Leadership Development Pathway

Leader as Coach Development Pathway

Build coaching capability from everyday leadership conversations to advanced psychologically informed practice.

Good leadership is not coaching all the time. It is knowing when coaching fits, having the skill to use it well, and recognising when another leadership response is required.

The TWC Leader as Coach pathway develops capability progressively — from foundational coaching conversations through to applied practice, psychologically informed coaching and sustained workplace application.

Develop coaching capability over time

Coaching capability develops through practice, feedback and application — not simply exposure to a model. Organisations can begin with Foundations or enter at a later level where previous coaching development supports it.

Build the foundations. Deepen the practice.

LEVEL 1
Leader as Coach Foundations course artwork

Leader as Coach: Foundations

Choose the right response. Structure the conversation.

Build core leadership judgement using the TWC Leadership Response Matrix, GROW, listening, ownership, accountability and boundaries.

Full day · Face-to-face · 8 hours

Up to 5: $5,500 + GST
Up to 10: $10,500 + GST

LEVEL 2

Leader as Coach: Applied Practice

Move beyond the model. Work with the person and situation.

Develop deeper listening, tentative pattern recognition and constructive challenge through intensive coached practice. Work with complex accountability conversations and adjust the leadership response as the situation changes.

Designed for participants who have completed Foundations or have previous coaching-skills training and familiarity with a basic coaching structure such as GROW. External entrants complete a short readiness/equivalency discussion.

Choose an advanced coaching lens

For leaders ready to work more deeply with recurring patterns, TWC offers two psychologically informed advanced pathways.

ADVANCED ELECTIVE 3A

Leader as Coach: CBC-Informed Coaching

Understand patterns. Test more workable responses.

Explore how triggers, interpretations, behaviour, emotion, reinforcement and context can maintain a pattern. Identify an intervention point and test a different response.

Problem Cycle → Bridge → Solution Cycle → Experiment

ADVANCED ELECTIVE 3B

Leader as Coach: ACT-Informed Coaching

Build psychological flexibility. Act on what matters.

Explore getting hooked, avoidance or struggle, short-term payoff and longer-term cost. Use Open Up · Be Present · Do What Matters to support values-guided action.

CBC

“What is maintaining this thinking and behaviour pattern, and what could we test?”

ACT

“What happens when I get hooked by this internal experience, and how can I move towards what matters?”

These programs use coaching psychology principles within a leadership-development context. They are not therapy programs, diagnostic training or substitutes for clinical assessment or treatment.

Embed the learning

Training builds capability. Practice helps make it usable.

6-Month Development Coaching

6 × individual coaching sessions

Apply learning at work, reflect on experience, test behavioural experiments and review development.

Leadership Practice Clinics

6 × clinics for organisational cohorts

Bring real cases, refresh skills, practise together, share peer feedback and agree the next experiment.

Balanced organisational option

Hybrid reinforcement

3 individual sessions + 3 group practice clinics

Combine individual reflection with shared practice over six months.

Learn→Apply→Reflect→Experiment→Review→Embed

Who is this for?

People leaders, supervisors, emerging leaders, middle and senior leaders, and organisations seeking to build coaching capability across leadership cohorts.

Find the right entry point

Build a Leader as Coach pathway for your organisation.

Start with one workshop or build a staged 6–12 month leadership-development pathway. TWC can help determine the right starting point based on existing capability, organisational context and development priorities.

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