Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Leadership Success

Why Should You Take This Coaching & Mentoring Skills for Leadership Success Course?

The old rules of management and supervision simply don't work with today's complex workforce. That's why the most effective leaders in America now rely on the power of coaching and mentoring to lead their teams to success. Our skill-packed, one-day workshop, Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Leadership Success, is guaranteed to build your know-how in these all-important leadership skills — and to help you be a more effective leader, starting immediately.

You need expert coaching techniques to ensure your team members know their positions, fully devote their talents to the task at hand and support their teammates — pulling together to meet even the toughest goals. Through effective coaching, you'll build loyalty and trust by making every team member feel valued and appreciated. And you'll know exactly how to coach your underperformers, inspiring them to become strong contributors.

Effective mentoring is also vital to your leadership success, and you're guaranteed to learn it here. It's through mentoring that your most valued employees can realize their full potential and take their skills to the next level. Great talent is hard to find and harder to keep — and mentoring improves employee retention, because individuals who are growing and developing on the job are less likely to leave.

Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Leadership Success is the ultimate one-day workshop on this cutting-edge leadership topic. You'll gain tools, techniques and strategies guaranteed to solve tough problems like how to get employees to take the initiative, how to motivate team members to achieve even more, how to keep staffers' personal problems from affecting work, and more. In short, you'll learn how to build a rock-solid team of winners!

Syllabus

Essential Skills for Effective Leaders:

• Critical qualities all successful leaders must possess
• Your unique leadership style: Recognizing your strengths and limitations
• Understanding the crucial differences between managing and leading
• The secret to making your employees feel valued by you and the organization

Coaching Employees to Peak Performance:

• Keys to effective coaching
• How-to"s for establishing a more positive, energized work environment
• Different coaching approaches for different employees
• Better-than-money motivation techniques every leader should know
• Using the "Plan of Action" chart to keep individuals focused on the task at hand

How to Coach Underachievers to Success:

• Recognizing the reasons for employee mistakes and frustration
• How-to"s for handling the most common employee problems
• Steps for discussing performance issues effectively in a face-to-face meeting
• Understanding your role when an employee brings personal problems to work
• Holding employees accountable — the bottom line in dealing with underachievers

Mentoring Team Members to Take Their Skills to the Next Level:

• Why the best leaders are also strong mentors
• Essential how-to"s for successful mentoring
• Common mentoring mistakes and how to avoid them
• Empowering employees to tap their personal strengths to exceed your expectations
• How to plan for each employee"s continuous development

Communication Techniques Every Leader Must Master:

• How to give clear, precise instructions that can"t be misunderstood
• Steps to providing feedback that results in positive change rather than anger and defensiveness
• Improving your listening skills — and doubling your effectiveness
• What-to-say-when tips for lessening — or even preventing — verbal attacks
• Strategies for keeping the lines of communication open

Using Coaching and Mentoring to Create a Stronger, More Effective Team:

• Techniques for building trust and mutual respect
• Power tips for boosting cooperation and teamwork
• How to keep your team up and energized under pressure, crisis and change
• 4 ways to overcome the "inherited employee" syndrome
• Spotting employee burnout before it"s too late — and how to help