Being a great coach and mentor leads to more productive and happy employees. Matching your leadership style to meet the needs of the employee and the situation will lead to successful results. This course will teach you how to coach your team to a high level of performance. This interactive workshop equips participants with the strategies and mindset needed for effective developmental conversations in the workplace. Through engaging discussions and real-world application, learners will explore the distinctions between coaching and mentoring while deepening their understanding of emotional intelligence and motivation. The first session introduces key concepts and demonstrations, while the second session provides hands-on coaching using live examples. By the end, participants will be able to set learner-centered goals and confidently navigate growth-focused conversations with their teams.
As a result of this workshop, learners will:
- Understand and select mindset(s) for developmental conversations with team members
- Distinguish skill sets from coaching, mentoring, and supervision/manager perspectives
- Recognize emotional intelligence and motivation types
- Identify learner-centered goals for workplace conversations
Meet the Presenter:
Tonya McKenna Trabant is a leadership/life coach, instructor, and consultant with Northcentral Technical College (NTC). She became an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) in 2020, and is an alumna of the UW-Madison Certified Professional Coaching Program. Her coaching clients include executive leaders, new managers, parents, small business owners, and nonprofit directors. In addition to coaching, Tonya has consulted and taught leadership, group dynamics, and
communication for the past 15+ years. Her work with leadership and communication includes projects in the corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors. Tonya teaches in NTC’s Leadership Academy as well as customizing workforce development programs for Northwoods organizations.
Tonya earned a Masters of Professional Communication (MA) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) where her research focused on how leadership and followership are defined and exercised in specific environments. Later while employed at UW-Madison, she co-created organizational development and community-based programs for students and professionals. Several of these have served as a model for other programs.
Registration: $149
Registration includes book The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever, Michael Bungay Stainer
6 CEUs