CS4L aims to radically transform leadership, through 1 or 2 key lasting behavioural shifts that decrease the amount of time spent on oversight and increase your team’s engagement, understanding, and ownership of their key responsibilities.

The emphasis is on equipping you with tools and insights that will establish impactful leadership behaviours, not for you to leave with lots of new knowledge. Knowledge is only useful when it translates into changed behaviour and, as people, we typically can only shift 1 or 2 behaviours at any time.

Our aim is for you to leave with new behaviours, and new ways of leading, that result in you having more time to focus on your responsibilities and as a byproduct, reduce your stress because of the confidence and communication upgrade this will lead to for you and your team.

Anita Bakker and Gil Davidson are pioneers in the coaching profession and have been influential in moving coaching from the fringe to mainstream adoption in their region since the early 2000s. A combination of their passion for the impact of leaders and their integration of insights from diverse respected Coaching Certifications powerfully underpins their design work.

This program is NOT designed for coaches, but to equip leaders with coaching skills in their leadership context. After years of coaching leaders, they identified key patterns that create bottlenecks leading to stress, inefficiencies, and a breakdown of trust within teams. They isolated simple shifts that have life-giving impact for both leaders and those they work with.

They also recognised that these shifts are easy to know, but not easy to implement. Effectively making the shifts first requires the internal practice of self-examination and the dismantling of beliefs and habits. This program creates those shifts.

Elements identified as core to successful outcomes are self-discovery, shared learning, and contextual application which takes time and require engagement.

Their rigor in avoiding the temptation to ‘educate’ or ‘tell’, meticulously curating every element with purpose and intent to ensure the greatest impact is what gives this program its power. Confident of the impact the program would have, they were surprised the first time they delivered it that the outcomes were even greater than their expectations.

Leaders who are :

1. Serious about seeing a tangible change in your leadership
2. Willing to go through the discomfort of positive change
3. Committed to investing the time necessary to succeed in this program – both in attending weekly sessions and doing the prep work in between sessions

If you are looking for a quick theoretical understanding of coaching we recommend the books; Co-active Coaching, Executive Coaching (O’Neill), or Coaching for performance, but not this course.

This is focused on practical adoption of coaching skills NOT pure theoretical understanding. The content provided is a skeleton on which to build your coaching muscle and healthy leadership body through an emphasis on interactive, experiential learning.

At an office level, you can expect, over time, to see greater engagement and vibrancy.

At individual team member level, not only does ownership increase, but because of that, excitement, initiative, innovation and trust increase as well. You will witness the productivity of your whole team increase without being at the expense of anybody’s wellbeing.

“My team wanted to come in and vent, instead, I got them to figure out a solution to their problem.

It’s been such fun to see my new direct report come alive. Seeing him think for himself, and start to make decisions by himself. You don’t have to sacrifice development and movement while developing your people.”

“Letting go a little more – trusting what my staff are able to achieve – letting go so they can achieve more and I can do more”

“What shifted for me is that when I now allow my direct report to lead our one-on-one meetings, I’ve handed ownership to her with my role being to listen and facilitate.
It’s given her more confidence to put anything on the agenda – turning the meetings into a conversation with shared accountability”

“I have let go of the idea that a good leader shouldn’t be vulnerable, do it with a smile on my face, even when I’m drowning. I’m now Honest when I need help.”

The time commitment is roughly 2-3 hours per week for the first 12 weeks and then 1-2 hours per month for 6 months.

Review our syllabus for a more precise weekly breakdown.

• Internet speed supports zoom without lagging
• Functional microphone and webcam
• Do not disturb function enabled (on phone and laptop) during sessions

Not sure where to start with technical requirements? Once you register for the program you will be able to book a call with our in house tech support to get you all setup.

All participants will be signing a form to commit to confidentiality, but more importantly, we expect mutual respect and sensitivity from all participants in CS4L. Anyone who violates this agreement will be removed from the program immediately. A sense of safety is imperative for this to be effective for all involved.

Two highly skilled, ICF-certified coaches will co-facilitate the main learning sessions, supported by a wonderful tech support person who will also lead the virtual group learning sessions.

The success of CS4L is dependent on participants’ engagement. If you commit to this program you are committing to being prepared to fully engage in every session. If you are not fully engaged it will not only rob you of the experience but will also impact the rest of the group given the interactive nature of the program.

“Knowingness”! If you are saying to yourself, “I already know this”, it’s a red flag.

This program is not about knowledge of best leadership practices or the theory of coaching, but rather the shifting of beliefs and behaviours as a result of understanding the principles and putting them into action…even in difficult situations.

Initially it may feel slow and difficult as you do the personal work to shift into a coaching mindset, but it will be worth it in the long run.

You will have individual and group fieldwork. To view a detailed weekly breakdown you can view the syllabus.

Additionally, we will be sending out a reminder email each week containing the tasks to be completed before the next session to make it easier for you to stay on track.