Coaching the Coach

COURSE DURATION 3 DAYS

Date: 25^th to 27^th May 2026

This ALARDI Africa “Coaching the Coach” (or Coach Training) course teaches core coaching competencies like active listening, powerful questioning, goal setting, and ethical standards, helping individuals become professional coaches, managers, or leaders, often leading to ICF certification (ACC, PCC levels) through practical skills, mentoring, and real-world experience for impactful client growth. These programs vary from foundational skills for current roles (e.g., for managers) to comprehensive certifications for establishing a full coaching career.

Key Focus Areas:

• ICF Competencies: Deep dive into the 8 core competencies; demonstrate ethical practice, embody a coaching mindset, establish and maintain agreements, cultivate trust and safety, maintain a presence, listen actively, evoke awareness, and facilitate client growth.
• Practical Skills: Active listening, powerful questioning, feedback, fostering growth.
• Coaching Models: Frameworks like the 7 Spiral Coaching Steps (Outcome, Situation, Options, etc.).
• Ethics & Standards: Understanding and applying ethical guidelines in coaching.
• Self-Awareness: Developing your leadership style and coaching mindset.

Who Should Attend?

The Coaching the Coach training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, but will greatly benefit:

• HR and L&D/Training Managers
• Content Facilitators
• Senior Managers
• Team Leaders
• Middle Managers
• Supervisors/Team Leaders
• Those who need to coach others in the workplace

Training Methodology

Delegates to this training course will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered by the course outline, with the Facilitator utilizing a variety of proven adult learning, training, and facilitation techniques. The highly interactive and participative course methodology includes numerous practical demonstrations and activities relating to the core competencies of coaching, specific videos relating to the topics being discussed, as well as targeted, highly interactive exercises ensure learning is fully embedded during the training course. In addition, there will be structured, facilitated discussions to help reinforce the concepts and techniques used.

Course Outline

DAY 1: Coaching People to Excellence

• Defining Coaching: Coaching v Mentoring v Counselling
• The psychology of ‘Problem and Need’: the basis of Coaching
• How and why people learn: understanding the drivers of performance
• Qualities, attributes, and behaviours required to Coach to Excellence
• Motivational considerations in Coaching to peak performance
• Confidentiality and ethics, in Coaching situations
• Coaching in Action: practical demonstrations

DAY 2: Coaching Mastery

• Developing the Coaching ‘chemistry’: building rapport
• Understanding and developing your Coaching Style
• Emotional Intelligence and awareness in Coaching
• The Active Listening model
• Creating ‘Power Questions’ for coaching excellence
• Coaching Models explained and applied (GROW, OSKAR, Solution Focus)
• Structuring Coaching conversations
• Practical application: coaching demonstrations and practice

DAY 3: Coaching for Peak Organisational Performance

• Practical coaching: coaching demonstrations and practice
• Giving powerful feedback
• Development of the individual: implementing development plans
• Team Coaching: Coaching teams and groups
• Overcoming barriers to coaching in the organisation
• Embedding a Coaching culture in the organisation for optimum growth
• Summary

Certificate

• On successful completion of this training course, the ALARDI Africa Certificate will be issued to the participants.

Venue:

Kenya   –  Nairobi  –   Cost USD 1080

Date: 25^th to 27^th May 2026