This programme follows a clear learning path:

Connection → Clarity → Strategy → Commitment

Each week builds on the previous one so that you develop coaching skills step by step, in a way that is practical, deep, and immediately useful.

🌱Week 1 – Connection: Foundation of Coaching

Theme: Safety + Presence

This is where the journey begins.

Before powerful coaching can happen, people need to feel met.
And before a leader can coach well, they need to learn how to be present without rushing in to fix.

In this first week, we build the foundation for everything that follows.

You will develop:

• Design Alliance as a core coaching and leadership tool

• Listening skills, including Levels 1–4 of listening

• Silence as a tool rather than something awkward to fill

• Acknowledgements that build awareness and confidence rather than empty praise

This week is really about one central question:

Can I be with someone without fixing?

🤝 Week 2 – Connection: Trust & Psychological Safety

Theme: Emotional Safety in Real Conversations

Coaching only works when people feel safe enough to think out loud, speak honestly, and explore what is really going on.

This week focuses on trust not as a personality trait, but as a leadership behavior that can be cultivated intentionally.

You will develop:

• Emotional awareness at a practical, usable level

• Skills for acknowledging emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them

• The ability to hold space at an introductory level

• The discernment between intuition and intruding

This is one of the most important shifts for leaders.

Many managers unintentionally overstep in conversations.
Learning the difference between sensing something and forcing it is a powerful skill.

🎯 Week 3 – Clarity: Powerful Questions & Awareness

Theme: Expanding Thinking

This is where the visible coaching shift begins.

Instead of leading through answers, you begin leading through inquiry.

You will learn how to ask questions that open reflection, create movement, and help others think more deeply for themselves.

You will develop:

• Powerful questions that move conversations forward

• Meta-view, or the ability to zoom out and see the bigger picture

• Greater awareness of patterns and what may be repeating underneath the issue

• The skill of staying curious instead of subtly leading the person toward your own answer

This week helps you move from solving to evoking.

🌊 Week 4 – Clarity: Emotions, Perspective & Reframing

Theme: Shifting How People See Things

Sometimes the breakthrough in a conversation does not come from a new action immediately.

It comes from seeing the situation differently.

This week focuses on how to work with emotions, perspective, and meaning so that deeper insight becomes possible.

You will develop:

• Greater confidence in working with emotions in conversations

• Reframing skills that open up fresh possibility

• The ability to explore different points of view and support choice

• Values awareness — understanding what matters underneath the issue

This is a rich and important week.

It is often where insight happens and where conversations begin to shift from surface-level problem solving to deeper transformation.

⚙️ Week 5 – Strategy: From Insight to Direction

Theme: Moving Forward Without Taking Over

Insight is valuable, but coaching must also help people move.

This week focuses on supporting action while staying in partnership rather than slipping back into directive leadership.

You will develop:

• Vision as a future-oriented coaching tool

• Skills for co-creating solutions rather than prescribing them

• AWGO, or articulating what is going on in the moment

• Dancing in the moment — responding adaptively to what emerges instead of sticking rigidly to a script

This is where coaching becomes more dynamic, responsive, and powerful.

It is also where leaders learn to move from control toward true facilitation of growth.

🚀 Week 6 – Commitment: Ownership & Integration

Theme: Making It Stick in Real Life

A great conversation means little if nothing changes afterward.

This final week is about helping coaching conversations lead to real ownership, meaningful accountability, and follow-through.

You will develop:

• Accountability skills that support growth without pressure or micromanagement

• The ability to build ownership in others

• A deeper capacity to hold the space through challenge, uncertainty, or resistance

• Integration of all the skills learned throughout the programme

This week brings everything together into a full coaching conversation practice.

By the end, you will not just understand the tools — you will have experienced how they work together.