The Art and Practice of Leaders Coaching Leaders

 
May 11 - 13, 2009
 
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OVERVIEW

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Leadership coaching is vital to today’s most successful organizations. In fact, around half of the top companies for leaders provide coaching to their most promising leaders. This program provides a perspective and best practice from Richard Leider, one of today’s top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance for leaders as coaches who want to get the most out of leaders in their organization, for now and into the future.

 

Revealing core philosophies, critical capabilities, and the insights of coaching success, this program also includes a practice field for trying on the concepts presented. This practical program is the definitive source in the region for those leaders who want (or need) to master the art and practice of coaching their leaders.


Objectives
  • Bring out the strengths in your leaders
  • Explore ways to unleash “the power of purpose” in leaders
  • Acquire a framework and tools for coaching your emerging leaders
  • Create a leader-as-coach mindset and capability

Who Should Attend
Leaders who want (or need) to coach emerging and high potential leaders in their company and accelerate their development. This course is appropriate for mid-level managers and directors who want to make their people more productive and more engaged, and thus improve the company’s bottom line.

Key Topics

  • Why Coaching Has Come of Age

  • Foundations of Coaching

  • Managing the Coaching Relationship

  • Applications


Teaching Approach

The teaching approach provides a mix of lecture, discussions, and working sessions. Small group exercises and one-on-one consultations with faculty and other participants will give you an opportunity to apply the tools and concepts of leadership coaching. A unique post program 90-minute teleseminar call helps reinforce the learning and successful application of the program concepts.

 


Tuition
$3500

Quantity Discount
A discount of 15% will apply to registrations of three (3) or more people from the same company registering as a group for the same specific program. Please note that this offer is contingent upon all registrants enrolling in the same program having the same start date. Program cancellations and program transfers affecting the minimum number of people enrolled in the program for which the discount applied will void the discount.


Cancellation / Transfer Policy


Location
Executive Education
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota