Create a coaching culture in your organisation

START FROM WHERE YOU ARE

Every organisation will have a different reason to create a coaching culture. Your organisation may be new to coaching, or quite a long way down the line. It may want a comprehensive programme or a lighter approach.

In each of these cases, an individual plan needs to be developed. Which is how we will work with you.

Our approach is to find out where you are at with coaching, discuss your organisation’s aspirations, and then make a plan together. We will then help you deliver the plan, using a combination of our processes and your in-house capabilities.

PHASE 1:

We look to find out what the organisation is doing with coaching, and what its goals are. We’ll ask for a questionnaire to be filled in, then have a site visit to meet senior leaders and colleagues who play a role in shaping the organisation’s culture.

From this a report will be produced, with recommendations for the short and long term

PHASE 2:

All plans are individual to each organisation, so they differ. Below is a list of the types of activities that typically appear on plans:

• Identifying and agreeing a long-term coaching strategy
• Appointing a champion(s) to manage and maintain momentum
• Define how coaching will be accessed: regularity; coach allocation; ringfencing time
• Identifying and recruiting initial cohort of coaches
• In depth coach training for coaches, possibly attached to a qualification
• Lighter touch coach training for all managers, so they can use coaching skills in their day to day interactions
• Individual development plans, how to get the most of out being coached – whole staff training

PHASE 3:

Some of the above activities require further training, which we are happy to provide. Others can be taken care of in-house. In either case, the plan will outline exactly how it will be implemented, so that everyone is clear, and that the process is seamless

Often great ideas get developed in organisations, with lots of momentum, but the implementation is where it slows down or gets confused. We’ll follow a plan-do-act-check process used in project management.