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Leadership Coaching

Whether you manage entry-level employees or executives, this program will help you build the competencies to coach effectively, build employee skills, address shortcomings and develop leaders.

In this intensely focused, two-day program, you’ll learn best practices for coaching, observe a variety of coaching styles and techniques and gain firsthand experience with the coaching process.

This two-day program helps you strengthen your employees and your organization.

What You Will Learn:

You’ll learn ideas and techniques you can apply right away, including:

  • Methods to enhance your leadership capabilities through effective coaching
  • How to use coaching to develop, attract and retain talented employees
  • Understand how to identify employees’ key needs, set goals for their development, establish action plans and provide ongoing assessment
  • Ways to positively motivate employees in ways that improve individual and team performance

Who Should Attend:

  • C-Suite executives
  • Managers of all levels
  • Human Resource professionals
  • Consultants
  • Organizational Development practitioners

Length of Program

2 Days

Continuing Education Units

1.5 Units

Cost

$1,980
Cost includes tuition, instructional materials, continental breakfast and lunch (all days).

Location

Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, TN

What Participants Say

Mark Cannon is one of the best instructors I ever been exposed to.  Very effective at engaging participation & communicating concepts.

[This course] is very practical and gives you excellent tools for managing people and having effective relationships.

The information in the program is presented in an easy to understand method and you feel comfortable even with little to no coaching experience.

Beneficial in gaining knowledge if you find yourself coaching, mentoring, counseling or in general interacting w/employees and/or co-workers.

Great content & delivery. I appreciate Prof. Cannon's sustained energy & enthusiasm.  The external coaches were a real asset.

The course provides several tools that can be easily incorporated into any position to assist with and facilitate high performance.

Mark is a phenomenal instructor—very engaging, very insightful—kept examples relevant and fun.  Has a lot of knowledge and allowed for opportunities for participants...to tap into his knowledge tank.

If you are interested in developing employees, you should attend this class.

Scheduled Dates

PAST: March 2013

PAST: March 2012

PAST: April 2011

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Meet Your Instructor

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Mark Cannon

Adjunct Professor of Management; Associate Professor, Dept. of Human & Organizational Development; Associate Professor Education Leadership

Mark Cannon is seasoned executive coach and is an expert in teaching skills for executive coaching, delivering feedback, and handling difficult conversations. He has published books and articles on these topics. He has taught in George Washington University's Coaching Certification Program, and coached or consulted with Courage Capital Management, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Women's World Banking, DCI, Monitor Company, Marriott Corporation, Little Planet Learning, and the U.S. Department of State.