How to succeed at team coaching: four top tips

Team coaching, ‘solutions circles’ or ‘case clinics’ is a cost-effective organisational coaching approach.  It empowers your groups and teams to discover solutions, foster innovation, improve communication, and enhance overall teamwork. In this post - based on my experience of leading dozens of team coaching events - I’ll share four top tips to make…

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Tips for innovating on longer L&D programmes

Tips for innovating on MAC programmes On longer L&D programmes, such as Manager as Coach (MAC), there are a range of ways you can innovate. For example, if you have the capacity, you can factor in a small amount of ‘scaffolding time’ – this is extra structure that enables you to…

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The 6 secrets to team away day events

You either love team-building events or you hate them. I dislike team away-days that are full of back-to-back speaker presentations. But I’d love to go to a paintball team away day. My favourite team away days are the facilitated ones, where we chat, explore ideas, innovate, and plan our new way forward…

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4 tips for best EDI practice when planning a staff training programme

1. Become aware: Reflect on your own equality, diversity and inclusion learning experiences : What do you bring to the table in terms of having experienced inequality, equality or privilege in learning? Where have you challenged discrimination when learning? When have learning opportunities 'opened easily'/'not opened' for you in ways that might…

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How to be resilient – the collaborative way

Are you... Feeling that you have a run out of steam, because you’ve been doing all the thinking and carrying out most of the actions? Even when WFH? Needing to be more resilient to stress, change or challenge?  Finding your solo actions are not having the impact that you hoped for? Facing a…

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Tips for moving 2 online mentoring and coaching

R u working with younger learners? R u moving to online mentoring or coaching? Here are some of my - not definitive - project planning thoughts, if you are planning to move to online mentoring and coaching and work in FE, schools, organisations and projects with younger learners: Project management: Moving online might be a…

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