"Cathy Lasher has been a facilitator for a senior DfT Action Learning Set I have been involved with over a period of 18 months. The group consisted of 5 senior individuals from a broad background. Cathy has the ability to support the individuals in the group and help mature their thinking but also provide a positive challenge function to the individuals to help them explore ways of broadening the effectiveness of their leadership style, improve their self awareness as well as identifying tangible areas for improvement and wider reflection for the individual concerned.
Cathy possesses an adeptness at getting to the nub of (often complex) issues faced by group members and her ability to ask the right questions to help explore with the individual what is sitting behind the issue raised is a particular skill and strength of her approach and style. This is a particular skill and has helped individuals address core development areas rather than just the symptoms. This has certainly helped me develop my leadership style over the past few years and I would have no hesitation in recommending Cathy for a role in other organisations."
Internal Coaching Programmes
We are delighted that coaching is becoming such an important and critical element within organisations that many companies are now setting up their own internal coaching functions, enabling a broader range of employees to experience 1-to-1 coaching as part of their professional development. 1-to-1 Executive Coaching was previously a service that had only been available to the most senior members of the management team.
We know from our own surveys and measurable client results that coaching can have a massive impact on performance:
- 100% of the managers surveyed, reported that they are now more effective as managers as a direct consequence of the coaching that they have received
- 96% reported that they found the Executive Coaching process to be more effective than traditional classroom training for management development
Results taken from an anonymous survey of 50 senior managers after our work with Birmingham City Council - read the full case study.
We are spending more of our time working with organisations to improve and develop their internal coaching functions and would love to see how we can help you too. Please call us for an informal chat on 0845 456 8217 or use our contact us form and we will get straight back to you.
Below we have outlined various ways we can help you whether you already have an established Internal Coaching Function or if you would like to create one from scratch.
For Organisations who do not currently have an Internal Coaching Function
- We start by offering you a consultative approach to help you establish the right strategy to meet your organisational needs and budget
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Once the strategy and purpose of the internal coaching function has been established we can help you with the selection process to choose the best candidates for th
e programme - Then we could train the Coaches either with a formal ILM accreditation (ILM7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring) or a shorter Coaching Skills programme as appropriate
- Finally we could support you in a variety of ways (including the options detailed below) to ensure the internal coaching function is a significant success and achieving high rates of utilisation, rave reviews and a good return on investment (we guarantee to deliver an ROI on any coaching or coach training we deliver)
For Organisations with an established Internal Coaching Function
If you are an HR professional who has already started to develop a coaching culture in your organisation there are a number of ways we can work with you to continue to up-skill your existing coaches:
- Coaching masterclasses on a wide range of subjects and in different formats to fit in with the organisational pressures of your coaches
- Introducing our innovative CPD for coaches programme (which can be on a bespoke e-learning platform for larger organisations, or individual audio CDs or MP3 downloads for organisations with only a few coaches)
- Coaching Workshops
- Coaching Supervision (Group or 1-to-1 sessions) with some of the most experienced coach supervisors in the UK
In all cases we are happy to offer a completely FREE and no obligation consultation with our Director of Coaching. Please do pick up the phone and call 0845 456 8217 for a chat or use our contact us form.
Our desire is to help you make your internal coaching function a huge success that regularly receives rave reviews from all who use it.
Something to think about...
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them."
John Whitmore
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