Coaching skills for successful leadership - 2 days

***Please note that this course is two days in total and will be held on:

• Tuesday 21st October, 9.30am-4.30pm
• Wednesday 22nd October, 9.30am-4.30pm

Attendance on both days is required.***

Aimed at Managers and Leaders, HR professionals and Consultants who want to explore coaching in the context of leadership to enhance their careers. During the two days there will be a strong focus on using coaching to address relational aspects of leadership, including developing strong relationships, problem solving, action planning, feedback and accountability. There will be lots of discussion as a group to ensure that each delegate understands coaching in the context of how they plan to use it; as well as practising the skills learned so you become confident in your role as Coach.

David Holmes and Yvonne Vigar will expertly guide you through the content drawing on their years of experience in leadership and executive coaching to ensure you have relevant and up to date skills, which you can apply to your role.

This course will focus on valuable skills which will support you in understanding how to create effective team working, empowering the team, developing meaningful conversations, effective delegation, providing feedback and supporting performance. Therefore, this course is suitable for current leaders who want to develop their skills or for Consultants and Coaches who want to apply their skills to support leaders and teams.

The course will be interactive and you will have the opportunity to practice the skills during the sessions. You will therefore, be required to bring work-based topics or issues to the group so you can practice problem solving skills; and be willing to reflect on your own aspirations and development as a coach.

By the end of this course, you will feel more confident, you will understand how and when to use the tools and skills shared; and have lots of ideas of how to implement a coaching style of leadership.

Not only that you will become part of a unique continued professional development group to support your ongoing development as a coach and leader.

If you want to pay by BACS and receive an invoice, please contact yvonne@astaraconsulting.co.uk

Spaces are limited, so please book early.

***Residential spaces are available - please get in touch with yvonne@astaraconsulting.co.uk to discuss requirements.***

About the trainers:

Yvonne Vigar

Yvonne Vigar is an Executive Coach and Trainer supporting executives, and senior leaders across the South of England.

Prior to setting up her business Astara Consulting in 2013, Yvonne was an Associate and Deputy Director of Primary Care for a Primary Care Trust. Yvonne’s NHS career spanned 18 years in total where she gained significant leadership experience, working across multiple NHS organisations and within a range of fields including finance, performance, programme management and commissioning.

During her time at Somerset PCT, Yvonne qualified as an Executive Coach and NLP Practitioner and took the opportunity to Coach colleagues who were in difficulty. Yvonne was also involved in a programme supporting Clinicians and Senior Leaders prepare for leadership roles within the new CCG, by undertaking psychometric assessments, feedback and coaching.

As a consultant, Yvonne regularly supports clients from across the South West with a range of leadership issues, focusing on areas such as vision, strategy, systems and structure; communications (team and indivudual), team dynamics, and personal leadership and effectiveness skills (including emotional intelligence and resilience).

Yvonne is well known across the South West for her specialism in primary care, regularly training and supporting clients inareas such as leadership, coaching skills, resilience, and conflict resolution; as well a providing 1-2-1 and group coaching.

David Holmes

David Holmes is a senior business leader, executive coach and mentor with many years experience of advising and supporting senior executives at Board level and other key positions. David works across a wide range of international organisations and industry sectors with clients across the EMEA theatre.

David works with senior executives to help them achieve significant shifts in thinking, helping them to develop their strategic focus and create a clear vision for success. His pragmatic approach gained in a successful corporate career spanning over 30 years, makes David ideally placed to act as a confidential sounding board who senior executives can work with openly on their business agendas.

Prior to founding The Transformational Leadership Group in 1992, David had a very successful career in the media sector, holding key board positions in a number of large international corporations. Whist operating at CEO and Board level his main leadership focus centered on strategy, organisational and business development, marketing, brand management and innovation.

As a consultant David believes in his own continuing professional development, he is accredited in Advanced Executive Coaching and a Member of the Association for Coaching. He is also certified in Career Counselling and is an NLP Business Practitioner.

He studied Foundations of Modern Psychology at Birkbeck London University and is accredited by the British Psychological Society in Occupational Testing with a focus on a wide range of Psychometric Instruments. David is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

David is also a lecturer for Yeovil College, specialising in Leadership and Coaching.

‘The wise advice of David Holmes– the first consultant we have ever hired that we admired’

Dame Anita Roddick (d)