Leader as Coach

  • 8 Courses | 4h 12m 4s
  • 13 Books | 32h 54m
  • 5 Audiobooks | 25h 4m 24s
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Coaching is key to developing talent in your organization. Learn how to implement the fundamental practices leaders require to coach effectively.

COURSES INCLUDED

Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
1 video | 4m available Badge
Coaching for Success
Coaching is about inspiring people to do their best and helping them achieve professional success. Coaching is a dynamic collaborative relationship between the coach and coachee in which they communicate and interact to help the coachee achieve growth, develop professionally, develop a healthy mindset, and improve their performance. Every leader must develop their own coaching style, but the process is made up of some fundamental practices that all leaders need to understand. Effective coaches help people to find their own answers. In this course, you will learn the key aspects of coaching and what qualities you will need to develop to help you become an effective coach. You will also learn how to develop a trusting coach-coachee relationship, as well as strategies for implementing coaching best practices.
6 videos | 23m has Assessment available Badge
Developing Successful Coaching Relationships
In a perfect business world, all employees would be ideally suited to their jobs, with skills and aptitudes fully aligned to their roles. In the real world, however, successful leadership requires coaching and mentoring. Leaders must foster a culture conducive to coaching and be capable themselves of stepping into a coaching role when it's called for. In this course, you'll learn coaching techniques for building dynamic and purposeful coaching relationships. You'll learn some coaching principles that will guide you in helping your team members exceed their preconceived limitations and reach their full potential.
8 videos | 50m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Leadership Insights on Coaching
Like a physical trainer, good coaches don't do the heavy lifting for others. Instead, they ask questions, assist in setting up action plans, and most importantly, build skills and self-confidence-even in the most reluctant of employees.
9 videos | 28m available Badge
Bad Apples or Bad Leaders?, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors talk about the root issues causing workplace deviance and explain how leaders can find the flash points behind workplace deviance.
3 videos | 10m has Assessment available Badge
Providing Feedback to Support Neurodiverse Employees, powered by MIT SMR
Through a collection of multiple articles, the authors share details pertaining to giving performance feedback to neurodiverse employees and ensuring that it benefits them in their day-to-day work.
7 videos | 21m has Assessment available Badge
Leadercamp on-demand: Coach and Grow Your Team
Leadership is about getting results with and through other people. In order to help your team members continue to stretch, grow and achieve, they need coaching, support and feedback. Coaching enhances your ability to guide and develop individual team members and cultivates a culture of continuous improvement. By understanding your team's unique strengths and development needs you can tailor your leadership approach to maximize their potential. Moreover, coaching fosters increased employee engagement and satisfaction, leading to higher retention, engagement, and morale. This program focuses on listening and questioning in different ways to enable action oriented, collaborative conversations. A distinctive feedback model is taught that supports intentional listening in everyday coaching conversations so that you can engage your employees to get the best performance possible. In the third installment of the four-part Connected Leadership series, Michelle Tillis Lederman, an executive coach, people expert, and CEO, will explore how coaching can enhance your ability to guide and develop individual team members and cultivates a culture of continuous improvement. By developing the skills necessary to coach and grown your team, you become a Connected Leader.
1 video | 55m available Badge
Leadercamp on-demand: Active Leadership Series on Feedback and Coaching
Leadership is a very broad topic, so how do you know how to be the most effective leader? There are several key areas that great leaders focus on to ensure they communicate the vision, motivate and manage their people, and get the job done right. In this third Leadercamp of a five-part series on Active Leadership, PMP and Managing Partner at Lemmex Williams Training, Merri Lemmex will touch on the highlights of being a great leader.
1 video | 57m available Badge
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leader as Coach Special Collection
In this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to manage being a leader and a coach at the same time, and if you possess the necessary abilities to lead and develop employees.
book Duration 53m book Authors By MIT Sloan Management Review

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Stop Rushing In With Advice
This article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about why your words of wisdom probably aren't worth very much.
book Duration 1m book Authors By Michael Bungay Stanier

