Coaching Skills for Project Managers

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 24, 2008 – Management Concepts Asia Pacific introduces a new course for project managers seeking to improve the peromanceof their project teams.

Coaching Skills for Project Managers is available in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabis and The UAE.

Coaching is a highly effective management tool and yet, only a small number of project managers adopt a coaching style when supporting their team perform at a higher level of proficiency despite an ever-changing business environment.
The unfortunate truth is that many project managers do not understand coaching and have received little or no formal training.
The benefits of coaching in a project management context are significant:
•   It encourages members of staff to think for themselves, which is empowering
•   Enables diversity by allowing staff to achieve outcomes in their own ways
•   Allows underlying competency issues to surface, and
•   Ultimately it will help the project manager to achieve better results
Who is “Coaching Skills for PM’s” for?
•   PM’s who are frustrated by the gap between their team’s potential and the actual results
•   PM’s who want more than typical command and control techniques to increase output
Three Phase Training
What makes this course different is that participants will not only participate in a 2 day class room session Co-facilitated by
Linley Rose – New Zealand’s first “Master Certified Coach” and
Rob Ashcroft – Internationally experienced PM Facilitator and Consultant
They will complete a pre-program assessment to define your dominant behavioural styles and then participate in two post program one-on-one coaching sessions with Linley
Phase I – Participants complete our online assessment
The assessment not only defines each participant’s dominant behavioural styles but will show them the positive and not so positive traits of each style. This easily understood report will be used for a self development plan and to set some objectives either to be coached towards or self monitor the progress towards the participant’s goals. The assessment will assist them create awareness and development plans in many areas such as leadership, communication, listening, change, sales, customer service, entrepreneurial skills and safety.
Phase II – two day training program
1.   The foundations of coaching - what is it, how it differs from the command and control style of management most of us are use to.
2.   The creation and use of powerful questions - when and how to use them. Effective ways of making requests to move the action forward. How to hold people accountable and still maintain rapport.
3.   Keys to effective communication - how our choice of words can make us effective or ineffective. How to dig deeper to uncover the meaning of the communication.
4.   The art of listening - what they didn’t teach us in school. How listening can help you understand and motivate the people on your team.
5.   Rapport - what it is, and three different ways of building it. What to do if you don’t have rapport with your people.
6.   Team development – how to mold a group of individuals into a team. The characteristics of effective teams and how to motivate them. Overcoming negativity in a team environment.

For Course details visit:  www.managementconcepts-ap.com

Coaching Skills for Project Mnagers is available in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabis and The UAE.