RIHEL Coaching Workshops
Coaching Workshops
A two-session workshop that explores fundamental coaching skills and practices.
Introduction to Coaching
This workshop explores fundamental coaching skills and practices that can be used for coaching or in everyday interactions to improve communications, foster new thinking, and produce meaningful outcomes. We distinguish how coaching is different from other support roles such as mentoring, managing and consulting, and discuss the benefits of coaching, especially for those who lead or manage others. The workshop emphasizes core coaching skills that heavily influence communication and relationship efficacy: listening, asking, and encouraging. Through group discussion, we will identify listening best practices, and the nature of powerful questions. The workshop also introduces the “GEM” coaching model for how to frame and phrase questions powerfully to elicit insight, discovery, new thinking, and new pathways for action and results.
Workshop participants have the opportunity to observe a coaching demonstration, practice using coaching skills and the “GEM” coaching model, and receive constructive peer feedback to build and strengthen their coaching competencies. In addition, each participant creates a personal plan for incorporating and implementing these coaching practices in their lives.
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What Our Attendees Have to Say
"I thought that this workshop was fun and full of great information. I took the workshop to expand my professional portfolio and think this is a wonderful way to gain a new skill and learn to be a good leader in the workplace.”
– December 2020 Attendee
“This was a very informative and helpful training, with lots of opportunities to practice the learned skills in the moment!”
– December 2020 Attendee
Wednesdays, May 11 and May 18, 2022, 9:00am – 12:00pm (MDT) both days
Given the COVID-19 pandemic and current public health safety concerns, this workshop is only being offered via Zoom videoconference at this time. The workshop is limited to 25 participants and is delivered over two days (3 hours each day). The workshop sessions are highly interactive, including breakout groups and practice exercises.
This workshop will not be recorded and participants should be prepared to attend all sessions in person.
Early Bird Registration Rate: $150 (through April 8th)
Regular Registration Rate: $175
Registration closes May 8, 2022
Due to limited seating, we request that you cancel at least three business days before the start of the training. This gives us the opportunity to fill the class.
Cancellations made:
- 7 business days or more in advance of the training date – the registration will be 100% refunded.
- 24 hours to 6 business days in advance of the training date – no refund will be processed, but the registration may be transferred to another person, to a future date for the same training, or to another RIHEL program of equal or lesser value.
- Less than 24 hours in advance of the training date – no refunds or transfers will be processed.
To request a registration change or cancellation, please submit the details of your request through the contact form at the bottom of this event web page and a staff member will follow up to complete your request
The Coaching Academy is limited to 18 participants per class and is OPEN TO:
Graduates of one of RIHEL’s comprehensive leadership programs- :
- Advanced Leadership Training Program (ALTP)
- Advanced Physicians Leadership Program (APLP)
- Leadership for Healthy Community Design (LHCD)
- Primary Care Movers and Changers (PCMAC) program
- The RIHEL Introduction to Coaching workshop (or an equivalent training)
- Experience being coached by either a peer or professional coach (see RIHEL’s personal coaching services)
The intent of the above requirements is that this is not a participant’s first exposure to coaching. That all participants come into the Coaching Academy with at least some introductory familiarity with coaching. If you have any questions about these requirements or feel that your situation is a special exception, please use the contact form at the bottom of this page to reach out to the Coaching Academy Director.
TIME COMMITMENT. Participants must commit the time required to complete assignments and participate in all of the training sessions.
- The sessions take place in person or via videoconference using Zoom.
- Assignments between sessions include readings, self-assessments, on-line discussions, coaching practice, brief reports, and reviewing recorded coaching sessions.
TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES. Participants must have access to the hardware and software to participate in distance learning. The program cannot assume any costs for the computer and communication systems used by participants.
COVID VACCINATION. All participants must have received all available COVID vaccinations, including at least one booster.
CONSENT TO PROGRAM POLICIES AND AGREEMENTS. All participants must consent and commitment to the 2023 RIHEL Coaching Academy Policies and Agreements.
Tuition for the 2023 Coaching Academy is $6,800* and includes:
- all program instruction
- 10 hours of mentor coaching
- performance evaluation of one coaching session recording
- snacks and lunch at all in-person sessions
- student notebook
- additional program materials**
- online learning management and learning community platform
- access to Zoom video conferencing
*Tuition is subject to change for future programs.
**Program materials for virtual sessions will be provided electonically by RIHEL. Participants are responsible for printing those session materials as needed. Other program materials include two books, which participants are responsible for acquiring themselves:
- The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others Grow by John H. Zenger and Kathleen Stinnett. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (2010).
- Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills by Tony Stoltzfus. Publisher: Coach22 Bookstore LLC (2008).
Transportation expenses to and from the in-person sessions are the responsibility of the partcipant.
Payment
The tuition must be paid in advance of the program start date. Arrangements can be made for an individual payment schedule upon request. Please use the contact form at the bottom of this page to inquire about an individual payment schedule. RIHEL accepts payment by check, ACH, or credit card. All payments will be in U.S. dollars.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
Coaching Academy 2023 registration cancellations must be made by March 14, 2023 (a minimum of 15 business days prior to the first date of the program) to be eligible for a full refund. Cancellations made less than 15 business days before the course are not eligible for a refund. Written notice of cancellation shall be effective on the date the withdrawal is received by RIHEL. Refunds will be made within 45 days following receipt of cancellation or withdrawal requests.
Modifications to registration, including substitutions of participants or transfer of course dates, must be completed at least 10 business days before the first date of the program. Program changes will be allowed as long as there are spots available.
Please use the contact form at the bottom of this page to request a refund, cancellation, or modifications to your registration.
Instructor: Leanne Jeffers, MPH, ACC, CMC
Program Director, Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership
Leanne Jeffers, MPH, PCC is the Director of Coaching Services and the Leadership for Healthy Community Design (LHCD) Program at the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL). For over 30 years, Leanne has worked in the health and public health sectors, with an emphasis on professional development, coaching, healthy community design, community health, and health promotion. Leanne earned her Master of Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles, her Professional Certified Coach designation from the International Coaching Federation and is a graduate of both the National Public Health Leadership Institute and the RIHEL Advanced Leadership Training Program.
As the Director of RIHEL’s Coaching Services, Leanne manages the coaching programs within RIHEL’s comprehensive leadership programs, oversees RIHEL’s personal coaching services, and directs the Coaching Academy, an accredited coach training program. Since 2000, she has been coaching individuals and groups and training others to be peer and professional coaches.
Additionally, Leanne is a core faculty member for RIHEL’s comprehensive leadership programs and a lead RIHEL trainer, delivering a variety of workshops for organizations and professional associations around the U.S. She is a a certified facilitator of The Leadership Challenge Workshop, and a certified administrator for both the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment and the Influence Style Indicator. Leanne also offers mental fitness training and coaching through the Positive Intelligence (PQ) framework.
Since starting with RIHEL in 2003, Leanne has also managed the RIHEL Advanced Leadership Training Program (ALTP), coordinated Emergency Preparedness training for public and environmental health professionals, and provided training, facilitation and coaching to build professional and community capacity in the area of healthy community design. Leanne served on the Denver Regional Council of Governments Metro Vision Planning Advisory Committee for two years (2012-2014), was on the Governing Board of Directors for WalkDenver for five years (2015 – 2019; Chair 2017-2019) and is serving her second year as a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee with the Colorado Chapter of the International Coaching Federation.
Questions Regarding the Coaching Academy or registration process?
Please contact Leanne Jeffers, Program Director, through the form below,
or call her at 303-871-3550.