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Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done
This title will be removed from the Skillsoft library on May 24, 2024.
book Duration 2h 16m book Authors By Dianna Booher

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Everyday Coaching: Using Conversation to Strengthen Your Culture
Through practical tips and examples, this book demonstrates the difference between conversations and true dialogue, and presents an easy-to-use coaching model you can use to practice giving feedback, making agreements, and guiding behavior.
book Duration 2h 43m book Authors By Lisa Nabors, Virginia Bianco-Mathis

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Neuroscience for Coaches: How to Use the Latest Insights for the Benefit of Your Clients, Second Edition
A vital resource for keeping up to date with recent scientific developments, tools and techniques in coaching, this book covers the latest neuroscientific research and, crucially, the ways in which coaches can use this information effectively and practically in their everyday work.
book Duration 4h 42m book Authors By Amy Brann

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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, Second Edition
Whether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project, or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, this book equips you with a set of coaching tools you can use immediately to transform the way you work with employees and colleagues.
book Duration 2h 39m book Authors By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire

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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership Development
Offering a review of strength-based approaches to positive leadership development, this book evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness, and considers how strengths can be reliably assessed and developed in their organizational context.
book Duration 3h 19m book Authors By Doug MacKie

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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and Performance, Third Edition
For anyone looking to develop their coaching and mentoring skills at individual, team or organizational level, this clear and accessible resource uses practical tools and best practices to demonstrate how to relate theoretical models to specific situations to gain real benefits.
book Duration 5h 53m book Authors By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham

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The Quick and Easy Performance Appraisal Phrase Book: 3,000+ Powerful Phrases for Successful Reviews, Appraisals and Evaluations
Whether you need to jump-start the review-writing process or are searching for phrases you can use verbatim, this book will help any manager quickly and easily select the best phrasing for any review - good or bad.
book Duration 1h 55m book Authors By Patrick Alain

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2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get Results
Giving you the language you need to establish compelling, actionable performance goals, this uniquely practical guide provides insightful strategies to accomplish more through others, serve as an effective career mentor and coach, and help your company stand out from the competition.
book Duration 2h 19m book Authors By Paul Falcone

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Feedback that Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message
This guidebook on delivering effective feedback shows you how to formulate, organize and communicate your message to help people learn and develop.
book Duration 19m book Authors By Sloan R. Weitzel

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Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, Fourth Edition
Providing an in-depth look into unlocking potential to maximize performance, this book describes and illustrates what coaching really is, what it can be used for, when and how much it can be used, who can use it well and who cannot.
book Duration 3h 38m book Authors By John Whitmore

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Coach to Coach: An Empowering Story about How to Be a Great Leader
Reading like a simple parable, this engaging book gives you an easy-to-use yet highly effective formula for becoming a better coach for your teams, in your business, and in your personal life.
book Duration 2h 17m book Authors By Martin Rooney
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance
Coaching and Mentoring provides the indispensable foundational knowledge required to establish a compatible coaching or mentoring environment within your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 10m 30s audiobook Authors By Richard Luecke

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Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, Fourth Edition
This audio edition explains clearly and in-depth how to unlock people's potential to maximize their performance.
audiobook Duration 7h 1m 3s audiobook Authors By John Whitmore

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Action Coaching: How to Leverage Individual Performance for Company Success
In this audio edition, authors David Dotlich and Peter Cairo share the same advice, techniques, and tools they've used to transform hundreds of managers and executives into first-rate coaches.
audiobook Duration 8h 19m 4s audiobook Authors By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo

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The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams
Combining research, interviews, and inspiring stories with the lessons that have earned the author the respect of the world's foremost corporations including CISCO, FedEx, Sprint, the U.S. Army, and State Farm, this audio edition shows leaders the skills necessary to be an effective coach and to build effective teams. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 5h 34m 54s audiobook Authors By Nathan Jamail

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Coach to Coach: An Empowering Story About How to Be a Great Leader
This audio edition is ideal for coaches, leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, educators, parents, and anyone wanting to bring out the best in those around them.
audiobook Duration 3h 58m 53s audiobook Authors By Martin Rooney
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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