Performance Coaching
Empower your team with transformative conversations.
In today’s fast-paced work environment, leaders often struggle with finding the right balance between providing feedback and fostering development.
Performance conversations can feel like difficult moments, and many leaders lack the skills to turn these moments into opportunities for real growth.
The question is:
How can you create meaningful coaching experiences that unlock potential, drive performance, and foster growth?
At NinthEdge, we believe that great leaders aren’t just feedback providers—they are coaches.
Our Performance Coaching program empowers leaders with the tools they need to move beyond traditional feedback and create coaching conversations that drive lasting performance improvements.
Program Overview
• Welcome and Introduction: Setting expectations for coaching and performance management conversations.
• Coaching vs. Feedback: Explore the differences between these crucial conversations and when to apply them.
• The Coaching Mindset: Understanding the mindset that makes effective coaching possible.
• Coaching Skills – Questions and Listening: Learn how to ask powerful questions and practice active listening.
• The GROW Conversational Structure: Applying the GROW model to structure your coaching conversations effectively.
• Practicing the Coaching Conversation: Engage in real-time practice sessions to refine your coaching techniques.
Target Audience:
People Leaders
Delivery Options:
Face-to-Face or Virtual Instructor-Led Training
You’ll learn to:
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Differentiate between feedback and coaching to understand when each is most effective.
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Develop a coaching mindset, focusing on awareness, responsibility, and self-belief.
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Ask powerful questions that promote reflection and insight, moving individuals to action.
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Use the GROW conversational framework to guide development-focused conversations that unlock potential.
Workshop Timing
One-Hour Webinar
• Clarifying the Skill
• Building Self-Awareness
• Action Planning
Half-Day Workshop
• Clarifying the Skill
• Building Self-Awareness
• Skill-Development
• Action Planning
Customizable with other NinthEdge Solutions
• Performance Feedback
• Leadership Transitions
• Managing Conflict
• Developing Your People
Leaders who have embraced performance coaching report:
Increased employee engagement. Individuals feeling more empowered and capable of solving their own challenges.
Greater alignment between goals and performance. Team members take ownership of their growth.
A culture of continuous development. Feedback isn’t a one-time event, but part of an ongoing dialogue that drives excellence.
Use Case
If performance conversations in your organization feel like awkward check-ins instead of growth opportunities
→ Why it matters: When leaders default to one-way feedback, employees disengage, feel unsupported, and miss the chance to develop real ownership of their performance.
→ How the program helps: Our Performance Coaching program equips leaders with the mindset, skills, and conversational frameworks to transform routine feedback into powerful coaching dialogues that unlock potential, build engagement, and drive lasting performance improvement.
How We Helped
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Are you ready to elevate your team’s performance?
Let’s explore how the Performance Coaching program can transform your leadership conversations.
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