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Coaching for Performance: Mid-Level and Senior Leaders

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Mid-Level and Senior Leaders

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Coaching for Performance: Mid-Level and Senior Leaders

Coaching for Performance: Mid-Level and Senior Leaders helps experienced leaders strengthen the coaching skills needed to develop other leaders, improve performance, and build leadership capability across the organization.

Coaching at the mid-level and senior level is different from frontline coaching. These leaders are often coaching managers, leading through others, supporting cross-functional teams, navigating competing priorities, and influencing performance across multiple layers of the organization. A one-size-fits-all coaching approach does not work when leaders are responsible for developing other leaders and creating a stronger coaching culture.

This advanced leadership coaching course helps participants shift from providing answers and sharing expertise to listening more intentionally, asking better questions, identifying root issues, and guiding others toward stronger ownership and decision-making. Leaders learn how to coach around behaviors that affect performance, engagement, retention, accountability, communication, and team effectiveness.

Participants leave with practical coaching strategies they can use to develop managers, support higher performance, and strengthen leadership effectiveness across teams.

Business Issue  This Course Helps Solve

Your Instructor

Organizations often need stronger coaching capability at the mid-level and senior level when:

  • Managers are not being developed consistently

  • Leaders rely too heavily on giving advice instead of building capability

  • Coaching conversations focus on tasks rather than behaviors and performance patterns

  • Leaders struggle to coach other leaders with confidence

  • High-potential managers need more targeted development

  • Performance, engagement, or retention issues are not being addressed early enough

  • Leadership teams want to build a stronger coaching culture

  • Employees receive inconsistent feedback or support from different managers

  • Leaders need to improve accountability without damaging trust or engagement

  • Senior leaders are expected to develop talent while also driving business results

This course helps organizations strengthen coaching effectiveness, improve leadership consistency, and create a more scalable approach to talent development.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for:

  • Mid-level leaders

  • Senior leaders

  • Leaders of leaders

  • Department heads

  • Functional leaders

  • Business unit leaders

  • Executives responsible for developing managers

  • HR leaders supporting leadership development or coaching culture initiatives


This course is best suited for leaders who coach managers, influence through others, or are responsible for building leadership capability beyond their direct team.

Delivery Options

Coaching for Performance: Mid-Level and Senior Leaders can be delivered as:

  • In-person leadership training

  • Virtual instructor-led training

  • Senior leadership development session

  • Mid-level leadership development session

  • Leadership team workshop

  • Standalone advanced coaching course

  • Module within a broader leadership development program

  • Customized offsite, retreat, or cohort-based experience

The course can also be paired with one-on-one coaching for leaders who need additional individualized support.

Recommended Course Duration

3.5 Hours

Participant Outcomes

As a result of this course, participants will be better able to:

  • Understand the role mid-level and senior leaders play in coaching performance, development, and leadership effectiveness

  • Use coaching as a strategic leadership practice, not only as a response to performance issues

  • Coach subordinate leaders and direct reports through complex business, people, and execution challenges

  • Ask stronger questions that help others think critically, solve problems, and take ownership

  • Listen for patterns, barriers, assumptions, and development needs during coaching conversations

  • Provide feedback that strengthens accountability, confidence, and leadership growth

  • Support high-potential employees and subordinate leaders with more intentional development conversations

  • Balance coaching, direction, and accountability based on the situation and individual need

  • Reduce dependency by helping others make better decisions and own next steps

  • Strengthen leadership capability across teams by coaching leaders to coach others

  • Connect coaching conversations to business priorities, team performance, engagement, and succession readiness

  • Build a more consistent coaching culture through clearer expectations, follow-through, and leadership modeling

Assessment / Other Details

This course may include a behavioral, leadership, or emotional intelligence assessment to help participants better understand their coaching style, communication tendencies, listening habits, and potential blind spots. Assessment results can be used to help leaders identify how their approach may affect trust, accountability, motivation, and performance conversations. When appropriate, the course can also be paired with 360-degree feedback or leadership assessment tools to create a deeper coaching development experience.

Next Steps

Strong coaching at the mid-level and senior level builds stronger managers, stronger teams, and stronger business execution.

Contact Talent Authority to discuss how Coaching for Performance: Mid-Level and Senior Leaders can help your organization develop leaders who coach with greater confidence, clarity, and impact.

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