Coaching Skills for Managers

Course Overview

The Coaching Skills for Managers short course is internationally accredited and provides a strong framework for managers and leaders to spark the best in individuals.

Coaching skills and conversations can evoke awareness within their workplace and empower others to maximise their work-related potential, performance, and growth.

This 12-week management course is internationally accredited (ICF ACSTH) and designed for managers who want to apply coaching skills in their current work contexts.

This course is a subset of SACAPs Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching: ICF Level 02 programme. The Coaching Skills for Managers short course carries 30 ICF hours and counts towards hours of coach education needed for a portfolio path application if you wish to pursue credentialing with ICF as an Associate Certified Coach.

Why register for the short course?

• Enable employees, and a company as a whole, to achieve their objectives.
• Develop self-belief, self-motivation, choice, clarity, commitment, awareness, responsibility and a readiness to act.
• Unlock potential and empower others to reach the next level of performance for individual and group benefit.

Time commitment per week

An average of 6 hours weekly.

• 2 hours for attending an online webinar
• 2 – 3 hours for pre-reading and class preparation
• 1 hour for the weekly multiple-choice quiz

Is this course for you?

This course is ideal for managers and leaders in corporate organisations, NGOs, government departments and small to medium-sized businesses.

Click here to download the course brochure.

What is coaching?

Coaching focuses on helping individuals or groups gain insight into what they want and what holds them back from achieving their potential. Coaching empowers people to set goals, learn to do things differently and achieve their aims while building self-management, leadership, communication and critical thinking skills. It is about both personal and professional development.

Dates and Registration

• Class of 2025 April: 7 April – 29 June

Learners are required to attend weekly online interactive classes as the short course is delivered online by a management expert.

Accreditation

The course carries 30 hours of International Coaching Federation (ICF) Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH). These can count towards the minimum number of coach training hours which can count towards the minimum number of coach training hours required to qualify as an Associate Certified Coach with ICF if a trainee wants to be certified by the global body.

What You’ll Need

• Current or intended supervision, management or leadership of others at work.
• Access to Microsoft Word
• Adobe PDF Converter
• Zoom Video Communications
• Google Chrome (recommended)
• Stable internet
• Textbook not incl. in course fee:
  • An introduction to coaching skills: A practical guide (3rd ed.) Van Nieuwerburgh, C. (2020)

What You’ll Learn

Over the course of twelve (12) weeks you will explore the following topics:

Week 1: Welcome and Orientation – Introduction to Coaching Skills for Managers

Week 2: Change Principles; Neuro Science Approach – Positive Psychology Approach; The GROW Model

Week 3: Coaching Skills Introduction Session

Week 4: Demonstrating Ethical Practice, Embodying a Coaching Mindset

Week 5: Co-creating the Relationship Part 1: Establishing and Maintaining Agreement, Cultivates Trust & Safety and Maintains Coaching Presence

Week 6: Co-creating the Relationship Part 2: Establishing and Maintaining Agreements, Cultivates Trust & Safety, and Maintains Coaching Presence

Week 7: Communicate Effectively: Listening Actively and Evoking Awareness

Week 8: Cultivate Learning and Growth: Facilitates Learning and Growth

Week 9: Coaching Conversation Practice and Feedback

Week 10: Observed Session Reflection: Group Reflection & Feedforward Session

Week 11: Working with Individuals in the Context of Teams

Week 12: Wrap Up – Continuing Developing Quality in Coaching Knowledge and Skills

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to implement coaching conversations which evoke awareness within your workplace. Learn how to empower others to maximise their work-related potential, performance and growth.

• Gain Knowledge 
  • Experience the core coaching competencies as defined by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
• Understand Coaching Models 
  • Learn how to apply the skills you acquired in conversations with colleagues and team members in the workplace.
• Practical Application 
  • Introduction to basic psychological principles which will enhance your understanding of human behaviour and what motivates people.
• Customised Feedback 
  • The opportunity to engage with an internationally accredited International Coaching Federation (ICF) coach in a group mentoring session after your practice coaching session.

Educators

Dr Svea van der Hoorn

Dr Svea van der Hoorn is one of South Africa’s very few ICF Master Certified Coaches (MCC). She teaches various coaching programmes and is an international faculty member of SolutionSurfers, Switzerland. She began her coaching career in response to the need to approach employee performance as a growth and development opportunity, rather than a traditional “carrot and stick” management style.

Her focus is on evolving an activity-based, embodied approach to online coaching training – combining the creativity, interactivity and dignity of humanity with the accessibility and convenience of technology. Svea contributes to coaching in South Africa by serving on the board of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), where she volunteers at local continuing coach education events and offers mentor coaching for credentialing, supervision and accredited coach specific training.

“My vision is that leaders and managers create environments with their people so that everyone comes to work ready and willing to contribute, rather than to merely pass time.”

Nicky Wilson-Harris

Nicky Wilson-Harris is an eclectic master practitioner in leadership development and growth with experience across all levels in Corporate, Government and NGO sectors.  Her work is supported by extensive training in both coaching and facilitation reflected in local and international credentials. Her current focus is to enable leaders to strategically and significantly extend their capacity to enhance performance and creativity in ever-changing environments.

She revels in working with emerging complexities, constantly striving to better understand diversity and effect positive shifts in cultural dynamics that are both agile and enduring. Nicky is a Certified Integral® and Ontological Coach. She is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) of the International Coaching Federation and as a Master Coach Practitioner of Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA).

“Love what you do, be good at it and make yourself easy to work with.”