Watch Andrew Introduce Coaching Skills for Managers & Leaders - Fundamentals
Is This Course Right for You?
You're a mid-career professional who:
- Leads teams and seeks to enhance engagement and accountability.
- Aims to transition from directive management to empowering leadership.
- Desires to cultivate a coaching culture within your organization.
- Wants practical tools to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics.
If this resonates, you're in the right place.
What You'll Gain
A comprehensive, practical toolkit to:
- Differentiate between managing and coaching, applying each where appropriate.
- Conduct impactful coaching conversations that inspire action and ownership.
- Build a psychologically safe environment that encourages open dialogue.
- Apply structured coaching frameworks like GROW and OARS effectively.
- Enhance your listening, questioning, and feedback skills for better team outcomes.
Coaching Skills for Managers & Leaders - Fundamentals
Coaching is no longer optional. It’s a core leadership skill!
Andrew Jones is a seasoned executive coach with over 13 years of experience helping senior leaders and rising managers build high performance teams by taking an individualized approach to developing their direct reports, having better conversations, and growing their influence through coaching.
Now packaged as an anytime, anywhere fully online course, Coaching Skills for Leaders – Fundamentals distills the techniques Andrew has taught to hundreds of professionals across industries, business schools, and executive teams.
You’ll learn how to ask powerful questions, give feedback that motivates, and use simple, quick, effective frameworks in your real conversations. Designed for busy managers, the course is clear, flexible, and built for immediate application: one meeting, one conversation, one moment of change at a time.
If you’re ready to lead with impact, this course will show you how.
Example Curriculum
- Introduction (3:31)
- Is your Coachee Coachable & Ready for Coaching (6:12)
- Respect & Trust for Coaching (10:21)
- Transitioning into and out of Coaching Conversations (7:48)
- Key Skill Input: Contracting Process (8:29)
- Key Skill Input: Using BART & Holding Space in your Coaching
- Key Skill Input: Reflection after Coaching
- Virtual Coaching
- Introduction (3:27)
- Key Skill Input: Active Listening (20:06)
- Listening & Questioning: Practice 1
- Listening & Questioning: Practice 2
- Reflect & Revise
- Key Skill Input: Using Questions (12:33)
- Listening & Questioning: Practice 3
- Listening & Questioning: Practice 4
- Key Skill Input: Curiosity & Restraining Judgement (5:32)
- Listening & Questioning: Practice 5
- Reflect & Revise
- Introduction (3:48)
- Guide to Feedback (39:39)
- Feedback: Practice 1
- Feedback: Practice 2
- Key Skill Input: Using Silence in your Coaching (7:47)
- Feedback: Practice 3
- Feedback: Practice 4
- Feedback: Practice 5
- Key skill input: Using Empathy, Compassion & Sympathy in your Coaching
- Using Empathy, Compassion & Sympathy When Giving Feedback
- Moving from Feedback to Coaching
- Reflect & Revise
- Introduction (4:14)
- The GROW Method (21:36)
- Preparing to practice the GROW method
- GROW Method: Practice 1
- GROW Method: Practice 2
- Key Skill Input: Reframing (6:48)
- GROW Method: Practice 3
- GROW Method: Practice 4
- Key Skill Input: Using your Body in your Coaching
- GROW Method: Practie 5
- Reflect & Revise
- Understanding Motivation (3:26)
- Coaching for Motivation (12:44)
- Preparing to practice coaching for motivation (3:36)
- Coaching for Motivation: Practice 1
- Key Skill Input: Clean Language
- Coaching for Motivation: Practice 2
- Coaching for Motivation: Practice 3
- Coaching for Motivation: Practice 4
- Coaching for Motivation: Practice 5
- Reflect & Revise
- introduction (3:25)
- Feed Forward (8:48)
- Preparing to practice Feed Forward (3:29)
- Feedforward Method: Practice 1
- Feedforward Method: Practice 2
- Feedforward Method: Practice 3
- Feedforward Method: Practice 4
- Feedforward Method: Practice 5
- Reflect & Revise
- Key Skill Input: Solution Focus
- Preparing to practice Solution Focus
- Solution Focus: Practice 1
- Solution Focus: Practice 2
- Solution Focus: Practice 3
- Solution Focus: Practice 4
- Solution Focus: Practice 5
- Reflect & Revise
- Key Skill Input: Ending Coaching Well
- Key Skill Input: Terminating Coaching in Progress
- Key Skill Input: Supporting & Sustaining your Staff to Learn from Coaching
- The Personal Development Plan Method (9:45)
- Coaching for Development: Practice 1
- Coaching for Development: Practice 2
- Coaching for Development: Practice 3
- Coaching for Development: Practice 4
- Coaching for Development: Practice 5
- Reflect & Revise
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a waiting period between subscribing and getting started?
No. Once you have subscribed you get started immediately.
When does the course start and finish?
The course is an open program without a start and finish. You can subscribe at any time and pace yourself towards your own objective.
How long do I have access to the content?
You will have access to all the course modules, current and prior recordings & materials until your subscription ends.
How much time should I plan to spend on this course?
Your time commitment depends on your own learning objectives and by when you want to achieve them. We will encourage you to make a realistic, measurable plan and track your progress against it.
How do I buy the course for a friend, a colleague or my team?
On the check-out screen you will find an option to 'give as a gift'. Use this option and enter the email address of the person you are gifting to.
What happens if I cannot find the answer I am looking for?
Please contact us by email and tell us your question. We will send you an answer and build it into the course curriculum.
Can I book a private run of this course?
Yes, we offer bulk purchase discounts for companies groups and Business Schools, and we offer a live 2-day in person version of the course. Please contact us by email and we will set up a time to understand your objectives.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, tell us in the first 14 days and we will give you a full refund.
I still have questions. How do I contact you?
No problem. Ask Andrew anything by email