Ignite Leadership Coaching

Leadership is a complex area, never more challenging than in today's environment.  Leaders are under pressure to deliver more for less, get the best from their teams and achieve at full potential. 

Ignite Leadership Coaching -
" dynamic business skills to kick-start effective leadership."

Coaching is a key leadership skill. Research shows that leaders are more productive when they adopt a coaching style; in one-to-one conversations, performance and team building situations. These leaders are more influential and encourage innovation and accountability.

This two-day workshop grows leadership at all levels; it is for supervisors, managers and leaders, HR professionals, coaches, trainers and anyone wishing to support and develop others.

Course Benefits

• Personal and leadership effectiveness
• Enhanced business performance
• People supported through change
• Teams aligned with business strategy
• Challenging targets achieved

Training in this programme is face to face and via four teleclasses. Participants apply the learning in the workplace, and grow their skills in a co-coaching circle, providing the best return on investment

Course Overview

• Leadership Coaching:
  • what it is
  • what it isn't
• Applying the leadership coaching model:
  • steps and skills
• Resourceful leaders:
  • identify and access resources for success

About the Ignite Leadership Coaching Course

Yvonne McLean is licensed by The Forton Group to be the Ignite Leadership Coaching provider in Auckland. The Forton Group is a specialist international leadership consultancy, whose leadership coaching services are used by major organisations to improve business results.

Ignite Leadership Coaching is accredited by the International Coach Federation, participants can work towards an internationally-recognised qualification in leadership coaching. Experienced coaches can use it for continuing professional development

 

Please contact Yvonne to discuss how Ignite Leadership Coaching can meet your organisation's requirements.

 

The Coaching Clinic ®

Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers.

A world renowned 2 day programme for leaders, managers and supervisors, to train them in using coaching techniques in their work relationships with immediate beneficial results in the workplace.

The Coaching Clinic ® is a two - day leadership programme designed to train managers, executives, leaders and supervisors to use coaching techniques in their work relationships, and thus gain advantages fo bringing a coach approach to managing people.

What does The Coaching Clinic ® do?

Designed by international coach training organisation Corporate Coach U, this programme provides a coaching toolkit of knowledge, techniques and practiced skills that managers and leaders can apply competently and confidently in their work situation to gain immediate benefits. Applying these skills spurs rapid development of individuals and teams, and fosters leadership potential.

Applying skills learned in The Coaching Clinic ® has been shown to

• promote innovation and accelerate results
• effectively develop and retain valuable organisational members
• improve organisational communication and team effectiveness
• deepen commitment to personal, professional and organisational goals

Who is it for?

Attending The Coaching Clinic ® programme will benefit anyone in a supervisory, leadership or team-based role in any kind of organisation, large or small.

What to expect:

During the two day programme, participants will discover and experience how to inspire others to believe in their own success, sharpen their focus, and make radical shifts to achieve extraordinary results, all through state-of-the-art coaching techniques.

The training revolves around a 5 step Coaching Conversation Model ©, with core key skills such as Contextual Listening © and Discovery Questioning © to drive the 'coach approach' successfully in applying to the workplace environment.

Participants will discover their own personal coaching style and recognise the styles of others, which provides insights into how best to communicate with their team members for rapid development

The two day programme is followed up with 1 one-on-one and 6 group coaching sessions to consolidate the learning from the workshops. The coaching sessions are structured to ensure that participants have an opportunity to put their new skills into practice, and give and receive feedback.

For more information and to discuss how this programme could benefit your organisation, please contact us or download PDF file on The Coaching Clinic ® and The Coaching Conversation Workshop.

The Next Level: 'Essential Conversations for Developing Others'

Graduates of The Coaching Clinic ® have asked us for a more advanced coaching programme and this is it. This builds on what was learned to greater levels of expertise, enabling managers to apply coaching confidently and adeptly in developmental conversations

Participants are challenged to raise their standards for constructive, collaborative conversations, and to explore the shifts required of them if they are to build a work environment that is truly self sustaining and focused on developing people.

Please talk to us about the next step in leadership development 'Essential Conversations for Developing Others" or download PDF file on Essential Conversations here.

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway®

Have you ever let fear stand in your way of fully enjoying life and taking advantage of all its opportunities? If your answer is 'yes', then this course is for you!

In the words of Mark Twain "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." You can choose to feed the fear or you can choose to master it

This powerful one-day workshop, supplemented by either six group coaching sessions or 3 short private coaching sessions (depending in numbers), will provide you with practical tools and techniques to overcome your fears. Learn how to develop and implement all of these effective emotional tools to help you 'Feel the fear and do it anyway ®' so you can move forward with your life in a focused, confident and positive way.

