Leading and Coaching People to Higher Performance
Day 1
Leading Well
- Clarify what leadership is and what effective leaders do to help enhance performance
- Understand situational, transactional and transformational approaches to leadership
- Deepen your insight regarding your leadership and coaching style
- Learn to translate organizational vision into a clear vision and goals for your area
Day 2
Leading and Coaching for Development
- Understand the behavioral changes necessary to learn how to lead effectively
- Clarify what people need to exert maximum effort and achieve maximum performance
- Analyze performance problems (yours and others) and determine how to resolve them
- Determine who, how, when and why you should coach
- Understand the critical elements to successful coaching
- Different coaching methods: process, performance, problems and informal
- Practice coaching sessions
Day 3
A Coaching Boot Camp
- Becoming coachable
- Providing ground rules for the coaching conversation
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Developing a coaching action plan to address a real performance gap in your workplace
- Practicing key coaching steps with real-life scenarios
- Coaching the coach
Schedule
Evening before course — Optional dinner for those arriving early
Days 1 and 2 — 8:15 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. Session
Day 3 — 8:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Session
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 21 hours.
jcorkery@exed.wisc.edu