Core Skills in Coaching & Mentoring for Advisors, Mentors and Teachers

Embed core coaching skills into your professional toolkit to accelerate and heighten your ability to connect clients, colleagues and students with their current performance and with their true potential.

For advisors, mentors and teachers, enabling others is already at the heart of their role. Led by our experienced coaching associates, this programme will introduce you to new ways of working, providing you with the essential coaching and mentoring skills and techniques for you to develop your work.

We believe that practice leads theory by a long way when it comes to learning to be a coach or mentor, so you will be working in small groups, working on real material, with a group of peers to learn from and supported by two coaches who will remain with you throughout your programme.

In programme:

  • Defining what coaching is
  • The role of advice in coaching
  • Noticing, summarising and reflecting back
  • Developing the key skills of listening and questioning
  • Giving information in a coaching style
  • Empathy and rapport - confidentiality
  • Working with strengths
  • How to give and receive feedback
  • Accountability in coaching
  • Change
  • Coaching Practice
  • Positive Psychology
  • More about questions
  • Understanding change

Course Delivery

4 x half day seminars – an introduction to core skills

2 x half day seminars – reflections on coaching practice

One-to-one coaching session with one of our Associates

Upcoming course dates:

15th January: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

16th January: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

22nd January: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

23rd January: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

19th February: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

20th February: 9.30 - 12.30 Zoom

Accreditation Options at Foundation Level

Participants have the option to:

Receive a certificate of attendance from Guildhall Ignite.

Or

Receive the Guildhall Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring, accredited by the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) at Foundation Level.

To gain accreditation participants must submit a completed Learning Log. Your Learning Log will include:

  • A record of 50 hours of mentoring-coaching (including prior experience and post course experience)
  • Client notes on coaching-mentoring sessions
  • Reflective diary on your sessions
  • Reflective notes on the training seminars and coaching practice
  • 30-minute audio recording of a 1:1 mentoring-coaching with one of the people you have worked with (you will receive feedback on this from one of our trainers)
  • Feedback from two of the people you have worked with

What recent participants say

A fantastic course that gives a powerful insight into what coaching is and the transformative effects it can have. A practical programme that has challenged my thinking and given me a new outlook on the work I do.

It was a fascinating and truly rewarding experience. The course is challenging and enlightening and the instructors were excellent and very easy to work with.

Uplifting, challenging, supportive: the tutors are warm, inspiring and hugely experienced.

The teaching was excellent in quality, flexibly delivered and student-led and I met a fascinating and supportive group of peers. I have the coaching bug!

This course has full equipped me with the skills to coach and mentor others seeking to bring about change. I felt nurtured and supported by the tutors and learned from their wealth of experience. I also learned a lot from my peers in the class as we all brought different experiences and skills to our work together and we were open and honest with our feedback. A hugely enjoyable, challenging and inspiring experience. Thank you!

 

 

Get in touch

Connect with one of our experienced Associates for a free discovery call

Email us at ignite@gsmd.ac.uk to ignite your performance – what will you spark?

 

 

 

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