Coaching for Results
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What you'll learn
Evaluate employee performance gaps and gather data using 360-degree feedback, direct observations, and self-assessments.
Initiate professional coaching relationships and build actionable SMART development plans using active inquiry and collaborative dialogue.
Manage employee resistance, use the Confrontation-with-Care procedure, and align goals across distributed teams when coaching remotely.
Learn by doing. Perform guided, step-by-step hands-on activities on your own computer.
Skills you'll gain
- Mentorship
- Team Motivation
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Business Leadership
- Supervision
- Coaching
- Leadership and Management
- Leadership Development
- Business Communication
- Management Training And Development
- Team Management
- Strategic Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Employee Performance Management
- Communication
- Leadership
- Teamwork
- Team Performance Management
- Initiative and Leadership
- Employee Coaching
Details to know
January 2026
1 assignment
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There are 6 modules in this course
As a leader in your organization, you're expected to help people meet or exceed expectations and to help ensure productivity and profitability for the organization. Coaching is a leadership tool that is effective in improving performance and contributing to the goals of the organization. In this course, you will build a foundation for coaching, establish a coaching process, execute a coaching plan, and explore strategies for coaching in different business scenarios.
Many different factors can affect employee performance. When performance problems arise, people need to be supported to get back on track and do their jobs well. Coaching is an effective way of confirming an employee's value while improving performance. Coaching contributes to employee retention because it offers the opportunity to grow, provides motivation, and supports learning. Coaching also enhances the image and effectiveness of managers and supervisors. This course is intended for managers, supervisors, team members, team leaders, project managers, mentors, and anyone who needs to coach and provide constructive criticism as part of their job, and who wants to learn how to apply the coaching process to successfully improve the performance of others. In this course, you will: define coaching and determine how you want to coach, build a foundation for coaching, establish a coaching process, execute a coaching plan, and coach teams and coach remotely.
You're a manager or leader who has employees with performance problems, or who want to develop and improve employees' existing skills. To accomplish these goals, you need to know what coaching is and how you want to approach it. In this lesson, you will define yourself as a coach.
What's included
11 plugins
11 pluginsβ’Total 100 minutes
- Data Files and Setup for This Courseβ’15 minutes
- About This Courseβ’1 minute
- Lesson Introductionβ’1 minute
- Topic 1A: Define Coachingβ’1 minute
- 1A-1: Readingβ’25 minutes
- 1A-2: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Topic 1B: Determine a Coaching Approachβ’1 minute
- 1B-1: Readingβ’20 minutes
- 1B-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 1B-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Lesson Summaryβ’5 minutes
You've defined coaching and considered coaching approaches that might suit you. Before you can coach others you'll need to establish skills essential to effective coaching. In this lesson, you will develop core coaching skills.
What's included
10 plugins
10 pluginsβ’Total 81 minutes
- Lesson Introductionβ’1 minute
- Topic 2A: Evaluate Performanceβ’1 minute
- 2A-1: Readingβ’20 minutes
- 2A-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 2A-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Topic 2B: Develop Essential Interpersonal Skillsβ’1 minute
- 2B-1: Readingβ’25 minutes
- 2B-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 2B-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Lesson Summaryβ’1 minute
You have built a foundation for coaching by defining it and developing essential skills. Now it's time to initiate the coaching relationship with your coachee and develop a plan to meet your coaching goals. In this lesson, you will establish a coaching process.
What's included
10 plugins
10 pluginsβ’Total 96 minutes
- Lesson Introductionβ’1 minute
- Topic 3A: Initiate the Coaching Relationshipβ’1 minute
- 3A-1: Readingβ’30 minutes
- 3A-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 3A-3: Activityβ’20 minutes
- Topic 3B: Agree on a Coaching Planβ’1 minute
- 3B-1: Readingβ’20 minutes
- 3B-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 3B-3: Activityβ’20 minutes
- Lesson Summaryβ’1 minute
You've initiated a coaching relationship and agreed on a coaching plan with your team member. Now you'll want to move forward with the plan, make adjustments where needed, and finally, verify you and your coachee have achieved your coaching goals. In this lesson, you will execute the coaching plan.
What's included
14 plugins
14 pluginsβ’Total 98 minutes
- Lesson Introductionβ’1 minute
- Topic 4A: Coachβ’1 minute
- 4A-1: Readingβ’25 minutes
- 4A-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 4A-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Topic 4B: Adjust the Coaching Planβ’1 minute
- 4B-1: Readingβ’10 minutes
- 4B-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 4B-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Topic 4C: Verify That Goals Have Been Metβ’1 minute
- 4C-1: Readingβ’10 minutes
- 4C-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 4C-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Lesson Summaryβ’1 minute
You've coached individuals by implementing your coaching plan. Now, it's time to acquire strategies for coaching in other situations. In this lesson, you will coach in different business scenarios.
What's included
11 plugins
11 pluginsβ’Total 86 minutes
- Lesson Introductionβ’1 minute
- Topic 5A: Coach a Teamβ’1 minute
- 5A-1: Readingβ’15 minutes
- 5A-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 5A-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- 5A-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Topic 5B: Coach Remotelyβ’1 minute
- 5B-1: Readingβ’20 minutes
- 5B-2: Guidelinesβ’1 minute
- 5B-3: Activityβ’15 minutes
- Lesson Summaryβ’1 minute
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
What's included
1 assignment1 plugin
1 assignmentβ’Total 15 minutes
- Course Assessmentβ’15 minutes
1 pluginβ’Total 1 minute
- Course Summaryβ’1 minute
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