Empower Your People to Coach Themselves!
(A Budget-Friendly Performance Solution)
ENGAGE your people in the benefits of coaching—and still make budget!
PUT them on a sustainable winning path where they will:
- LEARN TO COACH themselves—and their line reports!
- PRACTICE a repeatable process, one that they can carry forward!
- ACHIEVE their personal development goals!
- BECOME better colleagues, partners, leaders!
This budget-friendly performance solution is brought to you by
What does self-coaching include?
For the sponsor:
1 x Opportunity for stakeholder input
2+ x Progress reports
1 x Outcomes evaluation report
For the delegate:
1 x Kick-off webinar
3 x Months of engagement
12 x Self-guided sessions
4 x Sections to each session
1 x Learning theme per session
2 x Opportunities to submit progress
12 x Opportunities to ask a question
44 x Coaching questions to keep for ongoing use
Is self-coaching a good fit for us?
Here are some check questions to help you evaluate whether this program is a good fit for your organization:
- Do your people need more than just a kick-in-the-pants motivational talk, yet your budget won’t stretch to cover whole-day workshops or one-on-one coaching programs?
- Do you have a need to elevate people’s levels of work and performance beyond what your budget will allow?
- Does your organization offer coaching for senior executives, and recognize a need to take it deeper into the organization—but current options would all break the bank?
- Do you wish to create a coaching style of leadership on a broad scale in your organization, and to integrate deep learning with action learning through live workshops and webinars?
- Would you like to create a developmental (“personal growth”) culture in your organization and find an innovative way to achieve that?
- Would you like to make a broadly reachable, but also optional, personal development program available to your people?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then you’re in the right place.
Also ask yourself:
- Do you have people who were promoted and now find themselves struggling to manage people who were once their peers?
- Are your leaders mostly appointed on the basis of technical expertise, performance or experience? In which case, are they sufficiently equipped to deal with the people aspect?
- Have you identified your top talent, those who are destined for greater things at your company, and you want to get them ready for their next-level leadership role?
All of these challenges are addressed by this program. In other words, your organization will benefit from this program if you answered yes to any or all of the above questions.
How are the sessions structured?
The Self-Coaching Online program consists of 12 sessions which delegates can conduct in their own time.
Each session consists of four sections, which are detailed below:
Session Check-In
5-10 mins
The session check-in will enable the delegate to build a bridge from the previous session and to prepare for the current session.
The check-in for each session will consist of:
- A review of their understanding and application of the learning from the previous session during the time since they completed that session;
- A brief introduction to the session theme, and an exercise for them to prepare themselves for that theme’s introduction so they can get the most out of it.
Session Theme
20-30 mins
A foundation theme is introduced with each session through a combination of lecture-style video, audioslide, downloadable PDF* notes and exercise sheets. Examples of session themes include: Working with Values; Your Power to Create; Making Agreements; The Flow State; etc (scroll down for the full list).
- Each theme will provide an empowering perspective and/or a tool that delegates can work with;
- Each session’s theme will build on past themes, so that they’ll have a new body of knowledge and a wider range of awareness when they’re finished.
* There will always be an audio option available so delegates can listen instead of read if that’s their preference.
Self-Coaching
10-20 minutes
There are two guided self-coaching processes within each session:
- The first self-coaching process is based on the aforementioned session theme. Delegates will be guided by a short self-reflection questionnaire.
- The second self-coaching process within each session is designed to move delegates forward on their main goals, which they will set at the beginning of the program. For this part, they’ll be guided by a process outline and they’ll refer to a set of coaching questions that they’ll be provided with early in the program.
Session Check-Out
5-10 mins
Each session will end with a short review:
- Review the learning from the session. Delegates will be guided by a set of questions.
- Get the specifics of the homework exercise.
“This course was transformational. I had many a-ha moments along the way as Neil delivered truths and tools in a digestible and relatable way that allowed me to see my development areas as clearly as I saw the possible solutions. Thank you Neil for this programme, and for your style, your energy and your wit. That it’s an online, self-coaching model didn’t take anything away at all because of the clarity in every module. I feel empowered by what I’ve learned and encouraged by how practical and immediately transferrable to my reality the course was.” — Shameela Winston
Yes, I’m interested. How can I find out more?
