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Leadership & Management · The Leadership Series

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In partnership with Breakthrough Coaching

Breakthrough Coaching is the executive coaching practice founded by Dan Sakaki, a certified executive coach and seasoned facilitator with over 25 years of experience developing leadership capacity across the non-profit and business sectors. It guides individuals, leaders and groups toward meaningful, measurable growth.

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Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others

  • Delivered live online or in person
  • Customized to your industry and environment
  • Led by a specialist facilitator in this subject
  • Follow-up one-on-one coaching included
  • Typical duration: Half day

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

Jack Welch

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Ralph Nader

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Ronald Reagan

Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others Overview

A half-day workshop that shifts leaders' focus from personal performance to growing people. Participants leave with three practical frameworks, real-world stories and hands-on practice in coaching, feedback and mentoring.

The highest-leverage use of a leader's time is growing other leaders. Yet most leaders were never taught how to coach, how to give feedback that changes behaviour, or how to think seriously about who they are developing for the future. This working session closes that gap.

What we cover

  • Module 1: The Coaching Conversation The GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will), developed by Sir John Whitmore. Leave able to run a real coaching conversation using only questions. (60 min)
  • Module 2: Feedback That Lands The SBI framework (Situation, Behaviour, Impact) from the Center for Creative Leadership. Leave able to deliver specific, observable feedback that creates change instead of defensiveness. (60 min)
  • Module 3: Mentoring & Succession Thinking Three succession questions: Readiness, Talent and Humility. Leave able to identify a person you are developing toward a bigger role. (65 min)
  • Personal commitments and close (10 min)

Every session is customized to your industry and environment. The final agenda is confirmed with your facilitator before delivery.

For organizations that want managers who grow their people: coaching conversations that build capability, feedback that lands and a stronger succession bench.

  • Leaders who want a structured, repeatable approach to coaching conversations
  • Managers who have given or received feedback that did not land
  • Organizations building a bench of future leaders, not just managing today's performance
  • Printed workbooks, workshop materials and personal commitment cards
  • Paired practice for every framework
  • One to two experienced facilitators
  • An optional extension module for senior leaders managing managers, on request
  • Follow-up one-on-one coaching after the session
  • Live online: instructor-led, fully interactive, no travel
  • In-person: at your offices or a venue of your choice
  • Designed for cohorts of 6 or more
  • Four hours including one break
  • In-person sessions need space for pairs to practise privately

Pricing depends on delivery mode, group size and how much customization you want. Tell us the shape and we will quote it.