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Are you looking for your managers to be able to improve their communication skills, develop their teams 'every day' and 'in the moment' and have the ability to hold better conversations? 

Notion’s STAR^® model is the first Operational Coaching^® model designed solely to help Managers to develop coaching as a habitual behaviour by adopting an ‘Enquiry-Led Approach (ELA^®)’. This calls upon the Manager to resist the urge to tell others what to do – not just once or twice – but in their everyday interactions.  And the results are powerful.

This ‘rounding off’ process offers us a welcome opportunity to enjoy the status quo before moving into an unknown New Year – but just for a moment.

Productivity is a critical issue threatening the future competitiveness of the UK economy.

In fact, recent government figures highlighted the biggest gap between the UK and other leading western economies since records began in the early 1990’s. 

An estimated $1bn is spent on coaching in the US every year and in 2016 73% of blue chip organisations reported that they were increasing their spending on coaching.

Although a relatively modern phenomenon, coaching has reached the mainstream in organisational life.

Often confined to the C-suite and used sparingly as a performance intervention, there is an air of mystery about what coaching is exactly.

Unsurprisingly, when coaching appears on the learning and development agenda, it can be received with scepticism and distrust. So, perhaps coaching IS a dirty word.

To find out, we surveyed over 700 organisations and asked them what coaching meant to them.