Can I see a sample video?
Each session within the Self-Coaching Online program contains at least one instruction video related to that session’s theme. Below is a sample video, which happens to also be the introduction video for Session 1. The theme for this session is Getting Motivated.
Can I hear a sample audio?
Below is a sample audio track. It’s the “Monitor & Record” homework instructions for Session 4. The theme for this session is Your Power to Create. Each downloadable PDF document is accompanied by an audio track, which enables delegates to listen instead of read.
Can I see a sample of the session notes?
This link will take you to a sample session (Session 3 from the Executive course) where you can download this pdf file. The theme for this session is Working with Values.
What are the session themes?
Session |
Main Theme
|
Executive Application
|
---|---|---|
1 |
Getting MotivatedGet to grips with the fact that you can get motivated at any time and in any situation—by a simple decision! Discover what that decision is, and how you can consciously and deliberately get yourself into the state of optimal experience (also known as the “flow” state). |
Executive application: People, Vision & Purpose Motivating yourself is one thing; motivating others, another. With this lesson, you’ll learn—or be reminded—how to motivate people by presenting a vision and appealing to their sense of purpose. |
2 |
Know YourselfNail the question of your personality strengths and weaknesses using the enneagram as a lens. Discover or confirm which activities are more likely to get you into that peak state of experience and performance. Conversely, discover or confirm what your “worst thing in the world” is, and just how much that runs your life! |
Executive application: Treat People as They Are Just because you like to do things a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else should! Learn to recognise, accept and even celebrate the diverse range of behavioural styles in your team. |
3 |
Working with ValuesTake a look under the hood at how your personal set of values drives every decision you’ll ever make. Armed with this information, you’ll be able to adjust your life path to one that’s in line with your intentions. It might also keep you out of trouble for becoming too obsessed with one thing—like work, for example! |
Executive application: Leading through Values Now that you know how important people’s sets of values are to them, learn how you can apply that as a leader: firstly, as an entry point for getting to know your people; secondly, as a means to motivate them. |
4 |
Your Power to CreateDig deep into the extraordinary power that you have as a human being to create and direct the course of your life, using language. Once you get this, you’ll be inspired to use your words more consciously and with greater precision—and you’ll know how. You’ll also have a new working definition of integrity. |
Executive application: Creating A Culture of Integrity Armed with your new understanding of the power of language, and of integrity, explore the steps you can take to have integrity as more than just a word in your mission statement. |
5 |
Agreement & AccountabilityBecome forever empowered by learning the difference between an expectation and an agreement. With this distinction, you’ll forever be able to shift yourself—and others—out of a complaining, or victim, state and into solution mode. A pleasant side effect will be everybody’s improved levels of personal power. |
Executive application: Agreement & Accountability Guns loaded with your newfound ability to create agreements, learn how to get others to do the same. You’ll become known as a titan of accountability, a destroyer of complaint and gossip. |
6 |
Story & RealityGain a bird’s-eye view of your own mind’s need to explain and make sense of things, and how the story that you come up with often has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. Learn to swoop down on your own “narrative” and separate it from the reality of what’s really going on, thereby taking a quantum leap in your level of personal effectiveness. |
Executive application: Paradox & Polarity With your new eagle eye for story, learn to prey on the human mind’s tendency to seek polarised (either-or) answers instead of tolerating the paradox that you often find in reality, especially in business and leadership. |
7 |
Skilful ConversationsStep into a new level of leadership by learning to conduct coaching-style conversations. Apply this paint-by-numbers model to the most common leadership contexts: giving feedback, handling conflict, and dealing with technical queries. Amaze yourself and your colleagues as you singlehandedly raise everybody’s level of thinking, decision-making and performance. |
Executive application: The Courage to Coach Not being the one to solve everybody’s problems for them—in other words, applying a coaching style of leadership—requires courage: the courage to take risks, allow mistakes, and not have all the answers. Listen up, and get yourself ready. |
8 |
Working with EmotionsCommand the battlefield of your emotions by learning to listen to what they’re telling you. Victory comes when you can respond instead of react, which means transforming the energy of the emotion into fuel for positive action. This session is co-presented by clinical psychologist and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) specialist Dr Colinda Linde. |
