Managers: the New Sports Coaches
Description
Managers need to learn to become player-coaches rather than instructors of people if they want their people and their organisations to be successful.
Comparing business coaching with sports coaching, successful coaching should be player centered and is fundamentally about developing people and creating interdependence.
Managers need to create a motivational climate in their teams to achieve the best outcomes. Managers should be reinforcing people’s confidence, expectations of themselves and challenging their staff to bigger and greater responsibilities, goals and achievements
Who should attend?
Any organisation that recognises they are not maximising the potential of their staff.
For organisations where their people are not performing as a team.
For organisations where their people are not performing as individuals
Who will the workshop benefit?
To help managers to adapt a new, collaborative relationship with staff
To encourage improved motivation, accountability and inspiration of staff
To generate a high performance culture within an organisationCourse Overview
This workshop can be made as theoretical or practical as required by the group and flexible in terms of needs. In order to enable learning outcomes to be achieved in a unique and fun way it will include discussion, debates and a critical exploration of:
- The current perception of manager and staff relationship
- What can we learn from a coaching approach?
- How are you being perceived as a manager of people?
- The fundamentals of “raising the bar”
- Whether we ready to take up the challenge!!
- Action planning toward a new culture
Course Facilitator
Rhodri Powel is a corporate performance coach with considerable workforce development experience in FTSE100, 300 and SME companies. He specialises in improving the mindset, communication skills and behaviour of executives by coaching staff, managers and directors in leadership behaviour, communication skills, business strategy and career planning.
Rhodri has a background in management and leadership consultancy, careers coaching and psychological confidence building, holding a Sportsmind “Mental Mastery” qualification, together with advanced executive coaching credentials. As a consultant and trainer he has been heavily involved in the management development and transition in the quarrying, aggregates and steelworks industries in the UK. Committed to the improved performance of the individual, his emphasis is on learning, action and implementation for real change.
