A Coaching Style of
Leadership
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND SCHEDULE
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Next Intake - Fall 2024 - August 21, 2024
Transform your leadership style and unleash your team’s potential with our Coaching Style of Leadership Program. In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, where disruption is constant, managers must adapt their leadership to meet new challenges and the heightened demands of their teams. Employees now seek meaningful work, managers who care for them as individuals, ongoing communication, clear expectations, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. They prefer a coach over a traditional boss.
Our comprehensive program prepares managers for this shift with the immersive Boss to Coach Journey, designed to enhance leadership impact through strengths-based, engagement-focused, and performance oriented coaching techniques. Participants will learn to:
- Enhance Leadership Impact: Develop your unique leadership identity, build emotional and relational intelligence, and significantly increase your influence and effectiveness.
- Boost Employee Engagement: Align individual goals with your organization’s mission to enhance motivation, commitment, and satisfaction.
- Master Conflict Resolution: Identify and address the root causes of conflicts, facilitate constructive dialogues, and encourage open communication to improve morale and productivity.
- Improve Workplace Culture by Promoting positive behavior changes, setting clear expectations, and fostering inclusivity for a healthier and more productive environment.
- Optimize Performance Management: Implement effective performance processes with clear expectations, continuous feedback, and development plans to align with organizational goals.
- Foster Innovation: Encourage creativity, experimentation, and continuous improvement to maintain competitiveness and adapt to evolving market trends.
This program is ideal for managers who aim to accelerate performance, achieve measurable gains in key
business outcomes, and drive organic growth through human development. Join us to redefine leadership
and propel your team, organization, and future to new heights in an environment where everyone feels
safe, belongs, and thrives.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHIFTS
Boss
Coach
Double guessing self/ Imposter Syndrome
Confident leadership presence
Avoiding emotionally treacherous situations
Centered with a healthy relationship with emotions
Solving all the problems, giving all the answers
Supporting others to solve & prevent problems
Stressed about conflict and performance related conversations.
Confident in creating a safe space to have challenging conversations
Boring, unproductive meetings.
The coach approach to fostering constructive conflict and creativity in meetings.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The leadership development program is meticulously designed to transform participants from viewing leadership as merely a role to embodying it as a core aspect of their identity. Here are five distinct benefits for learners:
- Development of a Personal Leadership Identity: Participants will craft their unique leadership purpose, identity, and brand, allowing them to define their authentic style and philosophy. This personal groundwork empowers leaders to enact their vision and values consistently across all aspects of their professional lives.
- Emotional Intelligence: They become adept at recognizing and understanding their own emotions as well as those of others, which enhances their ability to manage relationships effectively. They use empathy to connect with team members, fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace environment.
They demonstrate excellent self-regulation, managing stress, and making thoughtful decisions even in challenging situations. - Learn and practice the basic coaching framework for coaching conversations, as well as five tough conversations: performance improvement, goal alignment, coaching others through conflict and navigating conflict, and behavior change.
- Fostering a Coaching Culture: Learners will gain the tools to nurture a coaching culture within their teams, promoting continuous personal and professional growth. This includes strategies for leading productive meetings, creating clarity, and directing focus toward developmental opportunities and creative problem-solving.
Each benefit is designed to deeply ingrain leadership in the learner’s identity, enhancing their effectiveness and fulfillment in their roles.
PROGRAM DETAILS
STRUCTURE AND HOURS
TOTAL PROGRAM HOURS – 52
DELIVERY METHOD – BLENDED: 9 4-hour in-person learning sessions complemented by 8 2-hour online practice sessions.
PARTICIPANT OUTCOME – Certificate
INSTRUCTOR
Marderé Birkill, MBL, CEC, PCC. Marderé has over 3,000 hours of professional leadership coaching
and is an experienced adult educator and learning facilitator.
INVESTMENT
$ 6,500 PER PARTICIPANT
INCLUDED
Online/printed workbooks and learning materials, and a leadership assessment.
TOPICS
LEADERSHIP IDENTITY
Moving from leadership is a job I do to leadership is part of who I am.
- My unique leadership identity, purpose & brand.
- My intended impact on the world
- My leadership manifesto.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Learn the ropes of leading and managing the most difficult person you will ever lead-yourself.
- Self-management, motivation, and grounding.
- Effectiveness & Productivity
- Emotional regulation
COACHING BASICS
Based on my leadership manifesto and the context of my current role and organization, the skills and commitment to build positive relationships with and within my team:
- Learn and practice several coaching frameworks and approaches.
- Learn to approach the conversation with curiosity, taming the advice monster within.
- Become adept at social intelligence, reading the room and helping others to regulate emotions.
COACHING CONVERSATIONS
Learn and Practice 5 crucial coaching conversations that make leading others so
much easier.
- Behavior Change – coaching an employee towards more productive behaviors.
- Coach another person through conflict – using a strong framework, help an employee plan to resolve a conflict with a colleague
- Navigate conflict – learn to analyze your role in a conflict and a conversation framework that resolves conflict with a constructive road forward.
- Goal alignment – help employees make sense of their role in the company in alignment with their professional goals for strong enangemnt and commitment.
- Performance improvement – a framework to empower employees to own their performance standards and the strategies to continue building.
COACHING CULTURE
Foundations of building sustainable high-value teams.
- Lead team meetings like a coach
- Develop the skills and capacity to engagement the team in constructive debate.
- Create space for critical thinking, creativity and innovation in problems solving
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- This program is eligible for the Canada Alberta Job Grant or other provincial equivalent in Canada. The program supports “soft-skill” development costs and will refund 2/3 of the program cost
- We understand that leadership practices must be compatible with the organization’s purpose, values / desired culture. Therefore, we spend time with you beforehand to adapt and adjust our content to support your desired culture.
- Sage & Summit would like to follow the actualization of the participants’ new and improved skills as they grow. We will follow up with the participants and their relevant supervisors at strategic touch points during the program and 3 and 6 months afterward to gain insights into what changes and leading practices continued to impact your leaders and teams.
- Our training always includes a leadership style/communication style assessment. For this program, we use the TRiMetrix HD and EQ assessments to help the participants understand their dominant behaviors, conflict responses, and EQ baseline.
- This program is available as an abbreviated one- or two-day workshop, which can be customized for your company’s specific requirements. The cost of the abbreviated program varies depending on the number of participants and the level of customization required.
