Succession Planning Program

Theme: Maximizing the Results and Professional Development of Team Members.

Course Duration: 2 Days

Program Overview:

The aim of this training is to provide participants with an understanding of the theory and practice of people development through mentoring and coaching.

Participants will understand the role of mentoring in supporting and guiding individuals to achieve outcomes and the benefits of creating a coaching culture within transition programmes. Participants will explore the values, behaviors, skills and capabilities that will enable them to understand and develop themselves and others.

Who Should Attend:

All staff

Training Objectives:

To provide participants with an understanding of the purpose, value and nature of mentoring and coaching in transition programmes;
To enable participants to explore the role of the mentor and the nature of the mentoring relationship;
To introduce the core principles of coaching for performance and to develop key skills and competencies;
To enable participants to experience the impact of being coached and of coaching others.

Course Content:

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1. Introduction

The nature and purpose of mentoring and coaching

Key principles – how to coach and be coached
Making it personal – characteristics of good coaches and mentors

2. Coaching fundamentals

The roles of the coach and the coachee

Coaching presuppositions – the foundations of coaching for performance
Core skills – trust, rapport, listening, language and questioning, supporting

3. Building trust and rapport

The nature of rapport – giving and receiving trust

Highly effective listening
Exercise – practicing listening skills

4. Developing insight, outcomes and setting goals

The language of coaching

The Grow model
Developing well-formed outcomes

5. Finding resources, giving feedback and resolving conflict

Enabling the resourceful coachee

Resolving conflict
Exercise – Giving excellent feedback

6. Levels of coaching

Levels of learning

Working with values and beliefs
High performance coaching in virtual teams
Exercise – anchoring and enabling a high-performance state

7. Mentoring fundamentals

What do you want from a mentor?

What can you offer as a mentor?
Building a mentoring network
Exercise – identifying your personal mentors

8. Building a coaching and mentoring culture

How a coaching and mentoring culture enables value
Being an exemplar
Establishing coaching and mentoring beliefs and behaviours in virtual and multi-cultural teams

9. Making it happen

Individual action planning; syndicate discussion.

What will we do differently? How will we make it happen?

Training Methodology:

Mini lectures
Role plays
Brain storming
Question and answer sessions
Video presentations
Demonstrations by the trainer
Practical group activities
Case studies