COACHING
FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
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A seven week programme for managers who wish to improve their capacity to lead their teams with intentionality, using coaching skills to create powerful and trusting relationships.
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Four sessions each of three hours during which there will be a combination of teaching, exercises, practice and discussion.
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Introductory 1 to 1 session with a course leader to prepare participants for the programme and establish personalised development goals that the programme will support.
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Optional Leadership Circle Profile debrief to support deeper self reflection
Who is this programme for?
The programme is designed for leaders of teams to grow their capacity to relate powerfully with the people in their teams using professional coaching skills, reflective practice and proven leadership models.
What will
leaders learn?
To cultivate relationships that are intentional and powerful and free from bias, noise and clutter (such as old stories, bad behaviour).
Programme
structure
Four three-hour Zoom sessions across seven weeks with a structured set of in-between fieldwork to give practical application for the learning
Session 1
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You will learn basic coaching skills and have a chance to practice them with fellow participants and course leaders as well as learning a model of when to use coaching as opposed to mentoring or feedback.
Session 2
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You will focus on YOU. Understanding more about your own internal operating system and how you tend to show up in different situations. You will also deepen your knowledge in coaching skills.
Session 3
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You will focus on how to connect with others including examining bias (which tends to stand in the way of connection) and intuition. You will also learn and practice new coaching skills that will help you to focus on those in your team and understand them more deeply.
Session 4
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You will learn how to work with complex relationships, to give feedback and practice all of the coaching skills that you have learned across the sessions
Fieldwork
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You will learn how to work with complex relationships, to give feedback and practice all of the coaching skills that you have learned across the sessions
Logistics : 4 to 7 pm Singapore time
Session 1 29 Sept 2026
Session 2 13 Oct 2026
Session 3 27 Oct 2026
Session 4 10 Nov 2026
Cost
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Course: USD 750, early bird discount $100 before midnight SGT 31st August 2026.
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If you opt for the Leadership Circle debrief, this will cost USD520 to manage the surveys and the debrief (with the course leaders).
Leadership
Circle Profile
Use the Leadership Circle to identify how your habits of thought and internal assumptions might be limiting your intended impact. It is powerful because:
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It goes beyond surface-level feedback: It is the only 360 degree tool that connects your everyday competencies with the internal assumptions fuelling them
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It measures Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies: it visually maps out your strengths (Creative, "above the line") and your defensive coping habits (Reactive, which might have helped your career in the past but are now holding you back (Reactive, "below the line")
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It helps you pivot from managing to leading: It shows you how to evolve from a "socialized" mindset (where you are defined by others' expectations) to a "self-authoring" mindset (driven by core principles)
Facilitators
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True leadership is measured not just by results, but by the resilience and growth of the people
who deliver them
Bruce O'Brien
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Faculty member at the Co-Active Training Institute.
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Former Shell leader with 20 years in leadership roles.
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Clients include Google, Medtronic, Maersk, Roche, Hilti and Shell.
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Designs and facilitates leadership and human relationship programmes across industries.
Executive coach
& facilitator based
in Malaysia
Chang Zhang
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Passionate in helping leaders thrive in matrix organisations while staying connected to values and purpose.
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Currently based in Shanghai with 14+ years international experience in the UK, Singapore and China. Faculty member at the Co-Active Training Institute.
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Brings perspective from both global corporate and personal practice.
Leadership coach
& facilitator with
global experience
1. Do I need prior coaching training?
No, you don’t need any previous coaching training or experience. The programme is designed for anyone who is interested in learning coaching skills.
2. What if I’m not a senior leader?
The programme is designed for people in leadership positions - that might mean you have direct reports, or need to influence people to get your work done (and thus need to have clear, intentional and powerful conversations).
3. Will this be practical?
Yes every element is designed for immediate use - whether as a framework for you to use before acting or taking a big decision, or for powerful conversations (both to prepare for them, and to execute them)
4. How is it different from management training?
We will be equipping you with tools and skills that you can choose how to use - we will not be giving you a formula to do X, Y and Z - you will work out how you want to use what you learn in the programme.
5. What if I already know coaching?
The programme teaches a number of coaching skills, with a lot of context around how to use them if you are leading people and how to blend them with other types of leader conversations such as mentoring or feedback.