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Coaching Skills for Managers

In this Specialization, you will learn the essential skills to coach people for improved performance. You will learn from Executive Coach and UC Davis Instructor Kris Plachy, who has created and transformed dozens of teams through coaching. She will share best practices, research, tools and models for coaching effectively. You will learn how effective managers use coaching to establish clear expectations and accountability, how to assess performance, and how to conduct coaching conversations that build awareness and get results. Throughout the courses, you will apply insights about management and coaching to develop your own coaching practice and tools.

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Four courses

Managing as a Coach

Do you manage employees? Have you wondered how to get better performance out of those you manage? Are you unsure if you are communicating effectively with your employees? If so, this course is for you!

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Setting Expectations & Assessing Performance Issues

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. One of the most important roles of a manager is to ensure everyone knows the destination. The most effective managers set expectations and assess their employees’ performance against those expectations, and take a coaching approach to helping them get to the destination. That’s exactly what you’ll learn to do in this course!

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Coaching Practices

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In order for coaching to be most effective, it’s important to incorporate a strong culture of coaching and accountability into your one-on-one meetings. This course will teach you how to do just that.

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Coaching Conversations

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Throughout the Coaching Skills for Managers specialization, we’ve discussed many topics for improving coaching conversations with our employees. It is now time to put all of that theory and discussion into practice and examine great examples of common coaching conversations!

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Time

16 hours

Level

Intermediate

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Coursera

Institution

University of California, Davis

Instructor

Kris Plachy

Level

Intermediate

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