The Employers Edge

Train the Coach

       For Organizations Setting Up Their Own Mentoring and Coaching Program     

December 5, 6, 7, 2011 in Centennial, Colorado

At a time when company performance is coming under greater scrutiny, organizations are looking to successfully build an internal core of coaches to drive change, development and results both now, in the present, and in the future.  Leadership development through coaching is becoming to companies what a coach is to sports.  Coaching is one of the requirements for winning.

Many organizations use a “leaders developing leaders” approach in their leadership development.  Just having senior leaders play this role speaks volumes about their commitment to improvement.  But participation (making a presentation) and impact (facilitating a learning experience) are two different things.  The goal is to have a highly engaging learning experience that leads to behavior change—not a boring, death by PowerPoint presentation.  How can you optimize the participation of senior leaders and human resource executives so that less experienced leaders develop and grow?

Two factors influence the success of senior leaders as coaches: 1) having a simple framework that they can adapt to create breakthrough learning experiences, and 2) making them comfortable facilitating rather than directing others.

The Employers Edge Train the Coach programis a paradigm shift for many organizations.  It is a proven strategic mentoring and coaching process complete with 18 customized leadership modules which your coaches use as guides to help participants set goals and take action steps to acknowledge and implement the necessary behavioral changes required.  In addition, the coachee receives pertinent information from the modules to help them mentor and coach their employees for performance improvement and accountability and to provide a foundation on which to build upon.

Train the Coach – Core Workshop:    For future workshop dates and cities see the events calendar.  The Employers Edge Train the Coach – Core  Workshop  is a 3 day (18 instructional hours/18 SHRM CE credits) workshop that will prepare you and/or your managers to improve individual leadership performance.  In this workshop you learn:

• How to develop accountability in-house to achieve behavior change.
• How to implement a formal mentoring approach to support learning, retention, diversity, recruiting and succession planning.
• How to develop a results measurement system for coaching performance.
• How you can lead a “change initiative” through the organization.
• How to equip managers to successfully coach to the widely differing learning and communication styles of their direct reports.
• How to align employee goals with your organizations overall strategic plan and values.
• What techniques most successfully create participant ownership.
• How to open up a feedback path to the coachee’s manager.
• How to use our proven coaching and training modules as a management development plan to improve productivity and managerial success.
• How to hold direct reports accountable for results through our action planning guide.
• How to ask questions and challenge their thinking to learn, grow, and take action.
• How to use multiple assessments to identify the mentoring, training, and coaching needs of your people.
• When to engage the coaching, mentoring, training, advising, and directing roles.
• The place, time, objective, process and value of role playing.
• How to avoid making costly coaching mistakes.

 
Train the Coach - Core Agenda
 
Train The Coach is available to you in two ways:

• As an on-site program for your managers conducted by Employers Edge.  Through licensing of your in-house coaching, training, and managerial staff to deliver the coaching modules directly to managers, supervisors, and staff.  Modules may then be purchased individually as needed, or as a customized unlimited usage soft copy license fee that is customizable to your organization.
• As a “public” program at an Employers Edge, Inc. workshop facility.  Participants will be certified to coach managers in their organization around the Employers Edge, Inc. modules.

 
Train The Coach Module Content:

1. Self Assessment Based on the Module Subject
2. Module Topic Reading
3. Tips and Techniques for Immediate Implementation           
4. Case Study for learning
5. Action Plan for Accountability
6. Coaching and Training Exercises to Develop New Habits

 
Train the Coach Advanced  Workshop: For upcoming workshop dates see the events calendar.
 The Employers Edge Train the Coach – Advanced Workshop is a 3 day (18 instructional hours/12 SHRM CE credits) workshop that provides coaching instruction around 13 additional modules and follow-up feedback on completed assignments.  In this workshop you learn:

• How to conduct “group” coaching sessions.
• How to develop accountability in-house to achieve behavior change.
• Measuring results for coaching performance.
• How to conduct a series of workshops on Performance Management.
• Additional techniques to create participant accountability and ownership.
• How to deal with poor participants’ results and the negative coachee.
• How to use our proven coaching and training modules as a management development plan to improve productivity and managerial success.
• More questions to ask to challenge their thinking to learn, grow, and take action.
• The place, time, objective, process and value of role playing.

 
Train the Coach – Advanced Workshop Agenda 

Train The Coach – Advanced  is available to you in two ways:

• As an on-site program for your managers conducted by Employers Edge.  Through licensing of your in-house coaching, training, and managerial staff to deliver the coaching modules directly to managers, supervisors, and staff.  Modules may then be purchased individually as needed, or as a customized unlimited usage soft copy license fee that is customizable to your organization.
• As a “public” program at an Employers Edge, Inc. workshop facility.  Participants will be certified to purchase and coach managers in their organization around the Employers Edge, Inc. modules.

“The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.”