Course Details
Programme overview
The Become a Field Ready Coach and Mentor Programme is organised into three modules, with all elements being tailored to company requirements:
- Develop the essential skills, knowledge and behaviours to become an effective coach or mentor, and make a positive impact on personal career development and company performance
- Become a better and more credible manager and leader that can support members of their team to grow and succeed
- Gain more awareness of the aspirations, challenges, strengths and weaknesses of your team to increase their performance and productivity
- Get practical guidance on setting up a coaching or mentoring relationship to ensure its professionalism, longevity and success
By completing the programme, you will be prepared, well-equipped and confident in your role as coach, mentor and manager. Your teams will achieve more and you will progress more quickly and have a bigger impact on company performance.
What you will learn
The Become a Field Ready Coach and Mentor Programme is organised into three modules, with all elements being tailored to company requirements:
Provides learners with the foundation stones that they need to be effective coaches and mentors. This first module explores key topics and establishes the targets for the programme, including:
- What is coaching?
- What is mentoring?
- Establishing the relationship
- Setting and achieving goals
This builds on the first module and focuses on understanding and developing the communication skills that are at the heart of every successful coaching/mentoring relationship, including:
- Becoming a good listener
- Asking good questions
- Non-verbal communication
- Giving effective feedback
The final module looks at some of the more advanced skills that elevate individuals to be great coaches and mentors. There is a focus on building good relationships and understanding some of the challenges that coaches and mentors face, including:
- Building a good relationship
- How to challenge; how to be supportive
- Motivation and guidance
- How to approach different coaching scenarios
The learning experience
The Become a Field Ready Coach and Mentor Programme can be configured to your specific needs or your staff can join our quarterly scheduled classes. The full programme – which we describe below – is around 48 hours. This includes 20 hours face to face training/coaching, virtual interactions, assignments, assessments and follow up.
The full 48 hour programme is typically run across a 1 month period to take account of the time constraints of employees who need to continue to work through the training. That month is organised as follows:
Launching of the Programme
This will be done either at the training location of your choice or at one of our partner institutions; it can also be run online if required.
Face to face training for module 1 and assignments
There are around 5 hours of face to face training involved in the delivery of Module 1. Following completion of this initial training (which typically takes place over a single day), all trainees will be given assignments to complete.
Module 1 feedback, face to face training for module 2 and assignments
There will be a further 5 hours of face to face training involved in the delivery of Module 2. Trainee assignments in week 2 will focus on paired learning and practical experience-based interactions.
Module 2 fedback, face to face training for module 3 and assignments
The feedback and training session at the start of week 3 will be 5 hours. Trainee assignments in week 3 will build on Module 3 training themes.
The final week involves feedback sessions on the paired learning experiences, a group coaching session (5 hours) and the completion of a final assessment which is written and interview-based.
