Manager's Toolkit

Coaching & Mentoring

// Identify potential - Encourage development - Realise success. //

The best managers empower and inspire individuals for better performance.

Senior managers cannot do everything themselves. With so many pressures to face, you need to ensure that your teams have the confidence to lead as well. You need to understand how to generate confidence by personally being able to coach and mentor your reports. Give them the tools, let them take the strain, so that you can focus on some of the pressing, bigger issues.

Unleash your organization’s hidden potential; support and encourage individuals to do what they do better. Inspire motivate and develop your most valuable asset – your people.

What is Manager's Toolkit?

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Fee=£635 - Includes all tuition, course materials, lunch and refreshments.

Duration=2 days

Dates=9 - 10 November 2009 and 23 - 24 November 2010

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// A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are. //
– Ara Parseghian

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Who's it for?

Managers and directors wanting to deepen their coaching and mentoring skills. Those wanting to learn best-practice coaching to ensure their teams fulfill their potential.

What does this course cover?

Develop your understanding of effective coaching, mentoring and implementation in the workplace. Learn to facilitate the motivations, desires, skills and thought processes of individuals so that they can make real, lasting changes. Develop the performance, skills and potential of your staff.

The critical steps in coaching
The role of the successful mentor
Coaching and mentoring as development tools
Personality and learning styles
Using influence to gain commitment
Giving negative feedback effectively
Problem solving and decision-making
Turning goals and dreams into achievable objectives
Mentoring diverse groups.

How will I benefit?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

Identify where coaching and mentoring are most appropriate
Appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches
Know how to be an insightful and creative coach rather than just a knowledgeable coach
Understand how to respond to and enable change
Overcome barriers to effective implementation
Define, record and evaluate progress and deliver feedback.

How will my business benefit?

A more productive and fulfilled workforce
Help to develop your people – the ultimate competitive advantage
Low turnover of staff, hence reduced recruitment and HR costs
An organization committed to success.

What makes this Toolkit course special?

Practical and interactive sessions role playing real life scenarios
An interactive course where you have the opportunity to practically improve your coaching skills
The inspirational surroundings of the Heaton Mount Executive Education Centre to stimulate your creativity and give you new perspective.

Bradford University School of Management, Emm Lane, Bradford BD9 4JL
Tel: +44 (0)1274 234393 Fax: +44 (0)1274 546866 E-mail: management@bradford.ac.uk
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