Coaching Hub for Leaders: Develop Your Coaching Skills
What is coaching? Simply put, coaching is about creating and holding space for another person to do their best thinking. It is all about allowing individuals to explore their thoughts and find their own solutions to challenges they are facing.
Coaching is widely accepted as a core skill for leaders that want to create motivated, empowered, high-performing teams. According to research by Google, 'Be a good coach' was at the top of their list of behaviours for managers that got the highest performance from their teams. Other research has directly linked the amount of coaching an employee receives with their engagement.
Here you will find information on Happy's coaching programmes, resources and information so you can develop your coaching skills.
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Our Coaching Programmes
Happy is delighted to offer a range of one-day programmes to build your coaching skills step-by-step. We recommend that you start with our Coaching Fundamentals programme. Once you have embedded those skills, you can go on to choose which of our other programmes best suits your personal journey.
Coaching Fundamentals Programme
This one-day programme is aimed at leaders and managers that are either new to coaching, have not received any prior training, or have done an introductory session on one of our other programmes such as the Happy Leadership Programme. You will learn a simple coaching model that you can start using straight away with your people. During the day, you will experience what it's like to be coached, to coach others, and be an observer.
Practical Coaching Skills for Leaders
This one-day programme is aimed at leaders and managers that have already completed our Coaching Fundamentals Programme and would like to have more tools and models at their fingertips when coaching their people. You will further your skills, learning more questions and tools when coaching others.
Creative Coaching for Leaders Programme
This one-day programme is aimed at leaders and managers that have already completed our Coaching Fundamentals Programme and are ready to discover more creative ways of coaching their people. You will explore a variety of approaches to help people express and process their emotions and challenge their thinking.
One-to-one Coaching and Psychometric Assessments
Taking time to focus on your own development is crucial to your role and to your organisation. To be the best at work and be the leader you want to be, sometimes you have to take stock, reflect and grow. Our 1-to-1 coaching sessions are a confidential space for you to discuss your thoughts and progress, and experience what it's like to be coached.
Our range of psychometric assessments are a great starting point for self-awareness and learning what you would like to focus on, complimenting our coaching services.
Coaching Resources
The Art Of Coaching In The Workplace
When you hear the word coach it may bring to mind an authoritative figure who'll make you work in your pants but do not fear, modern coaching is very different.
In this blog, written by our Digital Marketing Assistant Dolly Osborne, we'll take you through some tips to perfect the art of workplace coaching.
Does Your Organisation Have a Coaching Culture?
In this video, recorded from his live session on Wednesday 9th October, Henry Stewart highlights the importance of coaching in the workplace - and asks, does your organisation have a coaching culture?
Testimonial from charity CEOCathy Busani from Happy coached me when I took my first Chief Executive role. Cathy was incredibly helpful at helping me to work out what sort of Chief Executive I wanted to be, how to have the courage of my convictions and how to deliver what I was best at to my charity. At no time did Cathy tell me what I should be doing, she very nicely forced me to work that out for myself, which is a much more effective way of learning.
