Coaching Skills for Managers

This online course focuses on developing core coaching competencies that foster growth, connection, and high-performance within your teams and relationships.

Starts Sept 15th - Oct 20th

Every Tuesday 17:00-19:00 CET for 6 weeks

697€

797€

Why Coaching Skills Matter in Leadership?

Many managers were promoted because they were strong doers, problem-solvers, and experts.

But leadership asks for something more.

It asks you to communicate clearly, build trust, stay present under pressure, and help others grow instead of becoming the answer for everyone.

That shift is not always natural.

It requires practice.

Coaching skills help you:

  • lead without micromanaging

  • build trust and psychological safety

  • create more ownership and accountability

  • support people without rescuing them

  • navigate emotions and challenges with more maturity

  • develop a team that thinks for itself

This is the kind of leadership that creates long-term impact.

Who This Programme Is For

  • This programme is for:

    • managers who want to lead in a more empowering way

    • new leaders who want to build strong habits from the start

    • experienced leaders who want to move away from over-directing

    • professionals responsible for developing others

    • anyone who wants to communicate with more presence, clarity, and coaching skill

  • You do not need prior coach training to join.

What Makes This Programme Different

  • This is not about learning a few nice coaching questions.

    This is about building real coaching capacity as a leader.

    Over 6 weeks, you will develop the mindset, presence, and practical skills to have stronger conversations in real life, especially when things are unclear, emotional, or high-stakes.

    You will not just learn the tools.
    You will practice them live.

    Each session is designed to help you move from understanding to embodiment.

  • Because leadership does not change through insight alone.
    It changes through practice.

The 6-Week Coaching Journey

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.

You will develop:

  • Design Alliance as a core coaching and leadership tool

  • Listening skills, including Levels 1–4 of listening

  • Values awareness: understanding what matters underneath the issue

🤝 Week 2 – Connection: Trust & Psychological Safety

Theme: Emotional Safety in Real Conversations

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

🎯 Week 3 – Clarity: Powerful Questions & Awareness

Theme: Expanding Thinking

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

🌊 Week 4 – Clarity: Emotions, Perspective & Reframing

Theme: Shifting How People See Things

  • 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

⚙️ Week 5 – Strategy: From Insight to Direction

Theme: Moving Forward Without Taking Over

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.

🚀 Week 6 – Commitment: Ownership & Integration

Theme: Making It Stick in Real Life

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

How the Programme Works

  • This is a live online programme delivered over 6 weeks.

    Each session is 2 hours and designed to be interactive, practical, and engaging.

    You can expect:

    • short, focused teaching

    • live demonstrations (with guest coaches joining selected sessions to bring different styles and perspectives)

    • breakout room practice

    • reflection and debrief

    • tools you can apply immediately with your team

  • A deck of Coaching Cards for Managers

    As part of the programme, you will also receive a deck of Coaching Cards for Managers, designed to support you in real conversations, helping you ask better questions, create clarity, and guide your team more effectively even beyond the sessions.

    This is a practice-based learning experience.

    You will be invited to try the tools between sessions so that the learning becomes real and usable, not just inspiring in the moment.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

  • lead conversations without needing to have all the answers

  • build trust and psychological safety more intentionally

  • listen beyond words and respond with greater presence

  • ask questions that unlock insight and ownership

  • work with emotions without rushing to fix or avoid

  • help people move from stuckness to clarity and action

  • support accountability in a way that empowers rather than controls

  • coach your team in real, everyday leadership situations

The 2nd Online Cohort

  • Max Participants: Strictly limited to max 8 managers to foster deep engagement and personalized feedback.

  • Early Bird Price 697 euros until 31st August

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How long is each session?

    Sessions will last around 120 minutes, ensuring ample time for discussion and learning. The sessions are highly interactive and there will be theory, group work, practice and lots of feedback. We start September 15th, 17:00-19:00 CET and the last session is on October 20th. 6 consecutive Tuesdays :-)

  • Can only managers join this program?

    Not necessarily. While the course is titled "Coaching Skills for Managers," the skills and framework taught are highly beneficial for any professional looking to develop a coaching leadership style, improve communication, and enhance team performance. It is open to all staff and not strictly limited to management.

  • What if I can't attend a scheduled session?

    Don't worry! All sessions are recorded and available for playback at your convenience

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