Connected Leadership: Optimising a Coaching Leadership Style Cohort 4

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Max Places:
12

Description

Additional Information

This module will be delivered online. For a place on this module you
must be able to attend all three workshops.

This module is part of the Connected Leadership Programme and we
recommend you apply for a maximum of two modules as each consists of
three half-day workshops which will take place online.

There will be pre work for this module which will be sent over prior to
each workshop.

Here is a link to the website with further information on the Connected
Leadership Programme: http://bit.ly/odpl-
clp

Module Information

This module will help established leaders to:​
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- Appreciate the powerful positive impact of a coaching style of
leadership and how it can elevate leadership practice​
- Deepen a coaching style of leadership practice for performance
management, career development, team performance, and collaboration
across The University of Leeds​
- Explore how to create the environment that supports a culture of
coaching and learning to embrace challenge and change in one-to-one,
team-working and collaboration.​
- Refresh, develop, refine and improve the skills required to optimise a
coaching style to empower, develop and motivate others ​

Workshop 1: Coaching as a Leadership Style

Established leaders will explore​:

- Different styles of leadership and how optimising coaching can enhance
a values-based leadership style​
- How coaching supports personal ambitions and those of the team,
department, faculty and the University of Leeds​
- Assess personal leadership preferences and how to balance challenge
and support effectively​
- Identify when, and when not, to use coaching ​

Coaching Skills - Established leaders will practice:

- Key coaching skills to provide practical tools to optimise a coaching
style and embed a coaching culture​.
- Listening to understand to actively listen with curiosity to
understand others’perspectives​.
- Powerful questioning to develop great coaching questions to help
others to deepen their awareness and understanding.

Workshop 2: Great Leadership Conversations

Established leaders will explore​:

- How and when a coaching approach can be useful, focusing on delegates’
own leadership opportunities and challenges. ​
- The benefits of a coaching approach for impactful leadership
conversations: performance, development, challenging conversations,
managing inclusively, supporting wellbeing and navigating change.​
- A practical demonstration of a structured coaching conversation to
explore and reflect upon – setting outcomes, exploring the current
situation, identifying options and encouraging action planning.​

Coaching Skills - Established leaders will practice:

- Structured coaching for development conversations to enable team
members and colleagues to fulfil their potential and be their best.

Workshop 3: Developing a Coaching Culture

Established leaders will explore​:

- Creating a culture of coaching and learning for teams, departments and
faculties​
- Identifying conditions needed for colleagues to feel empowered,
challenged and supported to take ownership​
- Assessing supportive and non-supportive behaviours and identify how to
shift to supportive behaviours to help embed coaching ​
- Collaborating effectively by taking a coaching approach to leading
teams and groups ​

Coaching Skills - Established leaders will practice​:

- Building facilitation skills to lead teams and groups inclusively ​
- Developing enhanced reflection and feedback skills to support a
coaching approach with teams and groups
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