Program Overview
COACHING SKILLS FOR LEADERS
Transform Your Leadership Impact Through Evidence-Based Coaching Methodologies
Elevate Leadership Performance Across Every Level
Our scientifically-grounded programmes are specifically designed for organisations seeking to develop exceptional interpersonal and communication capabilities in:
- Emerging Leaders – Building foundational coaching skills for new leadership roles
- Team Managers – Enhancing team engagement and performance conversations
- Senior Leaders & Managers – Developing strategic coaching capabilities for complex challenges
- Executives – Mastering advanced coaching skills for organisational transformation
- Internal Coaches – Strengthening professional coaching competencies and impact
Research-Backed Foundation
Our leadership coaching programmes are built upon our internationally recognised Certificate IV in Business and Personal Coaching (11338NAT), integrating cutting-edge research from:
Positive Psychology
Three decades of research validates optimism’s critical role in workplace productivity and culture. We incorporate Martin Seligman’s pioneering work on learned optimism versus learned helplessness, providing leaders with evidence-based tools to enhance individual and team effectiveness while fostering resilient, high-performing cultures.
Neuroscience & Brain Dominance
Our programmes leverage advanced understanding of neurological differences in thinking preferences. As accredited providers of the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument, we help leaders recognise fundamental biological variations in team members, enabling more effective communication and collaboration strategies.
ICF Core Coaching Competencies
All programmes align with International Coaching Federation standards, ensuring your leaders develop globally recognised coaching capabilities that drive measurable organisational outcomes.
The REACH© Coaching Model
A Proprietary Framework Designed for Organisational Excellence – featured in recent ICF feature
Developed specifically for complex organisational environments, our REACH© model was created in partnership with a major health sector client requiring sophisticated yet scalable coaching conversations.
REACH© Framework:
R – RAPPORT Emphasis on building authentic trust and psychological safety, enabling deeper engagement and openness in leadership conversations.
E – EXPLORE Structured exploration techniques that uncover root causes, hidden assumptions, and breakthrough insights critical for organisational success.
A – ACTION Evidence-based action planning methodologies that translate insights into measurable behavioural change and performance improvement.
C – CLARIFY Strategic clarification processes that articulate compelling reasons and benefits, increasing commitment to identified actions and outcomes.
H – HONOUR Authentic recognition and validation approaches that energise team members and build confidence in their ability to achieve important goals.
Proven Design Principles:
- Psychologically Safe Environment – Creates conditions for honest, transformative conversations
- Outcome-Focused Methodology – Links personal insights to organisational objectives
- Sustainable Engagement – Builds intrinsic motivation and long-term behavioural change
Whole Brain Thinking Integration
Our Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument accreditation enables leaders to:
- Recognise cognitive diversity within their teams
- Adapt communication styles to match individual thinking preferences
- Leverage complementary strengths for enhanced team performance
- Reduce conflict arising from misunderstood thinking differences
- Optimise decision-making through balanced cognitive approaches
Research demonstrates that teams understanding their brain dominance profiles show 25% improvement in collaboration effectiveness.
Organisational Impact Outcomes
Participants develop capabilities that drive:
- Enhanced employee engagement through improved coaching conversations
- Accelerated talent development via targeted coaching interventions
- Improved retention rates through stronger leader-team member relationships
- Increased innovation by fostering psychological safety and exploration
- Measurable performance improvements across individual and team metrics
Investment in Leadership Excellence
Our programmes deliver immediate practical application while building long-term organisational coaching capability. Leaders leave equipped with evidence-based tools, proven methodologies, and confidence to drive sustainable performance improvement.
Ready to transform your leadership impact through scientifically-grounded coaching skills?
Contact us to discuss customised programme delivery for your organisation.
The FIRE UP Certificate IV in Business and Personal Coaching gives graduates the skills to implement coaching techniques, both in their professional and private lives. The course is designed to equip those wanting to coach in any context. The foundations for coaching are the same in any context and in Part 4 we equip you to focus on the context you want to coach in whether it be life coaching, executive coaching, health and wellbeing coaching, career coaching, leadership coaching, sales, compassion or mindset coaching.
