When stepping into a coaching role, you address the central requirement of agile leadership: how to be an effective servant leader to your employees. The key to success is working at eye level with employees – supporting, partnering, mentoring, and coaching – with the goal of providing them greater autonomy, the ability to self-organize, and an environment that fosters inclusion and innovation. In the role of coach, you concentrate on leveraging the full potential of your team. You help your people to step up, learn fast, be agile, and take ownership for generating ideas and executing responsibly. Coaching rarely comes intuitively to managers. In addition to emotional intelligence, communication skills, and methodical expertise, the ability to master and reconcile the different roles of supervisor and coach is vital.
Find all the program information at a glance in our PDF download.
Who should attend the program?
Business leaders with several years of management experience who view coaching as part of their management responsibility.
Key benefits
Strengthening your leadership impact by leveraging the coaching approach, based on current evidence-based research
Exploring best practices for utilizing coaching skills in challenging leadership situations
Learning proven diagnostic concepts, communication techniques, interventions, and modes of behavior through practical application
Key topics
The role of the leader as an internal coach
Structures and processes in coaching
Coaching practice: communication methods, skills, distinctions between advising, mentoring, coaching, and consulting
Diagnostic frameworks of the coaching process
Typical forms of intervention and behavior for the business leader as a coach
Team coaching as a management task
Individual preparation for the role as a coach
Postgraduate Diploma in Management
This program can also be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum. Bring your career to the next level and gain the formal recognition of your professional development with this university-level certificate.
Leader as a Coach counts towards 3 of the 18 days necessary to receive the diploma.
The programs have been
designed – and will be led –
by ESMT faculty members
and ESMT visiting faculty.
They will also guide and
advise you throughout
your studies.
Executive Development Advisor and Lead Coach, ESMT Berlin
Jeff Hull
CEO Leadershift Inc., Director Education and Business Development, Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School Affiliate, Clinical Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
