Coaching Skills Training for Organisations
With expertise designing and delivering coaching skills training for internal coaching teams and coaches, leaders & managers we've worked across sectors from FTSE 100 / Fortune 500 companies to the public sector, schools and charities. Our experienced trainers are selected with relevant industry experience and can deliver online or in person across the UK.
Are you looking to improve performance, enhance engagement, or support more creative decision-making across your organisation?
At Optimus, we specialise in best-in-class coach training for individuals and organisations, grounded in evidence-based approaches and supported by our holistic coaching framework.
Since 2019, we've built a strong reputation for delivering high-impact training that focuses on real-world application. These are practical, proven skills your people can use every day.
Our mission is simple: to help the people in your business thrive.
We’ve delivered training in-house and externally for a wide range of clients, including Big Four firms, universities, FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies (in retail, finance, travel, and tech), the NHS, charities, and high-growth startups.
In today’s landscape, coaching skills are no longer optional for leaders and manager, they're essential. Whether your managers are new to coaching or experienced leaders ready to deepen their expertise, we offer tailored programs to support:
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Stronger team performance
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Increased engagement
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Better decision-making
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Higher emotional intelligence and resilience
Our programs are rooted in Psychology and Neuroscience with our trademarked holistic coaching framework at the core giving your leaders the understanding and tools to manage stress, navigate complexity, and lead with empathy and clarity.
We know that the most effective leaders and managers use coaching skills : imagine if all of your organisation were confident and competent in using them the difference in engagement and performance - in fact managers with coaching skills have been found to increase performance by 130% (Bersin & Associates)
Unlocking Talent & Sources of Productivity
Traditionally coaching has been limited to performance coaching within organisations. We believe this has a space alongside more holistic coaching which supports people to grow developmentally.
Within your context this can look like coaching sessions or it can look like having a coaching focus for discussions both of which can support motivation, engagement and performance.
Coaching maximises the individual’s potential by unlocking talent and sources of productivity. As it is a results-orientated process, it drives both high performance and increases employee retention rates.
An Empowered Workforce
Coaching encourages the practice of self-coaching, so the coachee is empowered and able to manage challenges for themselves during the coaching and beyond. Having a confidential and reflective space with a qualified and experienced coach allows individuals to question approaches, experiences, come to conclusions and set their own objectives, what we call a “strategic thinking partner”’.
Managers are thus encouraged to become solution-orientated, promoting strategic thinking and applying a coaching approach with their teams. Some commonly cited benefits of coaching are significant improvements in relationships, team dynamics and communication skills.
Fostering Behavioural & Cultural Change
As coaching focuses on professional challenges and business skills, we commonly find that coaching given to managers and leaders can drive behavioural and cultural change in organisations by creating a culture of creativity and problem solving, as well as enhancing organisational performance and providing a return on investment.
Business Acumen & Self Awareness
Having line managers who possess the business acumen and understand the importance of self-awareness and emotional intelligence in the workplace can significantly reduce work related stress and absence, which ultimately positively impacts the organisation’s productivity and bottom line.
In addition, developing a manager’s business skills will allow them to inspire and motivate their teams, resulting in a positive impact on organisations by driving a high-performance culture and supporting the organisation’s goals.
“The role of the manager, in short, is becoming that of a coach.” – Harvard Business Review, 2019. .
The Solution To Gain The Competitive Advantage
When your leaders are trained in coaching skills, they become equipped with a wealth of evidence-based coaching tools and techniques that enable them to positively influence organisational culture and improve the performance of those they lead.
They become better able to manage different people and personalities effectively; to drive behavioural change; to unlock talent; to encourage and motivate teams in a more powerful way, leading to long-lasting engagement and productivity improvements that support the organisation’s goals and targets.
At Optimus our training includes a focus on Psychology & Neuroscience which means that your employees will learn about how to manage stress, support others to improve well-being and build more effective relationships,
Workshops / Programs
If you have a group of leaders / managers who you've identified as benefitting from coaching skills we often work with you to create bespoke workshops or training programs to meet your objectives.
These can include in person workshops, online learning or webinars.
We usually design the workshops based on level of coaching expertise :
New to coaching: this is for new leaders or managers or those who don't have coaching expertise who want to build the foundational skills including active listening, supporting growth and presence. These can start from 1 day workshops.
Skill development: this is for leaders and managers who use coaching skills in their role and want to develop further by integrating Psychology & Neuroscience into what they doAdvanced skills: this is for internal coaches or those who do a lot of coaching who are looking to further elevate their practice.
All programs can include 1:1 or group coaching, coaching assessments, supervision and mentoring alongside training and are delivered in person (UK) or online.
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Leader As A Coach
This course has been specifically developed for leaders and people managers who are responsible for business results and team performance to learn the art of coaching, so that they can advance their skills within the workplace.
Research shows that coaching leads to better engagement, higher productivity, increased retention rates and enhanced customer service. It also helps an employee improve performance, overcome challenges, reach aspirational goals, and build self-confidence.
What you will learn:
This programme empowers leaders to become more confident, more self-aware and more effective as a coach.
Driven by research and led by experienced trainers, the programme is delivered in a workshop style that enables the students to practice new skills and techniques in a safe environment.
Students will gain insight into the processes involved in behavioural change, as well as the organisational context for coaching and the dynamics of coaching relationships. They will also have valuable time to reflect and network with a supportive group of peers.
Benefits for participants include:
- Understand the dynamics of coaching relationships: individual, team and organisational
- Increase your range of coaching tools and techniques and knowing when and how to use them in your leadership role
- Understand the psychological processes involved in behavioural change and how coaching can support this
- Build mastery and confidence in coaching by deepening your understanding of yourself and others
- Experience coaching mentoring
Benefits to the organisation include:
- Maximise performance of your managers and team
- Improve relationships between managers and their teams
- Enable communication and information sharing amongst teams
- Build greater engagement with customers and among employees
- Develop a powerful coaching culture within your organisation
- Develop employees who can contribute to organisational change through the effective application of evidence-based coaching tools and techniques.
Modules (these can be modified on request)
Module 1: Introduction to Coaching in the Corporate Space
Module 2: Coaching Frameworks and Principles
Module 3: Understanding Your Client
Module 4: Understanding Human Behaviour
Module 5: Unlocking Potential
Module 6: Influence and Impact
Module 7: Integrating Coaching Culture
DISC Behavioural Profiling
After transitioning into a management position, leaders or senior managers can often assume the people in their team work in the same way as them and think in the same way too. In reality this is not the case - therefore taking the time to understand the behavioural preferences within their team can significantly help the team’s overall performance.
Understanding the different behaviour types within a team is even more important given leaders are sometimes now managing teams in hybrid environments. Learning the 4 main personality profiles used in the DISC model: (D)ominance, (I)nfluence, (S)teadiness and (C)onscientiousness can be helpful when looking at understanding behavioural preferences as it means leaders can modify their communication and improve relationships with their team. It also helps leaders to get the most out of their team and increase productivity.
Ultimately, when a manager understands how people have preferences for different ways of working, they are able to create the conditions for them to flourish, which will improve their team member’s happiness and performance and contribute to the overall performance of the organisation.