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Participants on the one day Alite Coaching for Performance course will benefit from:

  • Developing a full appreciation of the principles of coaching
  • A deeper understanding of the impact of core beliefs on performance
  • Gaining a deeper insight into listening skills
  • Discovering when to question and when to be silent
  • Practising and honing a range of practical coaching skills for use in school
  • Finding out how to identify what drives success forward and what holds it back
  • Accessing some of the best and most effective personal transformation tools

 

Outline of the course content forthe one day Coaching for Performance course:

  • A definition and the boundaries of coaching
  • The difference between coaching and other helping processes
  • The essential dispositions of an effective coach
  • Achieving the coach mind-set
  • The essentials of excellent rapport
  • Listening - for what's being said... and what's not being said
  • How to ask the right questions and what to do when someone gets stuck
  • When to speak and when to stay silent
  • When to break your client's 'state' and how to achieve this
  • The six part coaching excellence process to empower change
  • How to use the 'professional focus tool'

 

Outline of the course content for the two day Advanced Coaching for Performance course:

  • Advanced techniques for challenging limiting beliefs and negative emotions
  • Managing coaching sessions in schools and colleges
  • Coaching in a hurry and how to do it
  • Advanced questioning skills for coaches
  • Advanced language patterns for managing challenging people
  • Light hypnosis work in mentoring and coaching
  • Working with values and beliefs to unlock motivation
  • Anchoring resource techniques
  • Applications of coaching and whole institution models for coaching

 

"Surpassed my expectaions.  Day 1 was good but this was so good I'd do it again if I could.  Thank you"

Louise Smith, Secondary Strategy Teaching and Learning Consultant, West Sussex LEA

 

 

Coaching for Performance

 

Coaching for performanceInspirational coaching skills courses with Will Thomas, author of Coaching Solutions

 

‘Getting stuck is not a problem, staying stuck is…’

 

The Alite Coaching for Performance Programme has been designed by Will Thomas to add real value to teachers, learning mentors and educational leaders who want to get the best performances from students and colleagues.

 

The Alite Coaching for Performance Programme is closely focused on promoting independent thinking and empowered problem-solving in others.  The courses which make up the programme are packed full of relevant coaching theory and provide participants with a range of tried and tested performance-enhancing techniques.  The programme offers you the opportunity to understand the psychology of performance and develop the practical skills of coaching excellence.

 

Drawing on a rich heritage of NLP, Sports Performance Psychotherapy, The Alite Coaching for Performance Programme provides delegates with simple models and techniques that can improve motivation and broker success.  This is an exciting programme that leaves delegates motivated and inspired to use their new skills as soon as they return to work.

 

"The whole experience was excellent - content, delivery, relevance and value"

Alison Mitchell, Roshall Academy, Glasgow

 

What is Coaching?

Coaching for PerformanceCoaching is a skill set which is increasingly being used alongside mentoring, tutoring and guidance, to broker change in adults and young people. Many schools and colleges are noticing the difference made through encouraging more independent and reflective thinking with coaching techniques. The skills are essential to fostering the right attitudes for groups and individuals to achieve goals and overcome limitations. Coaching techniques help identify and change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour. Coaching is powerful because it allows people to access their inner motivational triggers, in a way that mentoring may not. It works with both the conscious and the unconscious processes of the mind to access high levels of motivation. It provides approaches for working with a range of people including those whose behaviour challenges us.

 
What will the course be like?

A wide variety of learning approaches makes this programme a stimulating, thought-provoking and practical experience. The training is an experiential approach to the skills of supporting others to develop in schools. The session will explore the boundaries of coaching and mentoring, enhance your understanding of motivation and equip you with the skills that will enable you to get the very best out of teams and individuals within a school. Delegates will work on their own professional performance throughout the programme and support others to do the same.

 

To purchase Coaching Solutions by Alistair Smith and Will Thomas, click here

To purchase Coaching Solutions Resource Book by Will Thomas, click here

 

The Programme

We offer two key courses to develop the essential skills of coaching and to enable the blending of these skills with other more commonly used approaches:

 

The one day Coaching for Performance course

 

The two day Advanced Coaching for Performance course

 

Participants attending the two day advanced course should have attended the one day course.  The courses may be run concurrently as a three day block, or day one can be completed and attendance on days two and three can take place at a later date.

 

The programmes are also available as whole school training packages and can be tailored to your institution's needs.

Find out more about Will Thomas

 

"How to obtain decisions from someone and the commitments to those decisions was a revelation. Small numbers made it easy to contribute"

Roger Baines, Behaviour Support Service

 

"Very enjoyable – new ideas that I can use to be more effective in my job – well delivered"

Guy Foster, East Manchester Education Action Zone

 

"The course stimulated new ideas and the motivation to put them into practice"

Phil Jones, TLMS

 

"The best thing about the course was trying out real coaching sessions with other participants"

F. Soul, Bracknell Forest LEA

 

"Very clear presentation. Passionate course leader who knew his subject. Interesting, fast paced and interactive."

Andrew Parkin, Assistant Head, Sian Manning RC Girls' School