Executive application: Leading with Compassion Being the commander in charge of your emotions means you can open up to a new understanding of compassion. Become known as the leader who knows how to challenge, yet can still show empathy; who can be about business, yet still care about the personal. |
9 |
The Red ZoneCatch yourself in the act of treating something like it’s the end of the world, when really it’s not. Learn to stalk your own triggers for this fight-or-flight reaction, and how to pounce—OK, how to presence and ground yourself—when those triggers are active. You’ll become even more deeply attuned to what’s real and what matters, which will have the knock-on effect of reducing your experience of life as being stressful and improve the effectiveness of your decision-making. |
Executive application: Systems & Stasis Being more in touch with what’s real means you’ll embrace the reality of change. With this reading, you’ll align with the reality that people naturally resist change, and learn to move them forward despite that fact. |
10 |
The State of FlowMaster the art of consciously moving between the motivational states. In particular, learn how to easily get yourself into “the zone”, or “flow” state, at any time and in any situation. Know when to rest, and when to stop resting, when to push yourself and when you’re pushing too hard. People will marvel as you begin to glide with ease through life. |
Executive application: The Comfort Zone Being a master of self-motivation means you’ll be able to motivate others. It also means you’ll recognise the dangers of being in a comfort zone and why you need to constantly challenge yourself—and others. |
11 |
Decision & CommitmentMap a route through life’s increasing complexity by learning how to create clear ground and stable reference points for effective decision-making. Add to the mix a recognition of the power of a determined commitment, and you’ll become a modern-day Moses, cutting a swathe through every obstacle and leading people to victory over circumstance. |
Executive application: Context & Content Having learned how decisions arise naturally out of a clear context (eg. what you need to do before work on a Monday!) you’ll have gained a new superpower. Naturally, you’ll need this teaching know how to wield it with wisdom and care. |
12 |
Authentic Leadership BrandStand up and make yourself accountable for being the kind of leader you know you ought to be—and can be. Define, or redefine, your authentic leadership brand—why you do what you do, what you want to be known for, and what you want to leave behind as a legacy. Discover new vistas of possibility for yourself and your people. |
Executive application: Working with Authenticity Now that you’ve stood up and clarified your leadership brand, let’s do some work to support that spine—it needs flexibility, not rigidity. Here you’ll learn how to remain authentic even while adapting to situations. |
BONUS |
The Habit of CompletionChase down one of the major causes of stress and ineffectiveness and learn to deal with it. It’s so simple and obvious, you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it. In fact, you’ll probably want to say you knew it all along, you just “forgot”! This is the last big step—it’s a giant leap, really—on the journey to personal effectiveness. |
Executive application: Equanimity—Letting Things Be When you get properly in touch with reality, you begin to see that many problems are only that because you say so. Equanimity means being able to see problems for what they are: simple reality! |
1 | Getting Motivated
Get to grips with the fact that you can get motivated at any time and in any situation—by a simple decision! Discover what that decision is, and how you can consciously and deliberately get yourself into the state of optimal experience (also known as the “flow” state).
Executive application:
People, Vision & Purpose Motivating yourself is one thing; motivating others, another. With this lesson, you’ll learn—or be reminded—how to motivate people by presenting a vision and appealing to their sense of purpose.
2 | Know Yourself
Nail the question of your personality strengths and weaknesses using the enneagram as a lens. Discover or confirm which activities are more likely to get you into that peak state of experience and performance. Conversely, discover or confirm what your “worst thing in the world” is, and just how much that runs your life!
Executive application:
Treat People as They Are Just because you like to do things a certain way doesn’t mean everybody else should! Learn to recognise, accept and even celebrate the diverse range of behavioural styles in your team.
3 | Working with Values
Take a look under the hood at how your personal set of values drives every decision you’ll ever make. Armed with this information, you’ll be able to adjust your life path to one that’s in line with your intentions. It might also keep you out of trouble for becoming too obsessed with one thing—like work, for example!
Executive application:
Leading through Values Now that you know how important people’s sets of values are to them, learn how you can apply that as a leader: firstly, as an entry point for getting to know your people; secondly, as a means to motivate them.
