Coaching for Performance and Change: Foundations

Who is this for?

• Technical specialists, principal engineers and consultants taking on leadership of a team.
• Project and programme managers who deliver through other people.
• Functional or departmental managers — in operations, IT, R&D, finance and similar — newly accountable for people and performance.
• Established senior leaders who want to lead through coaching rather than instruction.

The responsibilities that typically bring them to the course:

• Getting results through a team, rather than through their own technical expertise.
• Developing, stretching and retaining capable people.
• Leading teams through change, uncertainty and shifting priorities.

Programme features

• Practical coaching skills you can apply at once, with your own team.
• A period of workplace application built into the design of the programme.
• Cranfield faculty who understand leadership in technically demanding, change-intensive organisations, drawing on real strengths in systems thinking and leading project teams.
• Peer learning alongside people from other organisations and sectors, working on real challenges.

A clear route onward, for those who want to take their coaching development further.

Programme Faculty

Professor David Denyer
Professor Kim Turnbull James