Coaching Skills for Managers
This coaching skills for managers Dublin programme gives leaders the practical tools to shift from task-management to people-development. Rather than directing and controlling, you’ll learn to ask better questions, listen at a deeper level and draw out solutions from your team — building the kind of coaching culture where people take ownership, perform at their best and stay engaged.
Unlike generic leadership courses, this manager coaching training Ireland programme uses NLP and Neuro-Semantics to go beyond surface-level techniques. As a result, the shift you make as a manager is lasting — not just a set of skills learned for the day, but a genuine change in how you lead every conversation.
In practice, this is a rapid, highly focused coaching skills session. We introduce the GROW model as a foundation, then go further — giving managers the precise language tools to coach with far greater impact, drawing on 20 years of coaching experience to give managers the most effective language tools available. You’ll learn by watching coaching in action, with Shiera coaching individuals live in the room. It’s about absorbing coaching as a leadership style, not studying it as a theory.
“I can’t recommend Shiera highly enough in helping to bring a coaching culture to our business. Shiera was instrumental in supporting the development of a management coaching culture which fundamentally improved business performance, ownership values and the listening skills of our team members through her meta coaching approach!”
— D. McConn, CEO, The Big Bus Company
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Who Will Benefit Most from This Coaching Skills Training?
This leadership coaching skills programme is designed for anyone who leads people and wants to do it better. If any of these sound like you, this training was built for you.
What You’ll Learn on This Coaching Skills Course
This practical coaching skills for managers programme is built around skills you can use immediately. By the end, you will be able to:
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Why This Manager Coaching Training Stands Out
This isn’t just another leadership course. Here’s what makes this coaching skills training Ireland different:
“It is certainly worth your while organising a conversation with Shiera and considering a coaching project with her. I am confident this process will lead to a positive shift in mindset for you and your team and if the outcomes are properly employed will lead to concrete improvement in results down the line.”
— R. Curran, Director, India & S.E. Asia, Enterprise Ireland
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Your Coach in Dublin
Shiera O’Brien is one of Ireland’s most experienced executive coaches and trainers, with over 20 years working with managers, leaders and teams across Dublin and globally. Her background combines accredited NLP and Neuro-Semantics coaching with real-world business experience — including senior roles at IBM — giving her a uniquely practical understanding of what great management actually looks like under pressure.
A Coaching Approach That Changes How Managers Think
Shiera’s approach to coaching skills for managers in Dublin goes far deeper than frameworks and models. Instead, she works on the mindset behind the management — how a manager sees their role, their team and themselves. As a result, the managers she trains don’t just adopt new techniques. They fundamentally shift how they lead.
With over 3,000 professionals trained across 20 years — from frontline managers to C-suite executives — Shiera designs every programme around the real challenges your managers are facing. Furthermore, whether you need a one-day team workshop or an ongoing coaching programme, every session is customised to deliver measurable results for your organisation.
“Go into a room with Shiera and I promise that you will come out inspired, enthused and focused on whatever it is you want to achieve. She is one in a million and I can’t recommend her highly enough for her coaching.”
— Gai G., Writer, Ireland
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Coaching Skills for Managers — FAQs
Not sure if this training is right for you or your team? Here are the most common questions. Or simply book a free 15-minute call to talk it through directly.
This is a rapid, practical coaching skills session that introduces the GROW model as a foundation, then builds on it — giving managers the precise language tools to coach with far greater impact, drawing on 20 years of coaching experience to give managers the most effective language tools available. You’ll learn by watching coaching in action, with Shiera coaching individuals live in the room. It’s about absorbing coaching as a leadership style, not studying it as a theory.
Standard coaching models like GROW give you a structure. Meta-coaching goes deeper — it works at the level of thinking, language and meaning. In practice, this means your managers learn to listen for what’s really being said, ask questions that shift perspective at a deeper level, and use language that unlocks insight rather than simply moving through a framework. The result is coaching conversations that create genuine, lasting change in the people being coached.
The session is built around watching coaching in action. Rather than lecturing on theory, Shiera coaches individuals live in the room — so participants see exactly how a skilled coach uses language, questions and presence in a real conversation. This makes the learning immediate and concrete. Participants leave not just knowing about coaching, but having seen and felt what great coaching looks like, and having the language tools to begin applying it straight away.
Familiarity with a coaching framework like GROW is helpful, as this session builds on that foundation rather than covering the basics. However, the most important thing is that your managers are open to developing a coaching style of leadership. Furthermore, prior experience of being coached — or coaching others informally — will help participants get the most from the session.
Immediately. The whole design of this session is around rapid, applicable learning. Because the focus is on language tools and conversational technique — rather than lengthy frameworks — managers can use what they learn in their very next one-to-one or team conversation. In fact, many participants report a noticeable shift in how their team responds within days of the session.
Yes — in-house delivery is the most popular format for this programme. It allows the whole management team to go through the experience together, creating a shared coaching language across your organisation. Sessions are available in Dublin, nationwide, and online for remote or hybrid teams. Book a free 15-minute call to discuss the best format for your team.
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