StretchLearn Course
Learn the coaching skills that turn good managers into great leaders — one conversation at a time.
Course Overview
Most managers give answers. Great leaders ask better questions. This course teaches you the evidence-backed coaching skills used by ICF-certified coaches and executive development programs — adapted for the day-to-day realities of team leadership. You will learn how to open coaching conversations, surface limiting beliefs, hold people accountable, and measure behavioral change. No prior coaching experience required.
Learning Outcomes
Apply the GROW model to structure coaching conversations that move people from problem to action
Use open, curious, and insight-generating questions to help team members think for themselves
Demonstrate active listening techniques that build trust and uncover unstated concerns
Design a goal-alignment process that links individual ambitions to team and organizational outcomes
Give stretch assignments and accountability structures that sustain behavioral change
Recognize when to shift from coaching to directing and back again based on situation and readiness
Curriculum Preview
Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.
Understand the difference between coaching, mentoring, and directing — and learn the conditions under which each approach creates the most value. Shift your default from answer-giver to question-asker.
Master the GROW framework — Goal, Reality, Options, Will — and learn to ask open, curious questions that generate insight rather than confirm your own assumptions.
Develop the listening depth that makes coachees feel genuinely understood — the foundational condition for trust, insight, and behavior change.
Close the loop between insight and action by creating accountability structures, integrating coaching with feedback, and embedding coaching practices across your team.
Built for Application
This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.