A brief primer and introduction to coaching. An easy to understand overview for people in business and leadership positions on coaching, what it is and some benefits.

1. What is coaching?

2. Management Styles
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Tell
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3. Management Styles
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Traditional / Safe
e.g. Teaching
Tell
Ask

4. Management Styles
Don’t KnowKnow
Traditional / Safe
e.g. Teaching
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Mentoring
Consulting
Ask

5. Management Styles
Don’t KnowKnow
Traditional, safe
Teaching
Consulting
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CoachingMentoring
Consulting
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6. Management Styles
Don’t KnowKnow
Avoid!Traditional / Safe
e.g. Teaching
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CoachingMentoring
Consulting
Ask

7. Coaching - what it’s not
It’s NOT helping
people up the
greasy pole…….
It’s NOT showing
people how to….

8. Coaching - what it is
Helping people
achieve what they
want…...
without doing it for
them…...
or telling them what
to do.

9. Types of Coaching
• Leadership Coaching
• Career Coaching
• Performance Coaching
• Coach/Mentor (Technical/Skill specific)
• Managing with a coaching style

10. Leadership Style
Visionary
Affiliative
Coaching
Democratic
Pacesetting
Commanding

11. Leadership Style
Visionary
Affiliative
Coaching
Democratic
Pacesetting
Commanding
What sort of Leader are you?

12. Leadership Style
Visionary
Affiliative
Coaching
Democratic
Pacesetting
Commanding
What sort of Leader are you?
What sort of Leader do you want to be?

13. So what do Coaches do?
• Work to a recognised coaching model & set
of ethics
• Mostly based on similar principles
– Skills/Techniques
– Steps
– Field (resources & structures)
– Principles
• Designed to move people from one place to
another
• From Reality towards Vision

14. The Skills
• Questioning
• Listening
• Reflecting
• Supporting

15. The Steps
• Vision
• Reality
• Plan
• Action
• Review

16. The Principles
• Trust the Client
• Partnership
• Creativity
• Presence
• Yes, And

17. The Field
• Resources
– Physical
– Intellectual
– Emotional
– Social
• Structures
– Rules
– Habits
– Beliefs
– Paradigms
– Roles
– Paths
– Procedures
– Identities

18. Some Tools & Techniques…….
• Nine Lives
• Switching Sides
• Ideal Self
• The Pit
• Values and Beliefs
• Visualisation
• Hero’s Journey
• Understanding Gremlins

19. Typical Scenarios
• What is it you Want?
• Who is your Ideal Self?
• What are you avoiding or resisting?
• Imagine yourself as your ideal future self - what advice
can you give yourself?
• What would you do with your life if you knew you
wouldn’t fail?
• What three things do you want to be different in your
life?
• Who’s your dream team?
• If this is a play, what role are you playing?

20. Typical Scenarios…..cont.
• What do you think will happen if you fail?
• Who is your role model? Who do you admire most?
• Who has some of what you need more of?
• Who do you want to become?
• How will you feel if you don’t go for it?
• When did you feel most powerful?
• What do you want to create?
• What are you not prepared to compromise?

21. “Without action, you’re dead in the water;

22. “Without action, you’re dead in the water;
Without reflection you’re sailing in circles (or
nowhere);

23. “Without action, you’re dead in the water;
Without reflection you’re sailing in circles (or
nowhere);
Without awareness of reality, you have no resources,
you’re sailing without knowing you’re in the middle of the
ocean;

24. “Without action, you’re dead in the water;
Without reflection you’re sailing in circles (or
nowhere);
Without awareness of reality, you have no resources,
you’re sailing without knowing you’re in the middle of the
ocean;
Without vision, there’s no point in setting off on the
trip at all. Why bother? Sailing is so risky and the marina
is, after all, quite safe!!! “

25. What are the benefits of coaching?
• To the organisation
– employee engagement
– productivity & quality
– organisational strength
– customer service
– retention
– cost reductions
– bottom line profitability
• To individuals
– working relationships
• immediate supervisors
• peers
• customers
– teamwork
– job satisfaction
– conflict reduction
– organisational
commitment

26. Hard to measure…..but using Feedback
• Productivity (53%)
• Quality (48%)
• Customer service (39%)
• Reduced customer complaints (34%)
• Working relationships (71%)
• Teamwork (67%)
• Job satisfaction (61%)

27. Hard to measure…..but using Feedback
• Productivity (53%)
• Quality (48%)
• Customer service (39%)
• Reduced customer complaints (34%)
• Working relationships (71%)
• Teamwork (67%)
• Job satisfaction (61%)
A Major Differentiator in attracting
and recruiting the Cream !!!

28. • Thank you for viewing
• If you want to explore coaching a little deeper then please
get in touch
• I have extensive experience in applying coaching and
teaching coaching techniques
• You are welcome to use any material in the slides (it
would be good if you were to attribute the source
however)
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