Inner Game of Work, W. Timothy Gallwey

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LEADER AS COACH  

Organizations increasingly recognize that in a highly competitive, fast-changing environment sustainable success depends on people – attracting and retaining the best people, as well as supporting them to perform to their highest potential. A coach approach to leading and managing is a powerful way to address this challenge. Using our Adler Positive Change: The Leader as Coachprogram asthe foundation,we partner withorganizations to embed such an approach in their culture.
Who this is for:
Organizations that want to support high performance through a leadership culture that is

• more collaborative,
• engages employees more fully,
• is more effective at developing the future capability of employees.

Managers and leaders who want to become more effective at achieving results through people
Internal consultants and HR personnel who want to become more effective at supporting their business partners in designing effective solutions
Our Methodology
Adler’s three-part methodology ensures positive results. Our consultants and facilitators work with the organization on three key factors:

• Strategic positioning
• Clarify desired outcomes for the leadership development initiative
• Position the approach in the organizational context - e.g., linking to performance management model, strategic objectives, change initiatives leadership competencies, core values.
• Build leaders' coaching capability
• Assess current coaching practices
• Train managers through innovative workshops in a comprehensive coaching approach and key coaching skills
• Support managers in relating their coaching role to their other manager/leader roles
• Implementation support
• Follow up programs to ensure application (e.g., group tele-labs, individual coaching)
• Custom-designed support tools

Program content includes:

• The goals of coaching and how they relate to performance and results, learning and development.
• The role of a leader as coach, and how this relates to other leadership activities and responsibilities.
• The key factors that play a role in creating optimal conditions for coaching.
• The nature of the coaching mindset.
• Tools that support effective coaching conversations, coaching relationships, and coaching process.
• Skills practice for effective coaching conversations.
• Action plan for implementation continued development of coaching effectiveness

Program facilitators:
There are a growing number of Adler certified facilitators in Scandinavia working in partnership with Adler. For more information about the Leader as Coach program contact ole.petter@ottersen.no.  For more information about the Adler faculty (link)

Adler Leader as Coach Facilitator Training Certification Program

For individuals who want to become Adler approved trainers of the Positive Change: The Leader as Coach program, a Facilitator Training Program is available. This program is intended for organizations that would like to have their own facilitators trained and certified to deliver this program internally, as well as for independent facilitators and coaches who would like to qualify as a facilitator for Adler Strategic Partners.

Facilitator Eligibility Criteria: (link and reveal below)

• Good English comprehension and reading skills.
• Facilitation and training experience in organizations
• Excellent skills in facilitating training in organizations.
• A minimum of 60 hours of coach specific training prior to the start

of Leader as Coach training. (link to Adler certificate program)

• Background that demonstrates commitment to Adler values: