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The Manager as Coach Programme: Day 1

Audience: Academic staff, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Wednesday 29 January 2025

Times: 09.30 to 16.30

Key details: Participants must also be booked on "The Manager as Coach" Programme: Day 2

Target audience

All staff managers

Course information

Introducing "The Manager as Coach" programme, designed to cultivate a coaching approach that elevates team and individual performance and fosters an inclusive and empowering environment.
 
Do you ever notice yourself directing people precisely what to do?
Do you find yourself answering the same questions again and again?
Do you feel people are sometimes capable of so much more?

This programme equips managers with essential coaching skills to nurture talent, encourage ownership, and inspire excellence across departments. By embracing a coaching mindset, you'll get the best from your team members, empowering them to reach their full potential and contribute to our university's success.

As a participant, you will gain practical tools to enhance communication, build confidence, and motivate colleagues to solve problems and tackle today's challenges positively.

Learning will be practical and immersive, giving you the confidence to positively impact our culture and create teams where everyone feels valued and motivated.

Places are limited, so sign up for "The Manager as Coach" to transform how you lead and manage others.

Day 1: Developing your skills as the manager/coach
29th January 09:30-16:30

Period of practical application and reflection

Day 2: Developing your practice as the manager/coach
12th March 09:30-16:30

Aims and objectives

Programme Objectives

  • Define coaching within the management context
  • Review current approaches and develop non-directive approaches to managing our people
  • Enhance the communication toolkit for managers
  • Use coaching frameworks to facilitate productive conversations
  • Share success and overcome barriers for the manager as coach
  • Define boundaries and demonstrate ethics as manager/coach
  • Develop use of other coaching tools (meta-language, incisive questions, scaled questions etc)
  • Practice coaching with peers and receive feedback

Tutors

John Drysdale

Venue

Walter Bower House Conference Room 9

Course provider

OSDS
Email: osdscourses@st-andrews.ac.uk