Coaching CPD - Activley Untaps Potential. February 3, 2008
Posted by Bill in : Coaching, Outdoor Learning , 1 comment so far 
This week as part of CPD I attended a Coach course run by Lynn from Nurture HR. I would highly recommend the course. This one of several coaching courses being rolled out by the region. It was great as always to meet other staff from the region and discuss many of the benefits of running coaching programmes as well as trying out the techniques skillfully taught by Lynn. Many corporate organisations have involved the principles of coaching in their HR management to great effect and as this gathers pace in east Lothian I am sure it will contribute. I hope that as this programme rolls out it will help improve the EDR process. Coaching has many benefit. Lynn provided us with plenty of material and further reading. This list below I found at the Coaching and Mentoring Network I particularly like the first bullet point. I also loved the VAK session which I had not used before.
- Actively untaps potential.
- Fine tunes and develops skills.
- Development activities are designed to suit client’s personal needs and learning styles.
- Eliminates specific performance problems.
- Can focus on interpersonal skills, which cannot be readily or effectively transferred in a traditional training environment.
- Provides client with contacts and networks to assist with furthering their career or life aspirations.
- Performed in the ‘live’ environment
- Highly effective when used as a means of supporting training initiatives to ensure that key skills are transferred to the ‘live’ environment.
- Coaches and mentors transfer the skills to the client rather than doing the job for them.
I believe that this is the way forward for EDR sessions as the “paper based” system of running through a review often seen by some managers to be “something they have to do once a year”. By attending sessions such as these managers can see just how rewarding skillful EDR can be. Yes embedding coaching will take more time but the region would reap the benefits in the long run.
A recent post on Don’s blog mentions future training and the use of coaching in threes.
