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Coaching as a Leadership Tool

How can you help people solve problems, build judgement and take greater ownership of their work?

When every decision travels upwards, leaders become bottlenecks and teams lose confidence. This course gives managers practical coaching skills for the everyday conversations that build capability, responsibility and better decision-making across the organisation.

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Price
SEK 9,820per participant, excluding VAT
Next date
Starts 11 March 2027
Duration
1 day + online follow-up
More details
Format
In person
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Venue
Details to follow
Language
Svenska
Designed by
Marius Ketels
  • Get the full programme (PDF)
  • Team delivery

What you’ll be better able to do

  • Judge when a situation calls for coaching and when it calls for advice or direction.
  • Run a short, structured coaching conversation that ends in a clear commitment, based on the GROW coaching model.
  • Listen beyond the first response to find the real issue, based on Carl Rogers' work on empathic, active listening.
  • Help colleagues take ownership of problems and decisions, so fewer issues travel upwards to you.

You leave with a practical coaching structure, a set of questions to replace default advice, and stronger listening skills to help others think more deeply.

Our learning approach

FLEX + PACE

FLEX + PACE is how we design learning at The Nordic Learning Company. Research-informed learning, designed for practice and lasting application.

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What the course draws on

The course draws on cognitive science and Carl Rogers' work on empathic, active listening and explores established coaching structures, such as GROW and OSKAR. Underneath both is the coaching mindset and powerful questions forming the fundamentals for goal-oriented, impactful conversations.

Price
SEK 9,820per participant, excluding VAT
Next date
Starts 11 March 2027
Duration
1 day + online follow-up
Format
In person
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Venue
Details to follow
Language
Svenska
Designed by
Marius Ketels
Register interest
  • Get the full programme (PDF)
  • Team delivery

Dates

  • 11 March 2027

    In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
    09:00–16:00SvenskaSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
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  • 18 May 2027

    In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
    09:00–16:00SvenskaSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
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  • 13 July 2027

    In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
    09:00–16:00EnglishSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
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  • 31 August 2027

    In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed
    09:00–16:00EnglishSEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT
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Price and what’s included

SEK 9,820 per participant, excluding VAT

Live online meet-up, 45-minute 1:1 coaching and a certificate of participation from The Nordic Learning Company.

For organisations

How many decisions still travel up to you that your managers could own?

We can run Coaching as a Leadership Tool privately for your organisation, using the conversations your managers actually have.

Tell us who the course is for, roughly how many people, and what you would like to be different afterwards. We will come back with a proposal.

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Course details

Programme & method+–
Day 1
In-person (09:00-17:00)
Session 1
Decide when coaching is the right response, rather than defaulting to advice or direction.
Session 2
Practise listening beyond first responses and asking questions that open clearer thinking.
Session 3
Use a simple structure to lead short, purposeful coaching conversations with confidence.
Day 2
Online, 2 hours (13:00-15:00)
Digital Meetup
Bring back a real conversation, reflect on what changed and refine your next coaching move.
Coaching session
Work through one leadership challenge and identify how to develop others’ judgement.

How you’ll learn

You'll be practising active listening and powerful questions in pairs or smaller groups, using a range of coaching frameworks and structures. The day ends with each participant committing to one change to try before the virtual meetup.

Evidence & methodology

Demonstration, structured practice, peer feedback and applied work with realistic leadership conversations.

Practicalities+–

Who it’s for

  • Managers and team leads.
  • Technical leads or senior specialists moving into people leadership.
  • Professionals whose role involves developing others.

What you need

  • No prior coaching training is required.

Getting here and where we work →

Designed by+–

Marius Ketels

Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.

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We use your details only to send you the course pack you asked for. We keep these details for 24 months after our last contact, then delete them. You can ask us for a copy or ask us to delete them at any time. See our privacy notice.

Before you book+–

When is the course confirmed?

A course is confirmed once six people have joined. We confirm your place separately, and ask you not to book travel until you have our confirmation.

What if someone cannot come after all?

Open sessions can be transferred to another date free of charge up to fourteen days before. Inside fourteen days, send a colleague in their place. Private programmes follow the terms agreed in the contract.
Booking terms →hej@nordiclearning.se

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