Why coach managers?
A manager doesn’t need to have all the answers, they need the emotional intelligence to understand what their team actually needs, and the confidence to act on it.
Coaching helps managers use empathy to understand, empower, and motivate the people around them, rather than defaulting to control or box-ticking.
Get this right, and the effect compounds: engaged managers build engaged teams, and engaged teams maximise performance.
Get it wrong, and a struggling manager can just as easily break the team experience as build it.
Maximising team performance.
Turning managers into coaching champions will help enshrine EQ principles into your business, generating more constructive and collaborative relationships and a more productive team.
Emotional Intelligence accounts for nearly 90% of what moves people up the ladder.
What Makes a Leader, Harvard Business Review
Programme Options
EQ coaching for managers
Our professional coaching team and the Think EQ portfolio of EQ coaching tools and techniques will build manager confidence, optimism and resilience. Coaching inspires and empowers managers in their personal and professional endeavours.
1:1 or group coaching
Professional Coaching
A six-session coaching approach focused on the real pressures of managing people — difficult conversations, delegation, and building trust with a team that doesn’t always make it easy.
Where useful, we draw on the EQ-i 2.0 to measure emotional intelligence at the start and end of the programme, and the Strengths Profile to identify what genuinely energises a manager at work, not just what they’re expected to be good at.
Group Workshop
Coaching Skills for Managers
A key skill for a manager is to empower and engage their team. For some, this will come naturally but for many this is new. Our ‘Coaching Skills for Managers’ workshop provides a space for reflection to identify your current management style, introducing participants to the coaching mindset to enable them to create a empathetic management style. The workshop will provide training on coaching skills as well as how to have meaningful development conversations to get the best from your team. It will also provide time and space to reflect on your own development as a people manager.
1:1 coaching
EQi 2.0 & 360
The EQ 360 is a multi-rater measure of emotional intelligence designed to provide the participant with a complete “360-degree” view of their emotional and social functioning.
Our 360 programme is carried out on a 1:1 basis with a self assessment and 1:1 coaching debrief using the EQ-i2.0 report. This session will allow space for personal development before we begin the process of eliciting feedback from direct reports, line manager, peers, clients and even family and friends, if requested.
Following the 1:1 coaching debrief, the participant will meet with their coach a second and final time to review the 360 report, discuss allied strengths, agree areas for development and examine any blind spots.
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From fledgling employees to experienced leaders, Think EQ offers ongoing, sustainable and measurable EQ coaching to create highly effective teams and better business results. Please get in touch discuss how we could help your business to achieve more