Time:
The exercises in this module will take about 30 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 45 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To explore the benefits of different approaches to developing others.
• To help participants choose the most appropriate approach for developing others in a given situation.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Team Leaders, supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
This module is suitable for anyone who has responsibility for developing others in the workplace: Team leaders, supervisors or managers.

It is a useful addition to coaching skills courses and can help participants understand when a coaching approach might be appropriate and when it might not be.

Remote/Virtual Delivery:
There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library.

Time:
This exercise will take about 25 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 50 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To enable participants to understand what workplace coaching is.
• To agree a shared definition of workplace coaching.
• To explain the key differences between coaching and mentoring.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
Coaching has a long history going right back to Socrates, who believed that individuals learn best when they have ownership of a situation and take some form of personal responsibility for the outcome that is produced.

In more recent times, coaching has played a crucial and effective role in sports, including tennis and football.

However, the potential for coaching as a professional and organisational development approach has only really been recognised in the last decade. Tim Gallwey was perhaps the first to document this movement of coaching from the sporting arena to business, presenting a method of coaching which could be readily applied to almost any situation. His innovative work has been very influential and underpins current approaches to coaching.

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
This exercise will take about 25 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 60 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To identify the core skills required by effective coaches.
• To enable participants to describe the GROW coaching model.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
This is one of a series of modules that provide an in-depth introduction to workplace coaching. We recommend using these modules together.

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
This exercise will take about 45 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 75 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise their coaching skills.
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise using the GROW model.
• To provide an opportunity for participants to practise questioning, listening and summarising.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
• A room with sufficient space for participants to work in pairs and hold a coaching conversation.
• Copies of the coach and coachee briefings - one of each for each participant.

Notes:
This is one of a series of modules that provide an in-depth introduction to Workplace Coaching. We recommend these modules together.

If you have not already run the module called Workplace Coaching - The How, you will need to give participants the handout before running the exercise and explain the GROW model/process to them. If you need more information on this, please refer to "Workplace Coaching - The How".

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
The exercise in this module will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 40 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To provide an opportunity for participants to think about how they'll use the GROW model back in the workplace.
• To encourage participants to think about the questions they'll use to facilitate use of the GROW model.
• To review the GROW model.
• To review key learning points about workplace coaching.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
Participants will need to be very familiar with the GROW coaching model before participating in this exercise. They should also have a sound understanding of when coaching is appropriate and when it is not. (Workplace Coaching 3 or Learning - Push or Pull? are both great options to do this).

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
The exercise in this module will take about 20 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 35 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To explain the importance of keeping a record of coaching sessions that is both helpful to the coach and the person being coached.
• To introduce a simple plan that participants might like to use in their coaching sessions.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
This module provides a simple plan for recording the key elements of a coaching session, which can be easily replaced by an organisation’s existing format, if required.

A slightly tweaked version of Patsy’s Pie Making Challenge would be a great precursor to this module, because it’s a really fun way to emphasise the importance of note taking to aid our recollection of conversations. To find out how to do this get in touch via email or send us a Design Coach request and we can explain what you’ll need to do.

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
The exercise in this module will take about 30 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 40 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To remind participants of some of the key learning points about workplace coaching.
• To provide a fun but thorough review of learning.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
A useful and fun conclusion to any training around workplace coaching.

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.

Time:
This exercise will take about 15 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 20 minutes for completion.

Aims:
• To demonstrate the benefit of using open questions when gathering information.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

You'll Need:
Post its and pens.

Article Overview:
This article looks at how coaching can help people achieve a healthy work life balance. Apparently, a survey by CIPD found that professionals in the UK would sacrifice up to 40% of their annual salary in order to achieve a better work life balance.

Opening Words:
A survey by the CIPD claimed that professionals in the UK would sacrifice up to 40% of their annual salary – an average £13,253 a year - if it meant achieving better work-life balance.

Why has work-life balance become such a hot topic in recent years? The sheer number of choices available today can leave the average professional sinking under a mountain of obligations, leisure activities and family commitments.

Entertainment for our grandparents was limited to a sing-song round the piano and, for their children, a game of hop scotch in the car-free street outside. They didn’t have to spend their weekends searching for the elusive best deal on new cars, fridges or the bewildering array of media technology available today; and two weeks in Yarmouth provided an annual treat, without hours of net-surfing for that last-minute, dream holiday.

Useful Reading For:
Anyone involved in coaching or looking at how coaching can affect our lives.