How do managers become effective coaches?

By coaching real conversations, not by reading about coaching. In Coach Naturally, managers coach each other through actual stuck points from their own work and get feedback in the moment. They leave with their first coaching conversation already on the calendar. A habit starts with a first rep, and that rep happens before they walk out of the room.

Why do managers stop coaching after a workshop?

Most workshops hand managers a framework and send them back to a full calendar. The framework fades within a week and coaching becomes something they will get to later. What sticks is practice on real work, plus a coaching conversation booked before the session ends. Managers who have already coached once find the second one much easier to start.

How do you coach each person the way they think?

Read how they naturally approach work first. Coach Naturally uses four Natural Approaches: Natural Gold Mines, Natural Blue Oceans, Natural Green Planets and Natural Orange Skies. Each one hears a coaching question differently. When a manager knows which approach a team member leads with, they can pick the words and questions that land the first time.

What should a manager coach in the first 90 days?

Start with the work each person is stuck on right now, and coach one real conversation at a time. Use better questions instead of giving answers, so the team member finds the next step. Keep the first conversation on the calendar and book the next one at the end of it. By 90 days, coaching is a rhythm the team expects.

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Coach Naturally: Your Managers Mean to Coach. Why Do They Never Start?

Most coaching workshops hand managers a framework and send them back to a full calendar. In Coach Naturally, managers coach real conversations using the four Natural Approaches, and they leave with their first coaching conversation already booked.

Managers finish the day coaching, not promising to coach later, with their first real coaching conversation already on the calendar.

Level: Mid-level leaders, Frontline leaders, Store and service teams
Group size: 4 to 400+
Time: 1 hour to 2 days
Format: In person · Virtual
Languages: English
Business outcome: Talent insight, Execution

Proof

$26 million added in under a year

The Forzani Group (Sport Chek): store-manager coaching installed in the first 90 days, with Communicate Naturally and High Impact Coaching

“Together we added over $26 million to the bottom line in less than a year!”

— John Backewich, Manager of Training and Development, Forzani Group

How we measure

Assessment data plus a count, 30 days out, of the coaching conversations that actually happened.

Coach Naturally is the Learn2 coaching development that makes managers effective coaches. Your leaders learn the four Natural Approaches (Natural Gold Mines, Natural Blue Oceans, Natural Green Planets, Natural Orange Skies) and run real coaching conversations during the program. Not role plays, actual conversations about actual work. Managers finish the program coaching, not promising to coach later. Most coaching development installs frameworks managers forget. Coach Naturally installs the habit. Participants coach each other through real stuck-point conversations, get feedback in the moment, and leave with a scheduled first coaching conversation on their calendar. The Natural Approaches give them a simple read on each team member so coaching lands the first time. Coaching install stack: How to make peer coaching work + Peer coaching mechanics + Natural Approaches primer.

Develop the Coaching Techniques of Your Senior Management & Leaders

The coaching skills workshop starts by making sure managers and leaders remember to tailor the way they coach to suit the person that they are coaching. In this leadership development experience, participants deepen the understanding of each team member they work with and how to influence them to perform. We practice and apply coaching techniques with specific language, asking better quality questions and simple tools that reinforce the coaching behaviors that drive results. By increasing the understanding of each approach managers and leaders develop the coaching skills to support their team’s success.

I will be better able to connect with colleagues across the color pallet.

Find out what your team needs next

Complete the 3-minute Learn2 leader survey. We will send back a short read on how to support your team right now and the development they most likely need next.

Or, if you want to find your Learn2 program in 90 seconds, use the router.

What Participants Say

“Performance soars when managers and leaders are coaches who know how to bring out the best in their teams. This coaching skills development program is designed to help leaders learn the essential coaching techniques using the insightful and highly successful color metaphor.”

“Coach Naturally is an engaging and memorable coaching skill building program that creates the optimal conditions for learning – immersion, teamwork and fun – and brings your leaders together to take responsibility for their relationships and results.”

“The energy and passion for this program is outstanding and makes the process engaging and fun!”

“Always great to learn new tools. Doug walked us through this exercise in a non-threatening and supportive way! Thank you!”

“Your pocket career coach guides you through valuable Career Conversations”

What Your Team Takes Away

Ask better quality questions to get better results

Engage your team to collaborate quickly

Practice contributing to meetings to achieve the desired outcome

Build best practice implementation guides to enable everyone to take action

Transcribe the inputs within 48 hours to share

Full immersion makes remembering faster and easier

Find out your Natural Approach and how you impact others

Let the learning begin earlier

Gain traction across your organization as everyone starts talking about your program

This program includes videos and images to deepen learning

Your leaders and teams can apply this learning to anything

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do managers become effective coaches?: By coaching real conversations, not by reading about coaching. In Coach Naturally, managers coach each other through actual stuck points from their own work and get feedback in the moment. They leave with their first coaching conversation already on the calendar. A habit starts with a first rep, and that rep happens before they walk out of the room.
Why do managers stop coaching after a workshop?: Most workshops hand managers a framework and send them back to a full calendar. The framework fades within a week and coaching becomes something they will get to later. What sticks is practice on real work, plus a coaching conversation booked before the session ends. Managers who have already coached once find the second one much easier to start.
How do you coach each person the way they think?: Read how they naturally approach work first. Coach Naturally uses four Natural Approaches: Natural Gold Mines, Natural Blue Oceans, Natural Green Planets and Natural Orange Skies. Each one hears a coaching question differently. When a manager knows which approach a team member leads with, they can pick the words and questions that land the first time.
What should a manager coach in the first 90 days?: Start with the work each person is stuck on right now, and coach one real conversation at a time. Use better questions instead of giving answers, so the team member finds the next step. Keep the first conversation on the calendar and book the next one at the end of it. By 90 days, coaching is a rhythm the team expects.

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