4 | Your Power to Create
Dig deep into the extraordinary power that you have as a human being to create and direct the course of your life, using language. Once you get this, you’ll be inspired to use your words more consciously and with greater precision—and you’ll know how. You’ll also have a new working definition of integrity.
Executive application:
Creating A Culture of Integrity Armed with your new understanding of the power of language, and of integrity, explore the steps you can take to have integrity as more than just a word in your mission statement.
5 | Agreement & Accountability
Become forever empowered by learning the difference between an expectation and an agreement. With this distinction, you’ll forever be able to shift yourself—and others—out of a complaining, or victim, state and into solution mode. A pleasant side effect will be everybody’s improved levels of personal power.
Executive application:
Agreement & Accountability Guns loaded with your newfound ability to create agreements, learn how to get others to do the same. You’ll become known as a titan of accountability, a destroyer of complaint and gossip.
6 | Story & Reality
Gain a bird’s-eye view of your own mind’s need to explain and make sense of things, and how the story that you come up with often has nothing to do with the reality of the situation. Learn to swoop down on your own “narrative” and separate it from the reality of what’s really going on, thereby taking a quantum leap in your level of personal effectiveness.
Executive application:
Paradox & Polarity With your new eagle eye for story, learn to prey on the human mind’s tendency to seek polarised (either-or) answers instead of tolerating the paradox that you often find in reality, especially in business and leadership.
7 | Skilful Conversations
Step into a new level of leadership by learning to conduct coaching-style conversations. Apply this paint-by-numbers model to the most common leadership contexts: giving feedback, handling conflict, and dealing with technical queries. Amaze yourself and your colleagues as you singlehandedly raise everybody’s level of thinking, decision-making and performance.
Executive application:
The Courage to Coach Not being the one to solve everybody’s problems for them—in other words, applying a coaching style of leadership—requires courage: the courage to take risks, allow mistakes, and not have all the answers. Listen up, and get yourself ready.
8 | Working with Emotions
Command the battlefield of your emotions by learning to listen to what they’re telling you. Victory comes when you can respond instead of react, which means transforming the energy of the emotion into fuel for positive action. This session is co-presented by clinical psychologist and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) specialist Dr Colinda Linde.
Executive application:
Leading with Compassion Being the commander in charge of your emotions means you can open up to a new understanding of compassion. Become known as the leader who knows how to challenge, yet can still show empathy; who can be about business, yet still care about the personal.
9 | The Red Zone
Catch yourself in the act of treating something like it’s the end of the world, when really it’s not. Learn to stalk your own triggers for this fight-or-flight reaction, and how to pounce—OK, how to presence and ground yourself—when those triggers are active. You’ll become even more deeply attuned to what’s real and what matters, which will have the knock-on effect of reducing your experience of life as being stressful and improve the effectiveness of your decision-making.
Executive application:
Systems & Stasis Being more in touch with what’s real means you’ll embrace the reality of change. With this reading, you’ll align with the reality that people naturally resist change, and learn to move them forward despite that fact.
10 | The State of Flow
Master the art of consciously moving between the motivational states. In particular, learn how to easily get yourself into “the zone”, or “flow” state, at any time and in any situation. Know when to rest, and when to stop resting, when to push yourself and when you’re pushing too hard. People will marvel as you begin to glide with ease through life.
Executive application: The Comfort Zone Being a master of self-motivation means you’ll be able to motivate others. It also means you’ll recognise the dangers of being in a comfort zone and why you need to constantly challenge yourself—and others.
11 | Decision & Commitment
Map a route through life’s increasing complexity by learning how to create clear ground and stable reference points for effective decision-making. Add to the mix a recognition of the power of a determined commitment, and you’ll become a modern-day Moses, cutting a swathe through every obstacle and leading people to victory over circumstance.
Executive application:
Context & Content Having learned how decisions arise naturally out of a clear context (eg. what you need to do before work on a Monday!) you’ll have gained a new superpower. Naturally, you’ll need this teaching know how to wield it with wisdom and care.
12 | Authentic Leadership Brand
Stand up and make yourself accountable for being the kind of leader you know you ought to be—and can be. Define, or redefine, your authentic leadership brand—why you do what you do, what you want to be known for, and what you want to leave behind as a legacy. Discover new vistas of possibility for yourself and your people.
