Coaching Your Team to Excellence and Promotability
1h 3mIntermediate2025-03-21
Authors

Lisa Gates
Leadership Coach, Career Story Sleuth
Course details
Managers who invest in coaching and developing their employees see those investments pay off when their employees stay, deliver excellence in their work consistently, and get promoted. In this course, designed for experienced senior-level managers, discover the Personal Excellence Story Map, a coaching framework from internationally-recognized coaching expert Lisa Gates to guide career development, build a unified value proposition for your team, and leverage storytelling for communicating impact. Along the way, get strategies for increasing the influence and reputation of your team and the organization writ-large.
Learning objectives
Apply a coaching framework that drives employee excellence and promotability.
Articulate team and employee impact and how that impact aligns with your company's mission.
Facilitate employee growth and development using the Personal Excellence Story Map (PESM) framework.
Communicate employee and team value effectively both internally and externally.
Learning objectives
Apply a coaching framework that drives employee excellence and promotability.
Articulate team and employee impact and how that impact aligns with your company's mission.
Facilitate employee growth and development using the Personal Excellence Story Map (PESM) framework.
Communicate employee and team value effectively both internally and externally.
Skills covered
Coaching and MentoringTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - A coaching framework for time-strapped managers
1. Knowing Yourself and Your Team
- 02 - Identifying your why as a people leader
- 03 - Coaching to unlock your people's why
2. Coaching with the Personal Excellence Story Map
- 04 - Introducing the personal excellence story map
- 05 - Capturing your current story
- 06 - Capturing experience and accomplishments
- 07 - Mining for your strengths and themes
- 08 - Mining for your career stories
3. Implementing the Personal Excellence Story Map
- 09 - Writing and practicing your moniker and headline
- 10 - Drafting your personal excellence statement
- 11 - Using your personal excellence statement for promotability
- 12 - Fine-tuning and practicing powerful stories
- 13 - Using a simple story structure
4. Developing Your Team's Influence Plan
- 14 - Creating a unified value proposition for your team
- 15 - Creating opportunities for visibility and contribution
- 16 - Aligning with your company's communication priorities
- 17 - Communication strategies for self-advocacy
Conclusion
- 18 - Making what you learn sticky