Leadership Conversations

Today, many leaders and executives face a growing number of issues and challenges, exacerbated by the level of economic and political uncertainty, such as:

• low levels of trust and psychological safety, making it harder to align and delegate;
• adjusting to changing work-from-home expectations;
• misunderstandings and miscommunication between employees;
• dissatisfaction of employees with the corporate culture, the atmosphere in a team, working conditions, etc.

If issues such as these are left unresolved, there is a significant impact on productivity, engagement and the organisation’s results. That is why it is essential for leaders and managers to periodically question themselves, “How satisfied are my employees?” and “What might I do differently to increase satisfaction?”

While it is important that the company’s development strategy is reconciled with the current managerial situation, as leaders, we need to be able to swiftly identify & implement ways to engage with these types of issues.

The Centre for Coaching’s Leadership Conversations Series is designed to support leaders in the development of their leadership conversation skills. We created six individual short courses to enable executives, HRs, and leaders to build trust, align and delegate, give and receive feedback and hold all conversations that matter holistically, amplifying capacity to resolve the complex issues and challenges we face.

All the Leadership Conversations in the series are grounded in our highly successful and renowned Integral Coaching framework, ensuring a consistent and aligned methodology across the board.

This series of workshops is for you if collaboration and coordination with others is important to you and to your success. Are you an Executive, Manager, Emerging Leader, Consultant or Professional who is:

• seeking to develop and grow your teams through the proven principles of transformative leadership conversations
• looking for better ways to get things done in a more engaging and inspiring way
• curious about how to become more efficient and effective in multiple leadership situations

Our interactive courses are registered as individual UCT* short courses. Practice-based modules have the following flexibility:

• Any 1-day module can be taken as an individual, self-contained course.
• It is highly recommended to attend all 7 contact days, as each day develops and deepens an important leadership conversation skill.
• You can select and combine the courses that best strengthen a specific capacity you would like to build.
• All these conversations are based on the theoretical foundations of our Integral Coaching ® approach.
• Courses will be run using our world-class live-virtual, fully interactive online teaching methodology using Zoom.

*UCT: University of Cape Town

Course Dates for 2025:

Leader As Coach 20 – 21 February 2025

Alignment & Delegation 14 March 2025

Feedback & Development 26 May 2025

Confronting with Courage  18 June 2025

Building & Rebuilding Trust 29 August 2025

Mentor – Amplifying Talent 10 October 2025

• Essential skills required for conducting coaching conversations
• The benefits of being skilled in making requests, promises, and offers to optimise business outcomes.
• An understanding of feedback conversations to ensure that they are constructive and inspire growth.
• How having direct, constructive conversations helps to avoid conflict.
• Tools for building trust in a conscious and coherent way.
• A deeper understanding of the difference between coaching and other methods of interaction.
• Practical knowledge of the processes, skills, and qualities that will make you a great mentor.

You will be awarded a UCT certificate for each of these courses – assuming attendance for 100% of the time.

Should you complete all 6 courses, you will also receive a certificate from the Centre for Coaching, showing attendance at the full series.