Coaching and Mentoring – Developing your talent and potential
- Do you need to resolve a specific problem?
- Indeed, do you need to understand what problem you are trying to solve?
- Would it help you gain clarity about your goals, values, and priorities?
- Do you want Improved Self-Awareness and your effect on others by exploring your beliefs, thoughts, and behaviours?
- Do you want to clarify your thoughts with a person who doesn’t have their own agenda and is working in your best interests?
A Smart Coaching & Training coach can help you decide what to do next . And through coaching, you can create a clear vision of what you want to achieve and develop an action plan to make it happen.
Coaching means never imposing opinions or advice to clients, whereas mentors can offer advice but still not tell the client what to do. We offer general Coaching and Mentoring and targeted coaching in specific topics such as:
- Executive and Leadership Coaching,
- Life Coaching
- Development Coaching
- Business Growth
- Career Progression
- Behavioural Preferences
- Wellbeing at work
- Psychosocial Adult Development
- Team Coaching
- Diversity and Interculturality.
Many of our coaches also use techniques based upon Neuro Linguistic Programming and Emotional Intelligence
For more details see “Specialist Coaching” below. Whatever your organisational, individual, leadership or team needs are, have Smart Coaching & Training be your first call. Starting with a free strategy session we will discuss your needs and create a proposal to suit you.
Why Coaching and Mentoring,
Working individually with you to help you delve into your strengths and weaknesses, visualise desired change and potential, your chosen coach or mentor will guide you through a series of personal conversations to enable growth and enhanced performance. In a safe space you can explore challenges and limiting beliefs and discover ways to break through these to be in a stronger and better place. Whether you need to unlock a talent, develop a new skill, find direction, discover your purpose, have better relationships or just up your game, one-to-one coaching and mentoring can reap benefits beyond your expectations.
“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.” ― John Russell, Managing Director, Harley―Davidson Europe Ltd
The difference between Coaching and Mentoring
For SCT, Coaching is about helping an individual or group resolve specific issues. And can typically take several coaching sessions to refine and resolve that issue. A good coach will never tell you the solution, but rather, by probing and asking questions will lead you to a solution. The coach’s skill is in coaching and does not need to know the topic to be discussed. It’s often better that they don’t so they don’t make assumptions.
A mentor, on the other hand, incorporates coaching skills but also brings knowledge, gives advice and can suggest solutions. A good mentor will not do the work on your behalf (how will you learn) but will point the way.
Coaching sessions can sometimes involve an element of mentoring based on the coach’s knowledge.
A counsellor will typically help a client to go back in history to understand the reasons for various issues. SCT typically does not do this, and our coaches are experienced enough to recognise their limits, and can refer you to experts.
Coaching
Pure coaching is facilitating a process to enable the client to resolve issues. It can be one to one or with groups. Executive coaching can be about business or life. Life coaching can be about life and can include an element of business or work as well as personal issues.
Increasing in popularity to build on individual performance development, group coaching brings the conversations into a wider context that can provide invaluable feedback and new perspectives. You might be looking to grow team understanding and cohesion, or improve collaboration and sharing. Coaching in small groups and teams enables people to have critical and progressive conversations benefiting both the individuals and the group as well as having positive organisational impact.
Mentoring and Counselling
We can mentor on topics where the coach has the knowledge of the subject in addition to the coaching skills. If we are coaching you and feel that our skills and knowledge are not sufficient we will tell you and refer to a counsellor.
Google’s Oxygen project explored why some managers are better and more effective than others and one of the critical skills identified was their ability to coach. Coaching enables a culture of learning, collaboration, employee engagement and a desire to achieve. Successful organisations use coaching skills to improve performance, communication and output. Coaching capability gives individuals a powerful tool to develop their own personal performance and to elicit the best from others. By building an appreciative and developmental view of the organisation, that fits with its people, its customers and stakeholders, it is a key contributor to organisational, individual and team success.
Learning Club
A Learning Club is a group of people with a facilitator. Each person may be learning something different but is accountable to the others for their learning.
Regardless of whether it’s leadership, communication, fitness, language or well-being – one of the things they all agree on is that real change requires a long term commitment with regular focus, feedback and reflection.
Unless follow-up happens, the benefit of a one-off training is 90% forgotten within just a few days, as it gets buried under a pile of incoming distractions.
This is one of the ways that Learning Clubs generate real change, by helping members focus, get feedback and reflect on their key personal development projects.
A Learning Club is a group of people with a facilitator. Each person may be learning something different but is accountable to the others for their learning
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How to chose and contract a coach and coaching
The basic form for coaching is to undertake a series of one-to-one sessions with one of our coaches They can be delivered via Zoom/Teams or Face to Face. The same format applies to groups/teams. The pricing depends on location, whether delivered in person, and the number of attendees. You send an enquiry, make a payment from an invoice and we set it up for you. Call us on +447788425688 for more details or send us an enquiry
Testimonials
What clients say about our coaching
We keep coaching testimonials with the profile pages of the associates who delivered them. In addition you can see selected testimonials on the flyers assigned to individual Long and Short Courses. We have also some testimonials on the case studies pages on ‘Our Clients’ and on the home page. Documenting all the testimonials for all the coaching delivered by all the associates is a very long task and the information is elsewhere. Here are a couple of examples
Catering & Hospitality Business Adviser : “As a professional business advisor I needed help in broadening my skill-set to include aspects of coaching and mentoring. David Rigby helped me to really understand the differences and how to apply the techniques.”
Operations Director – Insurance Business “…I was highly critical of the staff…Isla helped me to understand the reason that this was happening and why. Over the years, a pattern of only hearing negative feedback had developed; therefore this was having an impact on my perception of the workforce and company. Taking a coaching approach…created a more motivated, content workforce.”
Specialist Coaching
As well as general coaching we have developed some specialist areas
These are types of coaching developed for specific clients which we have now made available. click through for more details
Behavioural Preference Profile Review
- This is a review of your Behavioural Preference Profile
- It can be for individuals or groups
- We also can review your Intercultural DISC report.
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Executive and Leadership Coaching
- Executive and Leadership Coaching is our general coaching offering.
- Typically five or six one hour sessions delivered face to face or via Zoom.
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Development Coaching
- Development Coaching draws on different disciplines to review mindset and behaviours and create new ways of being effective, managing challenge and opportunity and creating outcomes and plans for a fulfilled and rewarding personal and professional life.
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Business Growth And Support
- A structured vision of the business growth journey
- Clarity over what resources and options are available to implement your growth strategies
- Implementation of effective measurement and review policies to maintain momentum and keep direction
- Good succession planning
- Having the right leadership to drive the business forward; decision-making, delegating, innovating
- Knowing how to choose and bring the right people with you on your growth journey.
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Career Progression and Development
- Building confidence, resilience and self-worth
- Developing great self-promotion to get you noticed and recognised
- Honing your CV, cover letters and interview skills to fit your target jobs showcasing your strengths and competencies
- Developing great communication and conversation skills
- Discovering your ways of learning, doing and behaving then fine tune them to fit your career goals
- Being strategic and innovative in managing your career path.
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Psychosocial Adult Development Programme
- The stages of Adult Development can assist you align with your best work and life.
- An assessment is the first stage we undertake to position you
- Followed by coaching sessions – to deliver a result for you
- Further coaching can help you develop a plan to move from one stage to another A structured vision of the business growth journey
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Wellbeing at work
- Introduction to Mental Wellbeing
- How to Overcome Fear, Anxiety and Addiction to Thrive in Uncertainty
- Topics include : Prioritize Your Mental Health, Handling Fear, Listening to Inner Voices, Recovering Your Life.
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