• Coaching and mentoring

    Advanced Coaching Skills

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    Course overview



    Eligibility: This course is open to everyone with coaching experience.

    Coaching is a valuable skill that empowers individuals to solve problems, think creatively, and achieve goals. This practical one-day course, delivered by experienced and qualified coaches, will encourage you to explore different approaches to build your confidence as a coach, mentor, and manager. You will be guided through various models and methods, enhancing your ability to apply them with coaching clients or colleagues. This session is recommended as annual CPD for our council coaches and mentors.

    Course highlights:
    • Powerful coaching techniques: Explore simple yet effective coaching techniques to support and develop clients.
    • Practical application: Practice coaching frameworks and experiment with tools like coaching cards, toys, and creative methods to enrich conversations.
    • Reflective practice: Reflect on your experiences to assess your coaching skills and create a personalised development plan.
    • Competency review: Review coaching and mentoring competencies alongside the global code of ethics to ensure adherence to essential principles.
    • Advanced listening techniques: Learn advanced listening techniques and understand the contracting process as a mentor and coach.
    • Personal development: Facilitate personal growth through both coaching and being coached.

    • This course is designed to enhance your coaching skills, providing you with the confidence and tools needed to support and develop others effectively.

    Learning outcomes

    As a result of this course, you will:

    • Practice and enhance your coaching skills through practice of the GROW model and other models.
    • Practice different tools and techniques such as coaching cards, toys, and simple creativity.
    • Assess your own coaching skills by reflecting on your experiences and create a coaching development plan.
    • Review the coaching and mentoring competencies and the global code of ethics to understand the principles that coaches and mentors need to adhere to.
    • Learn and use techniques for advanced listening skills.
    • Understand the process of contracting as a mentor and coach; what needs to be included and why.
    • Understand the role of evaluation and creating psychological safety to gain honest feedback from clients.
    • Facilitate your own personal development experience both coaching and being coached.

    Charges

    For internal employees this course is fully funded. For external employees the charge for this course is £115.00. When you sign up you'll be able to book your place. We will contact you to arrange payment until we are ready to accept online payments.

    Please refer to our terms and conditions for more information.

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    • If you are eligible for this course, please go to the top of this page and click sign up, you’ll then be able to book a place and access the activities below.


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