Coaching and Mentoring ยท Build Others
Stop taking the work back
You want people to think, decide and handle more of the work. Yet it's often easier to give the answer, fix the draft or take the decision back. Then nobody else learns to handle it, and the work keeps coming back to you.
This course teaches you to tell what someone actually needs. Sometimes it's space to think: that's coaching. Sometimes it's a skill, an example or access they don't have yet: that's mentoring. Sometimes it's neither, and the fix is a clear instruction, a decision or a missing resource. Six on-demand lessons, each with a worked example and a practice attempt.
Founding price for the first 50 learners, who share honest feedback. Then $149. One-time payment, 365 days of access. All sales are final.
Three ways a leader takes the work back
- Answering too fast. Someone brings a problem they could solve, and you hand them your answer. It's quicker today and slower every day after.
- Asking when they need showing. Someone has never done the work, and you keep asking what they think. That isn't coaching. It's a guessing game.
- Calling a missing condition a mindset problem. The person lacks time, access or authority, and gets a conversation about ownership instead.
Each one feels like helping. Each one keeps the work with you.
Coach, mentor or neither
Check the conditions first. Capacity, Capability, Authority and Standard, then Will. If a permission, resource or standard is missing, the fix is yours to make or to route. More questions won't supply it.
Coach when the capability is there and the person is stuck in their thinking. SEE / ALIGN / ACT / REFLECT: hear their account, agree what good looks like, let them choose the next step, and review the attempt together.
Mentor when a specific capability is missing. OBSERVE / DIAGNOSE / DEVELOP / SUSTAIN: watch a real attempt, name the exact gap, transfer that one thing, and check it holds somewhere new.
These are the same two frames taught in The Present Leader. This course goes deeper on both, with more cases and full examples.
Six lessons, at your own pace
Each lesson has a short teaching video, a fictional worked example, practice cases and a 21-minute practice attempt with a retry. Then you use it in real work and ask the person affected what they noticed.
- 1
Choose the right response
Check the work conditions before choosing coaching, mentoring or another response.
- 2
Coach without taking over
Follow a coaching conversation from the first account through a later review.
- 3
Listen without steering
Ask questions that leave room for an answer you didn't choose.
- 4
Mentor the actual gap
Observe how someone works and match support to the specific gap.
- 5
Teach how you think
Make your reasoning visible, then let someone apply it to a different situation.
- 6
Follow through and step back
Review real attempts, adjust support and check what the person can do without you.
What you get
- Seven teaching videos with Rob: a welcome and one for each lesson.
- Worked examples and practice cases for every lesson, all fictional, so you can rehearse without bringing in a real colleague.
- A private workbook and a reference with both frames and the tools they connect to.
- An optional observed-practice guide if you want a partner to watch a practice round.
No partner is required. You do need real work to use it in, and a person you can ask what they noticed.
What it is and isn't
Finishing the course doesn't make you a certified coach, and it doesn't establish fluency on its own. Fluency means choosing the right frame and running it on real work, with evidence from the person you helped. The course gets you there step by step and keeps the difference honest.
Your notes and workbook stay with you. Nothing from the course may be used for pay, promotion or selection.
Where it fits
After the Climb. If your Leadership Climb result starts with Build Others, this is the next step. Bought the Climb Plan? Email [email protected] with your receipt and we'll send a $39 credit code.
With the Masterclass. The Present Leader Masterclass teaches both frames as part of all four promises. This course goes deeper on Build Others. When Masterclass enrollment opens, you'll be able to buy both for $399, or add this course to the Masterclass for $99.
For companies. Every leader in the company program gets this course as part of the program. Outside the program, company seats are $99 each for ten or more. Email us and we'll send an invoice.
Hand back the work, and mean it
Founding price $99 for the first 50 learners, then $149. One-time payment, 365 days of access. All sales are final.