How to Coach for personal, professional and team performance

Over 1,000 students enrolled for the predecessor of this course, previously focused on project teams only, with a star rating over 4.5.

The course has been expanded so much by The Growth Lab, that we have issued it as a new course with a new name.

There are two clear concepts that you need to take away from this course. You will

• learn how to refine and prioritize actionable goals for yourself, and you will

• learn to develop those around you.

You will learn a simple structure for setting ambitious, achievable, and actionable goals, applying this to yourself, and to others. With clear specific, measurable, aligned, realistic, and time-boxed goals (SMART) you can keep yourself on track and learn how to confidently say no to others when it is a reactive distraction. To get to these smart goals you need to Define them. Refine them. Map them. You need to be clear on what you want to achieve, validate the goal, brainstorm ways to get there, create a roadmap, then get specific and act.

We will take a fresh look at the coaching model of defining the Goal, having a Reality check, brainstorming Options, selecting from the options, and creating the Will to action. In other words, to apply the GROW model. We will explore the myriad of ways that you already unconsciously apply the GROW model in your life. Identifying the ways that you use the model enables you to refine your overall effectiveness in those areas and in many new ones.

Then we will look at applying these very same concepts to your team members, and even at a team level, to clarify goals and manage your way to achieve them.

You become an enabler, encourager, and leader.

Accelerating your team’s growth, commitment, and performance, is a promise we can keep when you apply yourself to the practices in the course and develop a mindset of relational leadership. Taking on a project team demands ‘rapid time to performance’ – little time for a gentle bonding ramp-up. You must Engage with each person, and the team, at a deeper level than you might think the old-style ‘hierarchical’ leader might. Then Enable, Encourage (give Courage), and give feedback regularly.

The course takes a contemporary view on leadership to engage, empower, and encourage your temporary team to achieve great things. An approach that is becoming known as ‘Humble Leadership’, and a Generative model of growth that embraces the multi-faceted nature of every team as a unique entity composed of unique members.

Join me as soon as you can. No time to lose.

Demonstrate leadership as a project manager as you engage with your team and individual members.

Apply what you learn every day from today onwards.

Through a deep dive walk through participative ‘lectures’, you will:

• Enhance your leadership impact

• Successful delivery of your projects

• Convert team potential to performance

• Increase the performance of your team

• Develop a holistic personal life improvement plan

• Create your SMART career development plan from the Talent Triangle

• Develop a Performance Improvement Plan for a team member or team.

An effective leader believes in the future success of the team members, and that entails believing that every individual starts with an ‘A’ because they are creative, resourceful, and whole.

Influential leaders believe they themselves are creative, resourceful, and whole, seeking every day to become more effective leaders through exacting standards, ongoing development, and empathy with their team.

Who this course is for:

• Leaders who are struggling to motivate team members who have hit a blank on problem solving and creativity. You will find an ‘in the moment’ or ‘on the fly’ approach to problem solving. Use this to help colleagues develop options to solve a problem before coming to you.
• Managers wanting to mobilise their organisation in pursuit of successful change, needing to use a coach approach to raising awareness of the need for change, using the GROW model to gain ownership of the process, and craft a way to move it forward.
• Project Managers needing to understand team dynamics and managing project teams to rapid high-performance, and dealing with poor performance, using the Coach Approach and the E4 Xchange Leadership Model of Engage, Enable, Encourage, and Evaluate
• People wanting to help others think through dreams, opportunities, and obstacles and find the next steps to take that will make a difference to their lives. This might include amateur sports people wanting to think through their sporting ambitions and need a framework to structure their thoughts, or school sports coaches (often teachers) looking for an easy ‘in the moment’ framework for assessing a point of improvement with a teenager. Parents wanting to speak to their older children about career choices in a structured way, or young adults moving out of home and having to choose between different options but struggling to frame the decision process.