Come and join the Weald Coaching & Mentoring Community which has just been launched and kicks off in February!
With the clocks going back this weekend (30th October), everyone in the UK gains an hour, so I've launched the ONE HOUR campaign. The idea is that I spend this spare hour helping someone to experience some wonderful coaching or supervision! You could do something similar too...
Do you believe that even senior managers and execs could benefit from a little coaching?! I thought you might but executive coaching brings special challenges: - Execs want to change certain behaviours, often quite quickly - yet these behaviours have been learnt and established over several careers and may have become ingrained, making change harder.
Developing internal talent is not always easy to do, so I've designed a cost-effective programme of intensive learning that will bring the best out of the people there and take them to a higher level of performance. Using self-directed learning principles at its core, this programme blends together the best tools for accelerating the learning by using a range of support for team leaders to access.
The initial workshops for mentors participating in the NHS Trust Mentoring Programme 'Step Ahead', were well received. The programme will run for approx. 9 months and is focused on developing talent and careers within the Trust. The workshops were aimed at preparing the mentors well for their initial meetings with mentees, and included the topics of: Mentoring principles and foundations for good practice mentoring.
Calling all active coaches and line managers who regularly coach their staff, plus HR/L&D professionals who coach others, internal coaches, trainers, project leaders and consultants who coach, professional coaches, life/personal growth coaches, business coaches, sports/performance coaches. I'm providing a series of local group supervision meetings to support coaches in finding the resources they need to thrive, and to deepen their practice. Certificates of supervision will be provided, based on regular attendance and an active CPD log.
I've recently joined the Association for Coaching as a full member, and am going for full accreditation as a coach in July. Having recently attended AC's 'Going Global' international conference, I was very impressed at their professionalism, organisation and friendliness.
We ran a successful workshop for the London Coaching Group last night (25th March). Ian and I teamed up to run a 'Mindfulness and Presence' workshop for approx 25 lovely coaches. We really enjoyed working with these informed coaches and some of their feedback included: "A lovely, collaborative energy in the room" "Enjoyed opportunity to experience this and try it out" "Great to hear two thoughtful and inspiring coaches!" "Good relaxed pace and discussion with few Power-points" "The exercises were quite powerful - liked speaking/listening exercise best" "Enjoyed this talk and will be taking this forward to develop my own presence" "Really enjoyed the session - fantastic discipline to review" "I would have liked to hear how the speakers developed their mindfulness and presence more" "Brilliant! Thank you" To view the slides we used, please go to Articles and click on the link there. We are keen to run a full day event on this topic, and we were offered space in London to run this by one of the group! So please contact Ian or me to arrange a suitable date soon.
