Professional Development Session + Networking Dinner

We're offering an optional two-hour professional development session presented by Marina Shearer prior to our Networking Coaches Dinner.

The training session will be 3-5pm

Networking 5-6pm

Dinner 6-8.30pm

Training Session $49 + GST

Professional Coaches Networking Dinner $80 + GST

The session, Challenging Coachee Situations, is designed for experienced coaches and will explore practical ways to navigate some of the coaching conversations we all find challenging.

CHALLENGING COACHEE SITUATIONS

Professional Development for Coaches

Even the most experienced coach will encounter coaching conversations that feel difficult, complex or simply stuck.

What do you do when a coachee:

• has plenty of insight but takes no action?

• continually returns to the same problem?

• resists challenge or becomes defensive?

• expects you to provide the answers?

• says very little—or talks so much that it is difficult to reach the real issue?

• has been sent to coaching but does not genuinely want to participate?

• presents a situation that may sit beyond the boundaries of coaching?

  
  

During this practical and interactive professional-development session, Marina Shearer will introduce a range of challenging coachee scenarios and techniques to help you respond with greater confidence and skill.

Together, we will explore what may be happening beneath the presenting behaviour, how our own coaching tendencies can influence the conversation, and how to balance empathy and psychological safety with courageous challenge.

We will consider practical ways to:

• recognise the patterns keeping a coachee stuck

• explore resistance with curiosity rather than judgement

• challenge without becoming confrontational or directive

• avoid rescuing or working harder than the coachee

• establish appropriate boundaries

• turn insight into meaningful and sustainable action

• recognise when coaching may no longer be the appropriate intervention

  
  

You will have opportunities to discuss realistic scenarios with other professional coaches, consider different approaches and add new questions and techniques to your coaching toolkit.

Come prepared to reflect, contribute and explore the situations that test us and ultimately help us become more thoughtful, courageous and effective coaches.

Ticket Terms & Conditions

Tickets are non-refundable, as venue and event costs are committed in advance based on attendee numbers. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer or resell your ticket to another suitable person. Please notify Marina of the new attendee's name and contact details prior to the event. By purchasing a ticket, you acknowledge and agree to these terms.