Your need

• You (or your people) need to enhance your ability to coach others. 

• You want to install a coaching approach in your team or organisation,

Background

Coaching is a powerful process that helps people deliver success in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life. This relationship helps give clarity to the situation, create a solution and help define the change to be made. Ultimately coaching accelerates the clients' progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choices they need to make.

This raises a particular problem that often occurs in a coaching – the potential imbalance of power can unintentionally negate the long-term value. Although the coach is there to support the client, by virtue of the fact that the coach guides the process, they can end up holding the balance of power in the relationship. This power imbalance leads to a dependent relationship where the client becomes overly reliant on the coach and doesn't feel they can move forward without any direct support. This dependent relationship in turn limits the client's ability to take responsibility for their actions and so achieve sustainable change. 

Collaborative Coaching offers an alternative approach. It is a supportive, practical and structured process by which the coach and the client work together to jointly chart a course to deliver the objectives. Collaborative Coaching helps the client and the coach be more aware of the process they are following and take joint responsibility for a successful outcome. So the client is not being 'coached' by the coach. Rather, it is a shared journey they both experience and take responsibility for. With this shared process the client chooses the focus of conversation and content, while the coach provides a guiding framework they jointly use. In many ways the coach is verbalising or making conscious the inner voice that we all have but often choose to ignore.  Collaborative Coaching seeks to offer a supportive, practical and structured process by which the coach and the client work ‘together’ to jointly chart a course to deliver the objectives.

Collaborative coaching is based on the idea of metacognition, or being aware of the process we are following while undertaking the process itself. The 2 day event helps people understand the high level processes that underpin an effective coaching process and then develop a coaching framework that is appropriate for them and the organisation in which they operate. 

Important - Please Note : This programme does 'not' focus on the development of skills (Rapport, Listening, Questioning, feedback etc).  It offers a blueprint for both the client and coach to follow during the engagement. A separate follow up programme is recommended once people have attended this event if they need to develop these capabilities. 

Hence the course is about helping to manage the coaching journey - not the relationship. 

Delegate Feedback

• It provides a straightforward practical framework to help ensure that coaching is thorough, beneficial and adds value.

• Learn in two days how to use a sustainable framework of coaching

• A must for all line managers

• Great framework to develop a personal coaching approach

• A great experience to have and invaluable tool to use

• A quick structured format to coaching which can help improve effectiveness

• I would recommended it as a practical coaching model for most consultancies and organizations.

• Interesting, enjoyable and very worthwhile if you have aspirations of becoming a coach - A must do.

• An outstanding framework to model an effective coaching process.

• An excellent opportunity explore coaching using a successful framework and tools.

• A must do for anyone who is serious about personal development.

• A major contribution to coaching safety!

Benefits to you and your organisation

• Development of a common coaching framework and language that can be used in any context.

• How to overcome hidden blockages and release innate and latent talent.

• Understand how to maintain control of a coaching process whilst allowing the client to own the content and structure of the engagement.

• Develop explicit coaching strategies and plans based upon the client’s needs and objectives. 

• Understand what personal biases impact upon your natural coaching framework and what compensatory strategies might be used to overcome them.

Who should participate

• People who are new to the role of coach and wish to enhance their ability to enhance and guide performance development in other people.

• Line managers who wish to install a coaching ethos in their team.

• People who have been coaching for some time and are looking for a structured framework.

• Companies who wish to develop a company wide coaching style that gives the flexibility of a generic framework without the limitations of a compulsory methodology. 

• Non organisation coaches (Sports coaches, Therapists etc) who wish to acquire a structured framework.

Source Material

Pre-Work

This seminar is based on pre-work as a way to provide participants with a solid foundation for understanding the Collaborative Coaching Framework. This is a pre-requisite for entry to the event as it introduces the 7Cs framework and provides the exercise that the participants need to complete of the opening exercise. 

The course pre-work is sent out approximately three weeks prior to the event to give delegates time to understand the material and prepare their work for the opening exercise. Each delegate should allow 2-3 hours to read the material, undertake any background reading they feel might be appropriate and prepare their personal question set.   

Course Content

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