Workshop Options
Many organisations large and small now understand the effect that a coaching culture has on their “bottom line” and are looking to introduce a Coaching Culture within their leaders. All too often though, there is little or no return on investment because the basic coaching skills they learn do not translate to results back in the workplace. They remain uninspired and unmotivated to change.
Our Coaching Skills for Leaders is a one-day workshop designed to introduce leaders and managers to using coaching conversations in the workplace. A participative workshop, it provides frameworks, tools and ideas that are immediately applicable. It provides participants with a foundation for greater understanding of themselves and others to build better relationships and provide more effective leadership and motivation.
Develop coaching skills to:
- Improve your ability to lead, influence and motivate others
- Utilise the power of questions
- Recognise how to build trust into any conversation.
Specially designed for Emerging Leaders and Team Managers.
Key Topics:
- Defining coaching
- The differences between coaching, mentoring, counselling, managing, and training
- How coaching skills can improve your ability to lead, influence and motivate individuals and teams
- The listening skills of an effective coach
- Building rapport and effectively communicating
- Asking quality questions
- Introduction and teaching of the REACH© coaching framework
- Practical coaching skills using the REACH© framework.
Staff members will leave this workshop feeling energised and armed with practical strategies to enable strong, positive working relationships that result in high morale and productivity.
ADVANCED TEAM COACHING SKILLS
Coaching Skills for Leaders of High Performing Teams is a two-day workshop focused on developing exceptional leaders and managers in organisations, so that people understand the key components of being truly effective, and how leadership is different to management. It answers:
- What are the qualities and attributes that make outstanding leaders?
- What is necessary to be a successful manager and leader?
Develop Team coaching skills using:
- Advanced use of the REACH© Framework
- Positive Psychology
- Whole Brain Thinking and Brain Dominance
Specially designed for Managers and Leaders of High Performing Teams.
Day 1 Covers the key topics from our Introductory Coaching for Leaders One Day Program:
- Defining coaching
- The differences between coaching, mentoring, counselling, managing, and training
- How coaching skills can improve your ability to lead, influence and motivate individuals and teams
- The listening skills of an effective coach
- Building rapport and effectively communicating
- Asking quality questions
- Introduction and teaching of the REACH coaching framework.
Day 2 Introduces topics to enable Leaders to use Coaching to optimise Team Performance through an understanding of group dynamics:
- Thinking styles and brain dominance – Learning how to communicate using a “Whole Brain” approach
- How Coaching makes a Team effective
- How to be more effective as a leader and manager in your communication
- Developing flexibility in your communication style
- Developing a culture of coaching in the workplace
- The importance of a solution focused approach in coaching
- Driving team performance by enhancing levels of optimism and resilience.
INCLUDES CERTIFICATION OF UNITS TOWARD THE CERTIFICATE IV PROGRAM
Specially designed for Executives, Senior Managers, Leaders and Internal Coaches wanting exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
Day 1 Key topics
- Levels of Learning
- What is Coaching
- Map is not the Territory
- The FIRE UP Framework for Coaching
- Fixed versus Growth Mindsets.
- The Inner Game
- Cognitive Realities.
Day 2 Key topics
- Energy Flows where your attention goes
- How the Brain Can Change
- Introducing Coaching Tools
- Thinking styles and brain dominance – Learning how to communicate using a “Whole Brain” approach
- Explaining HBDi
- HBDI Personal debrief.
Day 3 Key topics
- Thinking styles and brain dominance – Learning how to communicate using a “Whole Brain” approach
- Levels of Listening
- Building Rapport
- Introduction and teaching of the REACH coaching framework.
Day 4 Key topics
- Developing a Coaching Plan
- Active Listening
- NLP tools for building Rapport
- Powerful Questions
- As If Frame.
The learning is designed to be experiential and engaging with a practical application back in the workplace that results in high performing individuals and teams.
Coaching Skills for Leaders 1, 2 or 4 Day programs
- Customised to suit your timing
- In house face to face or online options
- Single or multi-day options available.
- Cost: Contact us for pricing information
