York EXCEL 2025-26 – Program Info

From October 2025 to May 2026, participants will:

• Continue to grow their awareness and learn skills and strategies to strengthen and support their best work as Senior Leaders.
• Use Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, The Advice Trap to explore ‘coach‐likeness’ as a leadership tool.
• Develop skills that emphasize increased curiosity and offering advice a little more slowly, such as deeper listening, more effective questioning, and a coaching model to support the learning.
• Continue to deepen their understanding of communication through further exploration of Type Coach in coaching.
• Consider some more nuanced ideas for Senior Leaders such as power, dualities of leadership, leveraging the strengths of the team, managing challenging conversations, etc.
• Apply and practice skills and strategies, particularly those related to being more ‘coach-like’.
• Have the opportunity to participate in one-to-one coaching to build capacity to be more ‘coach-like’.
• Together, co-create the plan for meetings. They will also set personal goals.