Coaching Training
If you are an organisation interested in coaching, we can help you develop internal coach networks, facilitate ILM accredited coaching programmes and support your leaders and managers to adopt a coaching approach.
If you are an individual interested in coaching development, we can help you develop your skills through a range of open programmes and one to one support.
If you are a practising coach, we offer group and one to one supervision to help you reflect and enhance your practice, in a supportive encouraging environment.
We have trained well over 1000 people in coaching skills across a wide range of training courses. We won a National Training Award in 2015 for our coaching programmes and services, and in 2023 were shortlisted for an Irish National Training Award for Best Collaboration for our work with Queen’s University, helping them expand their internal coaching service and grow and embed a coaching culture.
ILM Accredited Courses
NEW PROGRAMME STARTING JANUARY 2025
Level 5 Certificate in Coaching
This course is ideal for people with significant responsibility for coaching and mentoring as part of their work role, or for individuals who wish to move into a development role or start a career in coaching with a professional qualification. It offers a nationally recognised and highly reputable coaching qualification.
We pride ourselves on the quality of this course.
100% of participants on our last programme said they would recommend it to others.
And that’s because we offer more guidance, more support and more supervision than other providers, all facilitated by qualified, accredited and experienced Executive Coaches.
Coaching Skills for Managers
Leaders and managers who adopt a coaching style of management are able to communicate much more effectively, lead their teams through change and transition, and encourage staff to take ownership and really engage with their work.
Coaching is a critical skill for managers, especially in our new hybrid working world. Coaching can transform the team’s performance, and lower the stress levels of all the team, manager included.
We believe that off the shelf one day coaching courses don’t work, and don’t deliver what you need. So, we offer bespoke flexible solutions, tailored to your situation, culture, budget and needs. That includes both short introductory courses, and longer more intensive courses for managers and leaders, either face to face or online. All designed to have immediate benefit and impact, with lots of opportunity for interaction and practice.
Coaching and Mentoring Supervision
Our coaching supervision provides a safe, supportive space to reflect, re-energise and review your coaching practice.
Supervision has been at the heart of our own coaching development, helping us to build our own coaching skills, understand ourselves as coaches and develop our own individual practice, and supported us in complex and more challenging situations.
We’ve always included supervision in all our programmes and in 2023 Marie trained with Barefoot Coaching as a Coach Supervisor to enhance her own practice as a supervisor.
We offer 1-1 supervision and group supervision for both internal coaches and mentors. Yes, mentors benefit from supervision too!
Why Us?
Our experience
We‘re highly experienced, both as accredited executive coaches, and in delivering coaching training.
We know what it is like to introduce and try to build a coaching culture in an organisation. We have been there, so we completely understand the challenges, and we won an Irish National Training Award for Coaching based on the work we did, and the impact it had, in our last organisation.
We’ve published research and a best practice case study on coaching in organisations, and Marie completed her MSc focusing on the impact of the leader as coach.
Marie was an External Quality Advisor with ILM, advising and auditing organisations on their coaching programmes, so is an expert with ILM coaching programmes. She’s just recently completed a Barefoot Coach training course in Supervision.
Our training approach
Our ambition is to raise the quality of coaching training. When you complete any of our training programmes, we want you to be confident and capable in your skills, ready to make an impact with your coaching. So, in all our courses we build in more practice and more supervision time.
We pioneered delivering coaching skills training online, starting in 2010. We designed, and taught on for over 10 years, a fully online masters level coaching module for staff working in the Health Sector. We deliver online and blended training that is just as engaged, interactive and impactful as in person.
And all our coaching courses are bespoke to your needs, tailored to your organisational culture and goals. Having worked in large organisations ourselves and bought in training, we know the difference in impact between an off the shelf theoretical course, and a practical tailored programme.
Our results speak for themselves
In every evaluation of our ILM Level accredited programmes, 100% of the participants said that they would recommend the course. All of the participants commented on the level of support they received, both through supervision and tutorial support.
In our last evaluation of the Coaching for Leaders course, every participant scored it 5 out of 5 for the quality and impact of the course, saying that it was an opportunity for a reset in their approch, and commenting on the quality of the training and the tools and techniques they were learning and applyign with their team.
We’re passionate about coaching, and committed to delivering coaching training programmes that really deliver, both for individual participants and the teams and organisations that they are part of.
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