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Coaching and Motivation Skills

Sharing Your Skills and Expertise: How to Develop Others in the Workplace

One of the most effective ways to learn new things and fine-tune existing skills is through on-the-job learning. This is why smart organizations are mobilizing their experienced and highly skilled employees and encouraging them to become mentors and coaches. The coaching is usually accomplished one-on-one or in small learning teams. It promises both immediate and substantial improvements in performance for new and developing employees. As a bonus, manager/coaches become more productive as the skills of their subordinates and team members improve.

So what's the difference between a good learning coach and a great one? Great learning coaches have the ability to leverage their interpersonal skills and create a learning environment that meets the unique needs of all learners.

AGENDA:

1. Getting Ready to Learn
2. Understanding Learning Styles and Individual Needs
3. Step-By-Step: A Coaching Model and How to Use It
4. Transferring Your Knowledge, Experience, and Expertise
5. Boosting Learning with "Best-Practice" Skills
6. The Next Steps for Coaching Learners
   

FOLLOWING COMPLETION, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO:

• Assess the needs and learning styles of individual learners
• Adjust your coaching style to best address the needs of the learners
• Develop a learning contract with the learner that guides the relationship and results over time
• Use "best-practice" skills, including feedback and knowledge transfer, to enhance your effectiveness in your teaching experience

This timely workshop covers the essentials for becoming a great flexible learning coach--to peers, subordinates, team members, and other managers. It provides practical exercise, best practices, a self-assessment, and immediately applicable tools that will make a huge difference.

For a printer friendly copy of complete agenda

INSTRUCTOR: Virginia Weber Denny bio

SCHEDULE:

• Thursday, March 19, 2009 (Course #097JBJ) register
  8:30am - 4:30pm
  

Fee: $349 (includes instruction, seminar manual, lunch, certificate of completion, parking, and refreshment breaks)