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Leadership Coaching Strategies

Learn leadership coaching strategies to help your team navigate business challenges and maximize performance.

All Start Dates

  • Time

    11:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET

  • Length

    4 consecutive Wednesdays

  • Cost

    $2,850
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    February 25, 2025

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    May 27, 2025

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    August 19, 2025

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $3,100
    Programs fill quickly — free cancellation up to 14 days prior

  • Registration Deadline

    October 7, 2025

What You'll Learn

Designed for managers and leaders who have direct reports, this is a foundational leadership coaching program. Coaching is a skill anyone can learn and one which we can all improve.

With business moving at breakneck speed, frequent job shifts, and limited in-house training, professionals of all levels grapple with change. As a result, organizations are in dire need of leaders who can guide their colleagues through workplace challenges, help them improve performance, and lead them through career decisions. Leaders and managers who employ coaching as a strategy to address performance, individual and team outcomes, and culture change tend to be more successful. Employees are generally happier working for managers who coach as a part of their leadership style.

This program offers basic coaching frameworks for internal employees to strengthen their coaching skills. Through lectures, case studies and experiential learning you’ll develop and fine-tune essential coaching skills. Topics covered include how to design a coaching engagement, the role of assessments in coaching individuals and teams, and core principles and qualities to look for when hiring coaches for your company.

Program Benefits

  • Become a better leader by developing your coaching toolkit
  • Help your employees reach their potential, while supporting the goals of the company
  • Promote a company culture that supports professional growth and retains talented team members
  • Prepare for expanded management responsibilities
  • Practice key elements of the coaching process, from contracting to initial meeting to completion
  • Earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics Covered

  • Developing a coaching mindset by examining the latest coaching principles and best practices
  • Discovering essential competencies for effective coaching: thinking, being, and doing
  • Using personal assessment tools to help people understand how others perceive them
  • Adapting your style to the needs of different individuals by practicing new techniques
  • Overcoming common coaching challenges, such as delivering difficult feedback in a way that promotes constructive outcomes
  • Gaining greater self-awareness through coaching and furthering your own professional development

Who Should Enroll

This fundamental program is designed for internal managers who want to develop a coaching approach to leadership, as well as HR professionals who want to coach leaders within their organization or who are responsible for hiring external coaches. It is not intended for external coaching consultants, those with an extensive background in coaching, or are already certified coaches.

Participants with three years or 100 hours or more of coaching experience are advised to enroll in Executive Leadership Coaching: Mastery Session. Note that enrolling in Leadership Coaching Strategies does not qualify participants for the Executive Leadership Coaching: Mastery Session program until they have the requisite three years or 100 hours or more of coaching experience.

March Schedule

Week 1

  • Coaching Foundations

Week 2

  • A Coaches Toolbox

Week 3

  • Assessment Tools & Success Strategies

Week 4

  • Coaching Practice & Review

June Schedule

Day 1

  • Foundations of Coaching Toolbox
  • Designing a Coaching Engagement

Day 2

  • Key Coaching Competencies
  • Assessment Tools & Coaching Practice

August Schedule

Day 1

  • Foundations of Coaching Toolbox
  • Designing a Coaching Engagement

Day 2

  • Key Coaching Competencies
  • Assessment Tools & Coaching Practice

October Schedule

Day 1

  • Foundations of Coaching Toolbox
  • Designing a Coaching Engagement

Day 2

  • Key Coaching Competencies
  • Assessment Tools & Coaching Practice

Instructor

  • Madeline McNeely

    Madeline McNeely

    Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and is Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in innovative ways and develop new habits to solve their most vexing challenges is her sweet spot.

Instructor

  • Kevin Ball sits at a conference room table.

    Kevin L. Ball

    Kevin L. Ball is a seasoned leadership consultant, coach, and trainer with over 15 years of experience spanning a spectrum of industries, from Fortune 500 companies to international players. His expertise lies in facilitating rapid organizational change to enhance overall effectiveness and efficiency, all while fostering happier and more cohesive teams.

Instructor

  • Andy Storey.

    Andy Storey

    Andy Storey is a Navy veteran with a wide range of ops, tech, and policy senior leadership experience from government service and both finance and tech sectors. He is a Leadership Coach at Harvard Business School, Senior Director of Labs at the Harvard Digital, Data, and Design Institute (D^3), and an adjunct professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Instructor

  • Madeline McNeely

    Madeline McNeely

    Madeline teaches Non-Profit leadership and Community Engagement at Harvard Extension School and is Coach, Facilitator and Coach Recruiter at Harvard Business School. Supporting clients to think in innovative ways and develop new habits to solve their most vexing challenges is her sweet spot.
PDP Participant Laura Myers

The lessons were appropriately scaled to what we learned and what we practiced. And I wanted to do more. At the completion of the program, I was ready to continue, to take the material to the next level, not only with the instructor but with the people in the program as well.

Laura Myers

Deputy Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Ohio University, Athens

Certificates of Leadership Excellence

The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.

This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.

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