Leaders' Coach

The objective of the Leaders' Coach programme presented here is to develop the participating executives’ relational competencies and, in so doing, enable them to help other people and teams to establish positive relationships and build efficient teams in complex and uncertain settings full of doubts.
This programme specifically focuses on coaching skills, a powerful resource which can be used to support and help professionals and teams in business and organisational settings in general.

The programme is based on three pillars:

THE PERSON
The programme encourages executives to explore their own capacities and limits, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, all as a necessary first step to be able to correctly read and understand complex situations and be of use to other executives, serving as leaders who develop others’ potential and team efficiency.

THE ROLE
We shall work to define the limits and courses of action for the leader-coach as an executive who enables positive relations, facilitates adaptation processes and transforms people, teams and the organisation.

THE SYSTEM
Perceiving the company and the organisation as a system permits the leader-coach to apply a global vision and see the organisation as a complex and interlaced network of relationships through which the decisions and emotions that condition business results and efficiency travel.
 

• Develop the analytical, relational and emotional skills which enable leaders to interpret and act as coaches in complex and ever-changing settings.
 
• Base the coaching practice on situations of professional development, team optimisation and accompaniment during processes of organisational change and transformation.
 
• Enable the group of executives participating in this programme to serve as references and support for the continued development of the leader-coach role, becoming a learning community.
 

We will learn by experimenting and later conceptualising and analysing this experimentation. We will also classify executive experiences and practice to develop the skills needed to help professionals and teams as leaders-coaches.

Programme directors will accompany each participating executive for the latter to find what they need to strengthen and continue their personal and professional development, creating the necessary conditions for the group to become a learning community. This process shall extend well beyond the programme itself as we feel that sharing knowledge and experiences in a permanent network of exchange and mutual support is of enormous value for participants.
 

This programme is aimed at:

• Professionals in the Human Resources field who currently hold positions of responsibility in their organisations.
• Executives, managers and supervisors with business objectives and who have to lead teams and people.
• Professionals in other activity areas who wish to occupy a Human Resources position in the near future.
   

FIRST BLOCK – In-house
POSITIVE RELATIONS

Personal relationship style

• Significant moments in life
• Personal and professional references
• Search for personal and professional challenges
• Professional self-evaluation
• Personal relationship style: ask, offer, agree, recognise and listen
• Relational networks: primary and secondary networks
• Valuable people
• Practice as a leader-coach (I).

The organisation as a relational system. The leader-coach role.

• Strategic thought. Organisations as human systems
• A systematic look at and analysis of personal and organisational symptoms and phenomena
• The role and setting as a leader-coach. Action and limits.
• Listening to needs, demands and wishes
• Transferral in coaching processes
• Practice as a leader-coach (II).
  

Emotions and language in coaching

• Emotions and emotional states
• Positive language as a means to build realities and positive emotions
• Emotional regeneration
• Other leader-coach experiences
• Practice as a leader-coach (III).

SECOND BLOCK
EFFICIENT ORGANISATIONS

Intervening in the organisation

• Criteria to analyse and read groups and teams
• The leader-coach position and role within the group
• Intervening in team crises and conflicts
• Appreciative dialogues
• Scenarios feared by leaders-coaches
• Practice as a leader-coach (IV).
   

Improving relationships

• Plan to improve relationships
• Relational distance between team members
• Types of relations
• Conversations to restore efficient bonds
• Pending conversations
• Invisible people. Practice as a leader-coach (V).
   

INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSIONS
Throughout the programme, each participating executive will undergo two individual coaching sessions. The aim of these is to work on participants’ relational skills and their role as leaders-coaches.

 

Dates	Fee	Location
FIRST BLOCK April 7, 8  and 9, 2011 Residential SECOND BLOCK June 8 and 9, 2011	4.670 €	Barcelona

Program Director Barcelona

Ceferí Soler Vicente

ceferi.soler@esade.edu

see CV

Joan Quintana Forns

joan.quintana@esade.edu

see CV

Barcelona

Montse Cañellas Pascual, Product Manager

montse.canellas@esade.edu

Felicia Skira Laplace, Program Manager

felicia.skira@esade.edu