Leader as Coach / Everyday Coaching Conversations — Pre-Work Resources

We are looking forward to supporting your development and building your capability to utilise a coaching style within your everyday conversations. Before your training module, we encourage you to read your programme briefing pack and then complete the pre-work for it.

The pre-work comes in the form of two videos (below) — these aim to start your development process by guiding you through a number of reflective exercises to help you prepare and gain the most from your training with us.

Pre-work video 1

This video helps you consider the key challenge that you will need to overcome to utilise a coaching style well; it then explores a model that can help you understand the unconscious influences that contribute to your style as a leader. It will then help you reflect on some critical questions that help you consider how a coaching style supports the impact you wish to create as a leader.

Note: the TED talk referred to in the above video is available here.

Pre-work video 2

In this video, we look at the situational nature of leadership — and how at their best emotionally intelligent leaders are consciously responding to the situations and experience of their team members in the way they lead and communicate. We then encourage you to reflect upon the way you communicate and lead your team currently and the different leadership styles you use. This will help you reflect on the purpose and intent in utilising a coaching style with your team members.