DBR Coaching Classes

We can provide the following Coaching training classes at your location or ours for groups of 10 or more. For more information or to schedule a class, email us or call us at 515-964-6346 or 1-800-362-2127, x 6346.

Click on a class below for details.

• Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Others
• Expanding Your Team's Capabilities
• Coaching for Improvement
• Coaching for Success
• Coaching: Developing High Performance
• The Empowering Leader
• Developing Others

Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Others

Overview:

Effective coaching aims to maximize the performance of everyone associated with an organization—employees, managers, customers, and suppliers. By applying coaching skills in the workplace, employees can motivate, guide, and support one another in working toward—and achieving—top performance.

This unit helps participants recognize daily opportunities to coach people they work with and provides participants with the coaching skills they need to bring out the best in everyone.

Objectives:

• Describe the role of a coach.
• Explain why everyone in the organization needs to be a coach.
• Describe how coaching can benefit themselves, others, and the larger organization.
• Identify behaviors that help foster a supportive coaching environment.
• Demonstrate a variety of asking and listening techniques to coach others formally and informally.
• Use the Key Actions to conduct a coaching session.

Class Length:

3 hours 48 minutes
By AG

Expanding Your Teams Capabilities

Overview:

With the right preparation, coaching, and guidance, teams can take on many tasks and responsibilities once reserved for supervisors and managers. In this unit, participants answer the following questions:

• How do we, as supervisors and managers, prepare teams to take on the tasks and responsibilities that we have been managing?
• How do we know when and if teams are ready to take on new tasks?
• What coaching and/or training do teams need?
• How do we set up tasks so that teams can take ownership of them?
• As teams work on tasks, when and how do we help them?
  
  As part of this session, participants complete an assessment of their teams’ abilities in six skill/knowledge areas and analyze the teams’ abilities to manage specific tasks. Using this information, participants learn when and how to set task boundaries and how to train, coach, and monitor their teams.

Objectives:

• Assess a team’s readiness to take on new tasks.
• Plan how to best prepare teams to take on new tasks.
• Set effective task boundaries with teams.
• Obtain a team’s commitment to take on new tasks.
• Coach teams as they take on new tasks.
• Monitor a team’s progress and take action as needed.
• Provide teams with the interpersonal, administrative, and technical skills necessary to take on new tasks.

Class Length:

4 hours
By AG

Coaching For Improvement

Overview:

Individuals need to take responsibility for addressing unacceptable performance or work habits that impact others and the organization?but leaders must know how to help them do it.

This course helps leaders conduct effective improvement discussions and provide the feedback and ongoing support people need to improve performance.

Objectives:

• Encourage others to take charge of improving performance and altering work habits, develop an improvement plan, and measure their progress.
• Prepare for and conduct successful improvement discussions.
• Handle specific challenges that might occur during such discussions.
• Foster morale and productivity by addressing performance and work habit issues in a firm, fair, and consistent manner.

Class Length:
3 hours, 20 minutes
By DDI

Coaching For Success

Overview:

Too many leaders can't let go of the misguided concept that good coaches help their teams learn from mistakes. They focus on improvement and correct performance after mistakes happen. In today's environment, organizations can't afford trial and error; they need things to be done right the first time.

This course develops leaders who help people achieve goals and avoid problems, a positive experience for themselves and those being coached. Leaders learn a proven coaching process ensure they identify coaching opportunities, provide needed coaching and support, observe performance, and measure results until desired outcomes are achieved. They learn how coaching for success benefits individuals, strengthens work groups, and supports company objectives and priorities.

Objectives:

• Prepare people to successfully handle challenging situations and tasks.
• Expand their team's capabilities, to give the organization a competitive edge.
• Delegate new responsibilities with confidence.
• Spend less time reacting to problems because they have prepared their work group to succeed.

Class Length

3 hours, 25 minutes.
By DDI

Coaching: Developing High Performance

Overview:

By helping others develop critical thinking skills to work through problems, ideas, and opportunities, leaders can focus on broader strategic issues while creating an environment in which high performers excel.

This course identifies techniques for developing self-leadership among individuals and teams.

Objectives:

• Guide others to think for themselves when taking on a new challenge or solving problems.
• Balance telling and seeking to provide support, encourage involvement, and share responsibility.
• Develop all team members?with individual styles, abilities, and motivations-into high performers.

Class Length:

5 hours, 15 minutes, or 3 hours, 45 minutes, Fast Track.
By DDI

The Empowering Leader

Overview:

Do leaders possess the awareness and skills they need to introduce, manage, and perpetuate an
environment where people are encouraged to think for themselves and assume greater responsibilities?

This workshop helps leaders identify areas to focus on in building empowerment in their work group and the organization.

Objectives:

• Encourage and support empowerment in their work groups.
• Find ways to make people?s jobs more interesting, motivating, and empowering.
• Help the organization become more empowering.
• Plan their continued development as empowering leaders.

Class Length:

5 hours, 40 minutes, or 4 hours, Fast Track
By DDI

Developing Others

Overview:

Developing organizational talent is a key leadership responsibility critical to an organization's
success. Leaders must foster and put into action shared responsibility.

This course provides leaders, coaches, and mentors with the necessary skills and a practical process to develop talent. It focuses on a leader's critical role before, during, and after the development plan.

Objectives:

• Ensure individual development goals align with organizational business strategy.
• Gather and review formal and informal behavioral data to determine a person?s strengths and
  development needs.
• Plan and conduct discussions on strengths and development needs, and measure and monitor
  development progress.
• Handle challenging development discussions.

Class Length:

6 hours, 30 minutes, or 4 hours, Fast Track.
By DDI