Coaching champions seeking coachees for free coaching

As part of the EN:Lighten programme, a key step in Efficiency North’s organisational journey and Good to Great 3-year business strategy to enable the best performance environment to build strength and capacity for future growth, two of the team are training to become coaching champions.

HR Manager Natalie Irving and Apprenticeship Manager Sophie Richardson began training at the end of June for the Association of Coaching’s Accredited Diploma in Coach Training to become AC Accredited Executive Foundation Coaches, through Ambito’s Coaching Mastery training programme.

The 11-month training will enable them to learn skills such as active listening and self-reflection, alongside a range of coaching methods, to become effective coaches. They will also be putting their skills into practice with 50 hours of real-life coaching practice, alongside 50 hours CPD.

HR Manager Natalie Irving said: “I am really grateful for the opportunity to undertake coaching training. So many colleagues have told me about the benefit coaching has made to their professional careers: so, to be in a place to learn about how to facilitate that is wonderful! I am starting my learning from scratch – which is daunting – but hopefully, by the end of this, I will be in a position to support people within our workplace either as coach or by helping them learn and exercise coaching techniques themselves.

“I am really looking forward to working with Sophie to help support ENHL in its coaching journey: it will be exciting to see the results of this over the next few years as the organisation grows!”

Apprenticeship Manager Sophie Richardson said: “My intention for taking this training opportunity was to be able to progress as a person both personally and professionally, to learn about the ways of coaching and how this can be used both in everyday life and within the workplace to enable me to support others in all areas of life.

“During the next 11 months I am looking forward to working with a number of coachees to allow them to work through any potential issues and help them reach their goals through the power of coaching. On a professional level, in my role as Apprenticeship Manager, I am looking forward to putting these skills into practice to allow me to support apprentices throughout their apprenticeship journey.

“I am extremely grateful to be given the opportunity to take part in the Coaching Mastery Programme and look forward to being able to able to put this into practice.”