Vertical Leadership Development

Expanding mindsets, not just skill sets

Workplace Coaching Levels 1 and 2

For leaders building capable and adaptive teams

Our Workplace Coaching Program is a 5-day (Level 1 - 3 days, Level 2 - 2 days) intensive leadership program designed for leaders and business partners who are building successful teams using a coach approach.

This leadership development program will enable participants to:

Help others achieve their specific personal and professional goals
Strengthen the capability of their teams and partners
Have the skills to build a coaching culture

This Program is designed for middle and senior level leaders, organisational development and business partners, trainers and facilitators. It is aligned to the International Coaching Federation’s (ICF) core coaching competencies and ethics, providing a high international professional standard of coach education. By completing both Levels 1 and 2, our program can be used as a pathway to becoming an accredited coach.

Our programs can be adapted to suit your specific needs, including content and delivery following further scoping and review. We are happy to offer bespoke, flexible options to align with your organisation’s needs and budget, ensuring the best value outcome.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be challenged by what we hear.

Level 1 Program Details

Focus: complete suite of foundational coaching skills
Pre-work: reading material prior to the workshop
Workshops: 3 full days face to face
Peer coaching groups and field work: self directed and documented coaching practice sessions and reflective practice
Coaching in Action: 90 minute virtual session

By the end of this Program, leaders will be able to:

1.Appraise the distinctions between coaching, mentoring, consulting and counselling
2.Assess the coaching needs of coachees
3.Demonstrate foundational concepts and models of workplace coaching skills
4.Demonstrate and reflect on the core coaching competencies
5.Design and implement effective coaching plans
6.Critically reflect on the outcomes of coaching practice to support ongoing professional and personal development

Day 1

Coaching and coaching models
Solution focused coaching
Deep listening and creating awareness
Coach mindset
Skills practice with feedback

Day 2

Your true colours
Emotional agility & psychological safety
Effective coaching questions
Coaching in the moment
Skills practice with feedback

Day 3

Being present with mindfulness
Tough conversations
Overcoming barriers to coaching
Skills practice with feedback

We bring clarity to purpose, strategy and priorities, helping teams make decisions with confidence and move together in the same direction.

Level 2 Program Details

Focus: Advanced coaching skills
Pre-work: Reading material prior to the workshop
Workshops: 2 full days face to face
Peer Coaching Groups: Self directed and documented coaching practice sessions and reflective practice
Coaching in Action: 90 minute virtual session

By the end of this Program, leaders will be able to:

1.Integrate techniques into coaching practice to address the dynamics and core issues in workplace coaching, including resistance and barriers, enabling change and action planning
2.Evaluate the distinction between coaching and performance management, and the integration of coaching principles within performance management processes
3.Apply ethical principles, contracting and coaching standards in coaching practice
4.Demonstrate an ability to apply advanced coaching techniques and practice
5.Analytically reflect on practice and feedback from professional coaches
6.Analyse your own personal coaching vision

Day 1

Contracting deep dive
Core competencies expanded
Reframing
The change pathway
Personal resourcefulness
Discomfort zone
Accountability

Day 2

Vision and purpose coaching
Purposeful questions
Resistance and barriers
Giving and receiving quality feedback
Coaching vs performance management
Interconnection of neuroscience in coaching

Because when humans connect authentically, everything changes.

Who we are

We’re a purpose-driven team of coaches and facilitators with a common goal of evolving human potential. We are known for our deeply developmental approach, creating trusted spaces for insight and honest conversations, that lead to individual and organisational growth. Our team show up in integrity with our values as we walk alongside our clients, as strategic partners, thought leaders and co-facilitators.

Our work is grounded in advanced leadership practice and sustainable culture transformation. We blend evidence-based methods with practical, human-centred design to support evolution into new levels of performance.

Together, our team brings a powerful blend of executive leadership, organisational psychology, cultural transformation and systemic coaching experience. With backgrounds spanning CEO, board leadership, organisational development, psychology, facilitation and large-scale transformation, we draw on decades of partnerships across government, corporate, social impact and private sectors.