Description
This Programme is Designed For:
Every leader and manager including aspiring leaders , as coaching skills are essential for leading people, processes, pioneering elements of a business.
L&D, talent Development, OD and HR Professionals who wish to get the best possible results organisationally and individually.
Project Managers wishing to develop stronger and better relationships with team members and stakeholders.
Organisations seeking to develop their team leaders as Coaches.
You Will Leave with:
Practical coaching skills for managers that will transform your management style
Knowing how to use coaching skills to develop and build a high performing team
An understanding of coaching models and processes and how to use these in practice
The confidence to start practising coaching skills immediately
Delivery Mode
- Pre-reading and pre-assessment
- 24 hours Experiential, contextually based learning
- Reflective assignments
- Skill drills and competency development
- Case studies
- Role play
- Visiting speakers sharing experiences of team coaching
- Experience co-coaching (two coaches coaching a team together)
- Presentations of learning.
- New for 2025: Experience LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® in our Leader as Coach programme, a creative method that transforms complex challenges into engaging, manageable scenarios, enhancing teamwork and communication
Outcomes
By the end of this programme candidates will:
- Appreciate the benefits of coaching teams as a team leader
- Recognize and be able to effectively apply the tools and techniques for promoting psychological safety
- Effectively create team level action plans with measurable results
- Utilise powerful questioning approaches
- Experience using and sharing knowledge from the team system
- Practice deep listening (beyond words)
- Promote agile approaches to support quality solutions, timely delivery, and cost-effective results
- Efficiently managing accountability
- Appreciate ways leaders can coach across teams
- Identify ways to improve performance and impact of teams by recognising the needs of the wider system and field it operates within.
Length
40 blended learning hours with 24 hours live online or in person.
Delivered By
Certified Systemic Team Coaches who are ICF PCC/MCC and EMCC SP/MP, with experience across sectors globally.
Designation Achieved Upon Successful Completion
CoachME Team Coach and TAP360 ‘Team Advance Profile’ Professional User
Progression Routes
Certification in Systemic Organisational, Executive Team, and Board Coaching (ICF ACTP/Level2)
Commendations
“…an incredible experience especially with all the learning, motivation and fun
in our clan! The programme is well-designed… I would highly recommend it for
anyone seeking professional accreditation in coaching. Many thanks to the BMC team.”
Amer Marhoon, AVP, Organisation and Efficiency, BNP Paribas
“State of the art delivery with live on-line tools… Extremely knowledgeable CoachME faculty… Sameera ensured we had a deep learning in this programme whilst also sharing experiences and having fun together… The team coaching supervision brought the whole experience to life…”
Dr. Laurence Hedley-Brown, Ed.D; BA(HONS); TEFL; Cert.Ed; PGCE(FE); MA., Professional Development Advisor, Saudi Aramco Oil
“What a brilliant programme. The delivery was so lively and passionate.”
Nacira Ferdjoukh, Head of Human Resources, Citi
“This programme could not be more enjoyable and effective. It was outstanding.”
Ahmad Al-Abdrabbuh, Senior EVP and Board Director, YOKOGAWA
“This truly has been the most enjoyable course I have ever attended.”
Abdul Aziz Al Wohaibi, Head of Talent Management, Obeikan Investment Group,
“Big thank you to BMC for accompanying me along my coach learning journey. I recently attended their CoachME Team Coach training and it opened so much reflection on my current practice, what I am doing well and what I did not suspect I could do. I enjoyed everything… A fabulous Learning experience.”
Alexandre Goubin, Director – Operating Model & Commercial Optimization, LEGO
“Excellent Lead Coach… all the elements were useful, [most enjoyable]
practical parts of the workshop…”
Rashid Almansoori, CEO Qatar Stock Exchange
About the programme
The Leader as Coach programme is designed to not only enhance a leader’s coaching capabilities but to transform the way leaders think and operate across all sectors globally. This course goes beyond teaching the mechanics of coaching; it empowers leaders with the strategic insight to know when and how a coaching approach can drive meaningful change, elevate team performance, and lead with integrity and ethics in complex environments. It’s about integrating coaching into the broader leadership framework, helping leaders make more informed, ethical, and impactful decisions.
Delivered by world-class executive coaches with extensive senior leadership experience, the programme blends cutting-edge coaching theory with real-world applications. Leaders will be guided to make powerful connections between theory and their own leadership practice, building the confidence to lead more effectively through coaching. With a focus on global leadership challenges, the programme equips leaders to navigate the demands of diverse industries and cultures, enabling them to create lasting impact in their organisations and beyond.
Programme structure
Leader as Coach is delivered across a three-month period, with taught days interspersed with individual coaching practice. The course includes pre-reading and assessment. Taught sessions are highly interactive with leaders expected to contribute actively throughout the course.
With appropriate support provided, leaders are also required to self-manage their coaching practice throughout the course to ensure integration of their learning into their leadership practice.
The course is made up of 4 days of workshops plus one day of Assessment across three months (usually 3 +2 or 4 + 1) and in between the live in person or live online sessions our team of highly experiences internal and external master coaches will be available to provide online support, mentor coaching and supervision.
Day One: Coaching as a Leadership Skill
The first day defines coaching in the leadership context, assessing how and when it might be the most appropriate intervention. Leaders will develop an appreciation of how to apply a non-judgemental approach to development and the value of a non-directive intervention in supporting personal responsibility in decision making that takes account of power dynamics. Throughout the course there will be a clear emphasis on the ethics of coaching in the workplace. Together we focus on powerful questioning, active listening – beyond words, and simple diagnostics.
Day Two: Core skills of the Coaching Leader
Day two focuses on developing coaching skills and knowledge. Leaders will learn how to manage the coaching conversation process without directing the content, understand ways to deal with ethical issues such as conflicts of interest and confidentiality as well as ways to manage coaching projects. We will also be exploring ways to hold the coaching space, managing our own responses and using intuition.
Day Three: Learning from Experience
We will explore the importance of personal reflection in learning and working with limiting beliefs. Leaders will become familiar with some of the tools and techniques that can be applied in the coaching context and appreciate the importance of language.
Further opportunity for coaching practice between taught days.
Day Four: Developing coaching capability
Leaders will gain an understanding of some potential challenges that could arise when using a more holistic coaching approach to developmental conversations. We will learn how to integrate and take coaching skills forward as a leader and to build a coaching culture. We will also explore coaching in a systemic approach, using creative, AI and communicative tools in person and online for coaching, how to reflect on practice, ways to coach groups, how to assess the impact/return on investment of coaching and ways to report on coaching projects.
You will also be coached by one of our master certified coaches / master practitioners.
Coaching practice
To gain the most benefit from this course, leaders are expected to recruit several volunteers to coach during the course and to have more than one session with each volunteer. Here you will also reflect upon your coaching be it informal or formal session, 1:1, group or with teams/boards.
Progression Routes:
This programme leads into our intermediate ‘deep dives’ into coaching modalities and techniques which is a further 2.5 days (or 16 hours) providing leaders with an Association for Coaching International (AC) Diploma in Coaching following assessment.
A further 3 days (21 hours) will enable leaders to apply for the Associate Certified Coach credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The focus at this level is on executive, team and board coaching specifically.
