Coaching Conversations
A one day workshop for Leaders

Are you in a role where you manage or lead others? Do you want to add skills to your toolkit for growing and developing people? Perhaps your aim is to acquire the skill and confidence to coach others. This program aims to help you understand the value of coaching, to develop and deepen your coaching skills and learn how to set up a conversation for success.

Workshop Overview

I’m passionate about helping leaders develop “a coaching approach”, which is fundamentally about bringing coaching skills and a coaching mindset into how you relate to other people. You can use a coaching approach to help someone:

clarify their goals
be at their best
generate and explore new ideas
manage stress
develop their resilience/resourcefulness
debrief something difficult
overcome resistance to change

The program will help you to develop your coaching competency and practice your new skills in a safe and supportive learning environment. By the end of this one-day workshop you will:

Understand the difference between coaching conversations and other conversations you will have as a manager/leader.
Be able to identify when coaching is the right approach.
Gain familiarity with coaching models and core coaching capabilities.
Consider the importance of psychological safety and learn how to create it.
Learn how to use a coaching approach to raise awareness and commitment to action.
Experience coaching, from both sides of the table – give and receive feedback.
Learn how to use a ‘corridor’ conversation to coach.
Appreciate what is required to set-up a conversation for success.

Feedback from Participants

~ Workshop Participants, 2020/2021/2022/2023 ~

“Knowledgeable, expert presenter. Put everyone at ease and maximised our learning time.”

“Informative, practical and strategies you can implement straight away.”

“It’s a useful and practical training that can easily be applied to the educational leadership setting.”

“Provides the opportunity to not only reflect but problem solve from within and take action on issues that may consume your thinking, It provides clarity of thinking when you use the GROW questions and build confidence to know and recognise that you have the solutions within you.”

“Thought provoking, strategies you can use right now.”

“I really appreciated the way Julie provided a good balance of scaffolding but also being mindful that there were a lot of experienced leaders in the room, most of us having done some previous work around coaching. Thank you for creating safe conditions for people to feel comfortable contributing to the group and for valuing our input across the day. I also really enjoyed that there were lots of practical components where we were given time to practice coaching with a clear question framework to do so.”

“An Informative and empowering workshop that skills you to make a difference.”

“Thought provoking because it was subtly different to other PD we have done in this space. Even though I’ve done quite a lot of PD around coaching, this really made me re-reflect on what coaching is and isn’t, which is really useful.”

“Loved the mixed approach which allowed me to listen, learn and then apply the strategies. Really appreciated the time to practice and being vulnerable within a safe environment.”