Face-to-face coaching and telephone coaching are effective ways of turning performance management into a collaborative approach that benefits all.
When people pull together, leading and managing organisations, teams, classrooms, services and settings is enormously rewarding, ideas are alive, energy levels are positive and morale is high. Without this support, the job can quickly become overwhelming, particularly when team moral is low - even the most qualified and experienced leaders may find it tough to get things moving in some situations: Perhaps some key staff have left, absence is high, or people are simply not doing what they are supposed to do!

Whatever the circumstances, coaching can provide the support you need.

Coaching helps individuals and teams to work through transitions and overcome barriers to achieving their goals. This process can also support career progression and help to develop greater confidence and increase personal effectiveness in achieving the results that are uniquely right for the individual and for the organisation or setting.

It is a way of providing organisations, groups, teams and individuals with support that is committed to their development and success.

This is what some of our clients say:

“If the money was there - I would make it compulsory for all of the management team to receive coaching sessions regularly - and they then coach their teams, etc: impacting children, parents, team and themselves!”

Since we have received coaching, the impact on the whole team has been massive. Both the Childcare Director and Managers have then been able to coach some of the team at each of the sites. The process has helped transform the senior management team's communication with each other, and in some ways taken out the fear factor - which was skewed due to our own stuff!” Melanie Ferguson Operations Director Zoom Nurseries, London

"Coaching really helped me open my eyes and see the bigger picture; it helped me understand some of my own skills and areas for development. It helped me question my own practice. Through this process I have then been able to reach out and support my team in a constructive and beneficial way" Kerry Lambourne Zoom - Eltham, Manager

Big Thanks from Teach First - Rachel Faulkner, Senior Leadership Development Officer, London

I wanted to send you one last email to thank you for your involvement in the coaching programme this year. It has been a pleasure working with you and I hope you have enjoyed your time supporting our teachers as they sought to maximise their impact within the classroom and begin to carve out their future plans.

The coaching programme is such a valuable mechanism for our teachers’ development and the feedback we have received this year has been overwhelmingly encouraging. Here’s just what some of our participants have had to say about you:

"My coach has made such a significant difference to my year! She's helped me identify the challenges I wanted to set myself and allowed me to find a way to achieving them. As a result, I've implemented my school project with funding and secured a job in advertising for next year. She has helped me find the confidence to network and seek out answers to questions I didn't know how to ask. I'd recommend a coach to every Teach Firster.

"She has helped me immeasurably by being there as someone to listen to me who is not a family member or long-term friend. She has been able to give me really helpful guidance on lots of aspects of my journey this year. She has also been able to put me in touch with other people who have been

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