Coaching for Change Management: Lead Transitions ConfidentlyLeadership and management

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Course Description

Introduction

This course helps leaders coach individuals and teams through change—reducing resistance, strengthening communication, and building commitment so transitions are adopted faster and sustained over time.

 

Course Objectives

• Understand why people resist change and how to respond constructively

• Use coaching to build clarity, ownership, and confidence during transitions

• Communicate change messages with empathy, consistency, and impact

• Coach performance and wellbeing during uncertainty and workload shifts

• Create simple plans to sustain adoption and reinforce new ways of working

 

Target Audience

• Managers and senior leaders leading change initiatives

• Team leaders, supervisors, and project/program leads

• HR/OD and change champions supporting transformation

 

Course Outlines

Day 1: Change Fundamentals and the Leader as Coach

• What changes: processes, roles, behaviors, identity, culture

• Common reactions to change and the “change curve” basics

• Coaching vs telling during change: when each is needed

• Activity: Identify one current change and key people impacts

 

Day 2: Coaching Clarity and Alignment

• Translating change into “what it means for me/us”

• Defining expectations, roles, and success measures

• Coaching for ownership: goals, choices, and commitments

• Exercise: Create a stakeholder map and coaching approach

 

Day 3: Coaching Through Resistance and Difficult Emotions

• Types of resistance: fear, confusion, overload, loss of control

• Listening skills and powerful questions to uncover root causes

• Reframing: from problems to options and support needs

• Workshop: Practice a resistance coaching conversation

 

Day 4: Coaching New Behaviors and Performance During Transition

• Coaching adoption: habits, routines, and capability building

• Feedback and accountability: check-ins, action tracking, support plans

• Managing performance dips and maintaining service/quality

• Case practice: Coach a team member struggling with new ways of working

 

Day 5: Sustaining Change and Building a Change-Ready Culture

• Reinforcement: recognition, storytelling, and visible leadership habits

• Learning loops: retrospectives, lessons learned, continuous improvement

• Measuring adoption: simple indicators and pulse feedback

• Action planning: 30–60–90 day coaching plan for a live change initiative