Leader and Manager as Coach

Helping managers solve their toughest people challenges with coaching skills

Managing people can be difficult. Most managers and leaders face these common frustrations:

  • Team members rely on you for solutions instead of thinking for themselves

  • A team where some people are engaged and motivated, but others seem to want to get by doing the bare minimum

  • Difficult conversations that feel uncomfortable, leading to avoidance or conflict

  • Performance issues that drain energy and are too difficult to address constructively

You might have tried coaching before or thought about it BUT:

  • It sounds a good idea but impractical in your fast-paced busy environment

  • You don’t have time to ‘coach’ - you are too busy and need quick results

  • You went on a course but it was full of theory and didn’t give you the practical skills, tools and techniques you actually needed to put it into practice

Our Solution: A Practical, No-Nonsense Leader as Coach programme that gives you the tools to stop solving everyone’s problems and start coaching your team to think and perform at a higher level

Key Outcomes for Participants:


✔ Get time back by developing independent, problem-solving teams
✔ Have more effective conversations, even the tough ones
✔ Reduce stress by shifting from firefighting to empowering
✔ Feel more confident navigating resistance and underperformance
✔ Build stronger relationships through trust and accountability

This is not just another leadership theory course - it’s a hands-on experience designed to be immediately applicable

Course Outline

25.3.25: Workshop 1 -The Coaching Mindset & Essential Skills (Full day in-person)

  • Why traditional leadership approaches aren’t working.

  • How to move from fixer to coach and create accountability.

  • Core coaching skills: building trust, listening, questioning

  • A simple, repeatable coaching conversation model for 1-1s, team meetings, and informal chats

  • Real-play coaching sessions with practical feedback

9.4.25: Workshop 2 – Coaching in the Real World (Half day online)

  • Coaching under pressure, how to make it work in fast-paced settings

  • Overcoming team resistance & changing old habits

  • Flexing your approach in the moment to get the best results

  • Building a personal action plan for real-world application

30.4.25: Workshop 3 – Coaching for Difficult Conversations (Half day online)

  • Coaching through underperformance & accountability issues

  • Handling resistance, defensiveness & emotional reactions

  • Live coaching practice with real-time feedback

  • Embedding coaching habits for long-term leadership success

Bonus: 1-1 Executive Coaching Support To Help You:

  • Apply the techniques to your unique team challenges

  • Get support on difficult conversations and resistance

  • Build confidence in your coaching leadership style

How to Book

Course Fee: £425

Includes:

  • 1 day in-person training in Belfast

  • 2 x half-day online workshops

  • bonus 1-1 individual executive coaching session

The Real Value To You : Less Stress, More Leadership Impact

  • Spend less time fixing and more time leading

  • Have clearer, more productive conversations (even tough ones)

  • Spend less time firefighting and have more time to lead

  • Feel more in control and less overwhelmed

  • Build high-performing, accountable teams - without micromanaging

Feedback from our last course

“It has taught me to be aware of how and when to take a directive and facilitative approach while remaining supportive and encouraging throughout. It allows me to lead by example and suggest expectations and outcomes which should be fulfilled by the team as a whole.

“A chance to reflect on my own practice and gain some new tools that can be used with my new team to empower colleagues and boost their skill and will. Excellent course content as well as interaction with Marie. A super course that I would and do highly recommend to colleagues.”

“The content is extremely relevant to many interactions and easily applicable. I’m listening more and giving people the space to articulate their thoughts and come up with their own solutions. It is helping me to be more effective in my communication and management of others.”