This proven life-changing programme will provide you with practical tools and techniques to overcome your fears, whatever they may be.

We will look at:

• lack of confidence and what lies at the root of it
• what you are afraid of
• the five surprising truths about fear
• letting go of the Victim Mentality
• making a 'no-lose' decision
• how to expand your comfort zone
• how to create more meaning in your life
• future steps

Programme Format and Dates:

Each workshop consists of the following programme format

• some teaching/presentation of concepts
• self awareness exercises on your own and in groups
• guided visualisations
• group discussion
• and coaching with an ICF credentialed Executive Coach(if the full programme format is chosen)

Strategic Direction offers scheduled 'Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® Workshops through-out the year - please see Yvonne's Coaching Blog (www.coachingblog.co.nz) for the latest dates and details.

People like to think that fear is not a suitable topic for staff or leadership development. In fact, the opposite is true. Fear drives so much of the inappropriate behaviour and poor performance in organisations. Talk to us about how we can tailor this material into a suitable development programme for your organisation.

Register Online for a public workshop:

For full details of the Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® workshop and to register please go to the Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® registration page.

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® is the registered trademark of Dr Susan Jeffers PhD and is used with her express permission. See www.susanjeffers.com

Planning for your Success

You plan for your business success. Why don't you plan for your own success? Don't leave it to chance - take charge of your own future. This empowering one-day programme will set the foundation for your success.

What do you want?

Gain clarity about what you want and how to get better results this year and beyond. This workshop will challenge you to set your business and personal goals with clearly defined strategies to then achieve them.

• Discover what you really want
• Set specific goals
• Develop strategies and a plan to achieve those goals
• Create some momentum for yourself now

What does the course cover:

The programme consists of a comprehensive 5 hour session (either as a whole day or as two 2.5 hours sessions) during which participants will learn -

• why setting goals is so vital to our success
• the reasons why written goals work and 'knowing your goals' doesn't
• the importance of making sure that your goals are in alignment with who you are
• tips and techniques for ensuring that you actually achieve your goals.

The course is very practical and ensures that participants leave with their goals in writing and strategies to set them on track towards achieving their goals.

Contact Yvonne to find out more information and to discuss how this course can be tailored for a team or an organisation's needs.

Syzergy 'Dare to Care' Programme

Radical Truth with Compassion.

'Dare to Care' enough about others to speak the truth; creating stronger relatonships, enhancing interpersonal skills and building a culture based on respect, responsibility and truth.

What do you do when people don't keep their agreements? How do you prepare for the most difficult conversations?

Dare to Care is a two day workshop for leaders and managers that offers a unique experiential programme designed to transform the way you communicate.

'Dare to Care' enough about the conversations and relationships you have in your workplace and in life to:

• speak the truth with compassion
• have the most important and difficult conversations
• speak up when something needs to be said
• deliver powerful and well received performance feedback
• demonstrate responsibility and encourage it in those around you
• challenge your perceptions and the perceptions of others
• speak with feeling, while maintaining your personal power and centre

About the Dare to Care programme

Dare to Care can be delivered to address four levels of need within organisations:

• deliver the most difficult and important conversations powerfully and honestly. For example: performance management, negotiations, staff terminations and client complaints.
• develop leaders with strong interpersonal skills, the ability to achieve bottom line results and inspire from the heart.
• create a culture of respect, truth, accountability and compassion, where speaking up is endorsed and encouraged.
• develop strong teams, executive groups, and boards, united around a compelling and clear central vision, within an environment of respect and truth which allows for diversity of opinion.

Who will benefit from the Dare to Care programme?

Dare to Care is an ideal professional, personal and social development workshop for senior executives, managers, sales people and leaders. The level of complexity of each module can be modified to suit the audience and the pre-determined outcomes. We can also tailor the 15 core modules within Dare to Care to specifically suit your organisation's unique needs.

Format of the programme:

Dare to Care consists of a two day Learning Module and a follow up Implementation Module -

• The Learning Module comprises 15 individual modules that are typically delivered over a two day workshop format, but may also be delivered separately, or as best fits your organisation's needs.
• The Implementation Module consists of 3 - 6 individual telephone coaching sessions held up to four months following the Dare to Care Learning Module. These sessions are to ensure the tools and models are used in a relevant and practical way and that the learning is fully integrated.

About Syzergy Dare to Care

The Dare to Care programme is developed by Syzergy, an international training and coaching company, specialising in enabling people to tell the truth with compassion. Strategic Direction Consulting Ltd is a licensed facilitator of the programme in New Zealand. For more details about Dare to Care click here for a PDF information file or to discuss how this can be tailored to suit your organisation's needs, please contact Yvonne.