Executive application:
Working with Authenticity Now that you’ve stood up and clarified your leadership brand, let’s do some work to support that spine—it needs flexibility, not rigidity. Here you’ll learn how to remain authentic even while adapting to situations.
BONUS | The Habit of Completion
Chase down one of the major causes of stress and ineffectiveness and learn to deal with it. It’s so simple and obvious, you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it. In fact, you’ll probably want to say you knew it all along, you just “forgot”! This is the last big step—it’s a giant leap, really—on the journey to personal effectiveness.
Executive application:
Equanimity—Letting Things Be When you get properly in touch with reality, you begin to see that many problems are only that because you say so. Equanimity means being able to see problems for what they are: simple reality!
Yes, I’m interested. How can I find out more?
Will delegates have contact with an actual coach?
Your people will never be left completely on their own. There are various contact points with an ICF-certified coach throughout the program.
The contact points will be as follows:
- First off, the coach will personally review the goals each delegate sets for themselves at the beginning of the process so that you can be confident that what they’re working on is challenging, inspiring, relevant and measurable.
- Second, they’ll get two chances to report on their self-coaching process to do with their main goals to see if they’re on track, if they’re doing it right, and to get feedback and guidance from their coach. (These submissions can be set as compulsory steps and used to align with progress reports.)
- In addition, each delegate will be able to ask one question at the end of each session with regards to their understanding and application of the session theme. (These questions can be set to accumulate on a forum where others can reference them as well, thereby leveraging the possibility for shared learning.)
- Finally, if they’re still having difficulty, the option exists for them to be able to book an online (Zoom / Teams) session with their coach. (A bundle of such sessions can be negotiated upfront as part of the package.)
What’s more, the program is modular and the different elements get repeated. This means that delegates be able to apply the process and coach themselves once they’ve finished the program.
In addition, when delegates have completed the program, they can gain access to a set of masterclasses. Importantly, they’ll know how to get the best out of those based on the process they’ll have learned by participating in this program.
What else do I need to know?
The Self-Coaching Online program is designed to improve your personal effectiveness, both in the short and long term. It will work for people who are already fairly well-balanced and moving forward in their careers, and who would like to take things up a level. They’ll need to have a reasonable level of self-awareness for this process to work.
The Self-Coaching Online program will not work for people who are suffering from anxiety or depression or any psychological disorder that is currently affecting their ability to perform. For that, they would first need to see a psychologist. When that’s sorted, then they can use this program to help them get back on track again.
If they’re dealing with complex issues, like navigating a business or a team that is being torn apart by politics, they might also struggle to get their result from this program, unless they already have a high level of self-awareness and/or they have received coaching before.
So, the Self-Coaching Online program is for people who are reasonably self-aware and self-motivated, who’ve done at least some self-reflection and some work on themselves, and who want to take their personal effectiveness to the next level. Perhaps they’re looking to improve their personal discipline and performance, their professional relationships and their general sense of career fulfilment. Or perhaps they seek to build the courage and confidence to take the next big step in their career, or to improve their leadership style or develop an authentic leadership brand. In all of these cases, the Self-Coaching Online (Executive) program will deliver excellent value.
I’m still not sure, what else can you tell me?
Many people find the investment of time and money for coaching prohibitive. I’m often asked whether coaching is covered by medical insurance—it’s not. In many cases, a company will sponsor the coaching, but often only for senior executives or people earmarked for that level, or for a leadership role. In order to make coaching more broadly accessible, I decided to create this, the Self-Coaching Online program.
The program is designed to give delegates all the awareness introductions they’d gain from a regular, live coaching program, plus it provides a structure for them to follow—and questions they can use—that, if applied intelligently and with diligence, will enable them to find the answers they’d normally get from having a coach sitting in front of them.
Of course, the reason why people engage a coach is to have someone listen skilfully and ask the right questions. Therefore, I’ve made sure that, by choosing the self-coaching online program, delegates won’t be entirely alone. They’ll be able to submit questions and check their progress along the way—to see if they’re asking and answering the coaching questions correctly. Their submissions will get personal attention, and we’ll make sure that every delegate gains confidence in their ability to coach themselves as they progress.