Learn, practice and use the right tools and techniques to coach your remote team


Highlights:
• Assess your own strengths and weaknesses as a virtual coach
• Use the DISC® Profile to plan developmental coaching
• Implement the virtual coaching model to plan a virtual coaching session that really works

Key Competences:
• Remote coaching skills
• Active listening skills
• Using probing questions
• Adapting your coaching style
• Emotional intelligence
• Managing a virtual team

Coaching from a Distance: Developing Your Team When You Can't Be Face to Face (Live Online) is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.


6 Programme Modules:

1 - What It Takes to Coach from a Distance
• Assess your strengths and weaknesses as a virtual coach
• Explain the virtual coaching model
• Describe an effective blend of focus on coaching tasks, emotional intelligence, and coaching skills
 

2 - Developmental Coaching
• Demonstrate the ability to utilize the DISC®profile to plan developmental coaching sessions
• Demonstrate flexibility in adapting to different styles
• Develop the ability to pay attention to strengths and provide strengths feedback
 

3 - Performance Coaching
• Demonstrate the ability to use the DISC® model to determine the priorities of direct reports and others
• Demonstrate flexibility in adapting to different styles
• Summarize the virtual coaching model skills and behaviors
 

4 - Data Gathering for Coaching Virtually
• Describe ways to gather data for virtual coaching
• Create individualized “dashboards” to track the data
• Use the positive/negative (P/N) ratio as a source of data
• Use probing questions
• Identify EI behaviors that require coaching

5 - Applying Virtual Coaching Tools and Techniques
• Use the virtual coaching model to plan a virtual coaching session
• Assess your virtual coaching strengths through feedback
• Identify ways to gather data for individuals on your team
• Use a planning template to plan the session

6 - Techniques to Increase Virtual Team Effectiveness 
• Define virtual team stages/life cycles and coaching needs
• Define characteristics of effective virtual teams
• Describe ways to build trust at each stage of virtual team development
• Understand team emotional and social intelligence and the implications for team coaching
• Apply team coaching principles to real situations/challenges

You are a manager, team leader, senior manager or project manager. Your team is international and geographically dispersed. You want to learn how to coach them effectively from a distance.


Typical Participants:
• Senior Managers
• Managers