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The Leader as Coach™
Building Capability, Unlocking Potential and Creating Sustainable Performance
Download Course BrochureFlexible delivery options to suit your leadership team and organisational needs.
Duration
5 Days
Certificate
LOCEPX
Level
Executive
Format
In-Person
Delivery Mode
The course combines expert facilitation, practical coaching frameworks, leadership scenarios, structured discussion, reflective practice and workplace application. Participants will examine common people-development challenges and practise approaches for coaching, feedback and capability development. The methodology focuses on realistic leadership situations and practical techniques that can be integrated into everyday conversations, performance discussions and development relationships.
Online
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
In Person
Date: 2nd – 6th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 9th – 13th Nov 2026
Location: London
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 16th – 20th Nov 2026
Location: Madrid
Fee: £4,495
In Person
Date: 23rd – 27th Nov 2026
Location: Paris
Fee: £4,495
Online
Date: 7th – 11th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 14th – 18th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Online
Date: 21st – 25th Dec 2026
Location: Virtual
Fee: £3,495
Introduction
This LOCEPX Training course equips leaders to move beyond directing people towards developing the capability, confidence and ownership required for stronger performance. This LOCEPX Training course strengthens the practical coaching skills leaders need to have better development conversations, challenge thinking, provide meaningful feedback and help people take greater responsibility for their performance and growth.
Strong leaders do not simply solve problems for their teams; they build people who can think, decide and perform more effectively for themselves. The Leader as Coach™ helps participants make coaching a practical part of everyday leadership rather than an occasional formal activity. The programme explores when to coach, when to direct, how to ask stronger questions, how to listen effectively and how to turn performance conversations into opportunities for development. Participants will also examine how to identify potential, address capability gaps and create meaningful development pathways. The emphasis is not on turning managers into professional coaches, but on developing leaders who consistently strengthen the capability of the people around them while maintaining clear expectations, accountability and organisational performance.
Functional and departmental leaders
Team and operational leaders
People and organisational development leaders
Programme and project leaders
Professionals responsible for developing others
Senior Managers People Leaders Functional Leaders Team & Operational Leaders
Participants will leave the Programme with stronger strategic capability and practical approaches that can be immediately applied within their organisations.
A practical leadership coaching framework
Stronger questioning and listening techniques
Improved developmental feedback capability
Greater confidence in coaching conversations
Practical approaches to capability development
Stronger performance coaching skills
Improved talent-development capability
A personal coaching leadership approach
Apply practical leadership coaching techniques
Ask questions that strengthen thinking
Deliver meaningful developmental feedback
Develop individual capability and potential
Build greater ownership and accountability
Leadership Coaching Powerful Conversations Feedback & Performance Capability Development Ownership & Accountability
Core Areas
Understanding coaching as a leadership capability
Coaching versus directing, mentoring and managing
Recognising when coaching is appropriate
Moving from problem solving to capability building
Understanding the leader's role in developing others
Creating responsibility rather than dependency
Establishing trust within coaching relationships
Developing a coaching leadership mindset
Structuring effective coaching conversations
Asking questions that stimulate thinking
Moving beyond questions that lead the answer
Developing active and purposeful listening
Identifying what is not being said
Challenging assumptions constructively
Encouraging reflection and self-awareness
Turning conversation into meaningful action
Understanding feedback as a development tool
Creating a culture where feedback is normal
Giving clear and constructive feedback
Handling defensive responses effectively
Coaching around performance challenges
Balancing support with accountability
Turning feedback into behavioural change
Strengthening ownership for agreed actions
Identifying strengths and development needs
Understanding capability versus performance gaps
Recognising potential within teams
Creating meaningful development opportunities
Stretching people without overwhelming them
Delegating as a development strategy
Supporting career and capability conversations
Building stronger internal talent pipelines
Integrating coaching into everyday leadership
Developing managers who develop others
Building coaching into performance conversations
Creating shared responsibility for development
Strengthening learning across teams
Measuring development and capability progress
Sustaining coaching behaviours under pressure
Developing a personal leader-as-coach action plan
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EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
Coaching and Developing People for Performance
The Leader as Coach™
Develop people. Unlock potential. Build capability that strengthens performance.
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