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Feedback and Coaching: Growing People Without Bruising Them

A specialist course on giving feedback that is heard, receiving it without flinching, and coaching by asking rather than telling. You will script, rehearse and record two conversations on your own, hold them for real if and when you can, and keep a written record of both.

CoreLeadershipCertificate
7 modules 48 lessons 10 enrolled ~9h of material
Feedback and Coaching: Growing People Without Bruising Them

By the end

What you'll build

  • Distinguish observation, interpretation and impact in any piece of feedback, and state each one separately
  • Deliver a piece of critical feedback in under two minutes using a four-part spoken structure
  • Write praise that is specific enough that it could not be copy-pasted to another person
  • Choose deliberately between feedback, evaluation and coaching before opening your mouth
  • Run a coaching conversation using a four-stage question arc from goal to commitment without giving advice
  • Hold a deliberate silence of at least ten seconds after asking a question
  • Receive hard feedback without defending, by buying time and asking for the specific example
  • Decide what to do with feedback you believe is factually wrong, without either swallowing it or dismissing it
  • Ask for feedback in a way that produces a concrete answer rather than "all good"
  • Repair a piece of feedback that landed badly, and design one routine feedback habit for a team

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

48 lessons across 7 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

A certificate at the end

Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.