Co-Active Coaching Skills
for Business Leaders

Relate to the People You Work With in a New Way

Learn to listen more effectively, ask questions that provoke and promote lasting transformation, and unlock the ROI only human-centered coaching skills can.

Co-Active Coaching Skills for Business Leaders gives you the core Co-Active coaching skills known throughout the world, and the real-time experience that makes them part of how you lead and create impact.

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Develop the People and Cultivate the Trust That Drive Results

Co-Active coaching shifts the focus from solving problems for people to developing the people and relationships that drive performance, innovation, and change.

This changes how you relate to the people around you.

And you can put these coaching skills to work right away, whether that is with someone you manage, a colleague, or a client. This isn’t another static framework or curriculum to commit to memory.

You’ll leave this course feeling seen and understood as a leader, equipped to bring the best out of yourself and those you’re entrusted to lead and influence.

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For Leaders Who Sense There Is More to How They Lead

Many people arrive here after other leadership programs, carrying a feeling that something was missing.

They already lead with empathy and intuition. What they have wanted is the language and the insight to name what they are doing, sharpen it, and use it with purpose. Co-Active Coaching Skills for Business Leaders gives you that. You gain a clear framework for the instincts you already sense so you can lead with them deliberately instead of hoping they show up.

Who This Course Is For

Co-Active Coaching Skills for Business Leaders is for those who want to bring Co-Active coaching skills into their existing role so they can lead, manage, and develop people differently.

People improving how they work with others

Anyone who wants to strengthen their working relationships.

Managers and team leads

Leaders who want to include coaching as part of how they lead.

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Individual contributors

People who collaborate across teams and want to work differently with others.

Internal coaches and HR

HR and talent development practitioners supporting growth in their organization.

Consultants and facilitators

Change practitioners who want to add coaching skills to their work.

Organizations

Teams looking for a focused development experience their people can apply right away.

What You’ll Learn, Day by Day

Three days of live practice on real workplace topics. You’ll move from a coaching mindset, to coaching skills, to the presence that makes those skills land.

Day 1 · Mindset

From Solving Problems to Developing People

Learn why leaders burn out solving problems they shouldn’t be solving
Recognize when to advise, consult, mentor, train, or coach, and become better at each
Listen at a deeper level, tuning in to energy, emotion, and what isn’t being said
Ask short, powerful questions that spark insight and ownership
See people as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, so you no longer have to have every answer yourself
Design alliances that strengthen both the work (role to role) and the relationship (person to person)

Day 2 · Doing

Practicing the Core Coaching Skills

Practice essential coaching skills like acknowledging, championing, reframing, bottom-lining, and making clear requests
Learn the three Co-Active principles of Fulfillment, Balance, and Process
Uncover what truly motivates people by listening for their values
Recognize the inner critic and help people move past it
Help people get unstuck by exploring new perspectives
Shape a full coaching conversation, from setting the topic, to exploring it, to taking action

Between Day 2 and Day 3: Coach a practice client on your own

Day 3 · Being

Presence and Expanding Your Range

Develop your presence as a coach, shaping how skills are delivered and received
Stay with people through difficult moments, like a missed promotion, so they can process what’s blocking them
Use the Creative/Reactive framework to notice reactive patterns, and choose a different response
Name the leadership quality you want to stretch into, and leave with a vivid way to remember it
Apply what you’ve learned to a real leadership challenge you’re facing
Coach for accountability so commitments turn into action, for yourself and your team

Elevate How You Lead

Co-Active Coaching Skills for Business Leaders

This is a three-day stand-alone course you can complete on its own. Many leaders and organizations take it as a self-contained development experience with no need for certification. You walk away with skills you will use right away.

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FORMAT:

Online delivery with learning platform support

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Duration:

3 days

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Includes:

Co-Active Foundations content plus applied workplace coaching skills

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Credential:

Letter of Completion

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Prerequisite:

None

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Investment:

$1,990

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Ready to Take Your Coaching Skills Further?

Coaching skills change how you work with the people right in front of you. For many leaders, that is where the interest starts and stops, and that is enough. For others, it opens a bigger question, and a desire to build on this experience with deeper training and the credibility of a professional designation.

That’s why we built Co-Active Practitioner for Business. Building on what you learn here, this additional three-day course earns you the Co-Active Practitioner (CAP) designation.

Bring Coaching Into How You Lead

Relate to the people you work with in a new way. Enroll in Co-Active Coaching Skills for Business Leaders, or talk with an advisor about the path that fits your role and your team.

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