Most organisations promote their strongest performers into leadership. Then wonder why they struggle. The skills that make someone an excellent analyst, clinician, engineer or specialist aren't necessarily the skills needed to develop, motivate and coach a team.
Traditional leadership training often tries to fix that with a workshop. Coaching on the Go takes a different approach: ten minutes a day, in the flow of real work.
You’ve promoted great people who now struggle to lead others.
Managers solve problems themselves instead of coaching their teams through them.
Leadership training makes sense in the room, but disappears back at work.
Your managers need practical coaching skills they can use in real conversations.
The answer isn't more management theory. It's building coaching skills into the way your managers already work.
say dealing with their boss is the most stressful part of their day
of companies globally report talent shortages
the cost of turnover driven by poor workplace culture since 2018
productivity uplift a good boss can deliver
Coaching on the Go takes a simple approach: diagnose the coaching skills your managers already have, identify where they can improve, then practise those skills in real conversations — little and often.
Start with the GIZMO diagnostic to understand how your managers currently coach and where development will make the biggest difference.
Turn the diagnostic into a personalised development plan — showing strengths, gaps and what to work on first.
Build the skills through real conversations — around ten minutes a day, inside the work managers are already doing.
Track progress, reinforce what’s working and identify where development should continue.
Leaders don't need to be coaches. They just need to use the fifteen skills.
Being present
Building trust and rapport
Changing perspectives
Confidentiality
Contracting
Creating actions
Creating awareness
Creative questions
Delegation
Generative listening
Giving feedback
Pause-Points (self)
Pause-Points (other)
Reflection
Self-awareness
No binders, no role-plays in a training room. The skills are practised in real conversations, with real people, on real work.
The GIZMO diagnostic and Skills Report show each manager where to focus their development.
Little-and-often practice helps new coaching behaviours become part of everyday leadership.
Around ten minutes a day — building coaching into the job rather than adding another training programme on top.
Leaders who develop their people instead of managing around them.
People who feel coached rather than controlled, and who go the extra mile for each other.
Leadership built on daily practice, not an annual training event.
People step forward, contribute, and stay.
Coaching on the Go can stand alone or form part of a wider leadership development programme. Either way, the next step is simple — tell Jon what's going on in your organisation.
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