Strategic Coaching for Performance

Is there a gap between your direct report’s current performance and what your performance expectations are?

This workshop is designed to effectively sharpen your skills and build your confidence in coaching for performance using real world examples and situations.

Not only does this workshop cover the concepts of performance coaching but also reviews an underlying foundation that should exist in your business unit. This foundation consists of a vision, objectives, and metrics, that when in place can prevent the necessity for performance coaching.

This workshop will give you the tools to structure performance conversations utilizing a collaborative approach which provides clear feedback, as well as, helps to determine the underlying causes of poor performance when necessary.

At the conclusion of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Collaboratively create a vision and objectives for the business unit.

  • Establish metrics against which to measure the performance of the business unit and the individual.

  • Determine the root causes of a performance issues.

  • Plan for and initiate conversations to discuss performance improvement.

  • Structure and deliver effective feedback.

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Course Highlights

Strategic Business Unit Planning

Do you and your team have a common vision, clear goals and objectives and benchmarks to measure success?

In this workshop, strategic managers and their team develop a common vision, crystallize goals and objectives, and establish the metrics necessary to measure success.

Strategic Coaching for Performance

Is there a gap between your direct report’s current performance and what your performance expectations are?

This workshop is designed to effectively sharpen your skills and build your confidence in coaching for performance using real world examples and situations.

Strategic Communication

Are you able to communicate clearly with your team?  Does your team fully understand the direction of the organization and what is expected of them?

In this workshop, Strategic Managers will strengthen their leadership communication skills to better implement strategic planning, team building, problem solving, decision making, change management and process development with their team.

Strategic Delegation

Do you sometimes take on too much work for yourself?  Are you giving key assignments to team members who are not meeting your expectations?

In this workshop Strategic Managers learn to collaborate effectively with direct reports to build commitment and ownership of tasks and assignments. 

Decision Making

Are you and your team members able to make decisions both effectively and efficiently?

In this workshop, Strategic Managers will learn to prioritize the decisions that need to be made, gather relevant information and methodically weigh the options to achieve the best possible outcome.

Problem Solving

Do you find it difficult to solve problems because of lack of information, clarity and needed support from team members or strategic partners?

In this workshop, Strategic Managers learn to collaborate with their team to clarify a problem, document the evidence and build support to resolve it.

Strategic Team Building

Does your team lack the trust needed to work well as a team with shared goals and responsibilities?

In this workshop, we introduce "The Team Development Process".  This process enables strategic managers to select and develop team members, facilitate team cohesiveness and motivate the team toward peak performance.

Adapting and Leading Change

Do some of your team members cling to the old way of doing things?

In this workshop, Strategic Managers learn to identify the types of change in their personal or work life, as well as recognizing the phases of adaptation that they or their staff members may be in and how to turn change into opportunities.

Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Does your team have a clear understanding of the key financial metrics of the organization and what actions they need to take to ensure the organization’s financial success?

The objective of the workshop is to give participants a better understanding of finance. This course simplifies financial concepts and shares them in a fun learning environment.

Developing and Managing a Cost Center Budget

Do your managers know to plan for their headcount needs and create an overall budget that aligns with the organization’s and company’s goals?

This workshop will prepare participants to understand, forecast and manage their business/cost center’s specific headcount and budgetary needs to align with company’s current business imperatives and overall strategic goals.

Negotiation Focus

Are you and your team members effective and comfortable negotiating with others?

In this workshop, managers and individual contributors will learn how to develop a closer, more creative relationship with suppliers, customers, co-workers and partners that result in a positive impact on the organizational strategy, productivity, and financial results.

In­fluence Edge

How well do you influence others to get things done?

The truly effective team member, employee, or manager uses influence skills to achieve results, regardless of their positional power within the organization or team structure.


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