Head of Training, Chaucer plc Q, Please provide a brief career history. I have been Training Manager for an insurance company for 3 years. Prior to that I had been employed as an underwriter for 20 years (although I did play a part in training at an earlier stage of my career). The two disciplines [...]
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Q, Please provide a brief career history. Over 15 years experience working in the IT sector delivering solutions to external clients. Last 8 years were with PwC with roles including project management and Alliance manager for PwC UK. Q, Had you coached before attending the course? Yes. At PwC. PwC had a formal coaching [...]
Head of Learning and Development, Wolverhampton PCT NHS Trust Q, Please provide a brief career history My career background has always involved working in large public sector organisations, such as the Civil Service and the NHS. I have worked in training and development for 16 years in the NHS and am currently Head of Learning [...]
Venue - Newbury Dates towards the end of 2015 to be confirmed Programme Fees £1,350+vat This programme is specifically for graduates of HumanTechnics professional coach training programmes. It recognises prior learning from the workshop time for these programmes enabling a fast-track to NLP Practitioner Certificate (suitable for those who have attended the workshop days but [...]
8th June 2015 HumanTechnics announces its success in winning all 8 lots tendered for with the Thames Valley & Wessex NHD Leadership Academy. The award from the tender process comes after a number of years of successfully delivering accredited coach training to the Academy over the last contract period. HumanTechnics was successful with all 8 [...]
Self-awareness and reflective practice is something I find myself talking about a lot. Whether it’s with leaders who are learning to use a coaching and mentoring approach to support and develop their people, or as with a current project, working with a group of very experienced senior engineers in the oil industry who are developing [...]
Article by Matt Tobutt There’s a rapidly growing library of books on the topic of coaching. Pretty much all of them will provide the author’s own take on the definition of coaching and mentoring and what skills coaches should have. Coaching is still a relatively new professional area and it’s worth reading and noticing some [...]
Coaching as a specialisation has matured significantly over the last few years. Just to clarify I’m talking here about ‘executive coaching’, and I’m using this term to include all organisational coaching, including Leadership coaching, business coaching and performance coaching. Whatever your preferred label, coaching has grown-up significantly. Most coaching in organisations now clearly starts from [...]
A black art? Maybe, certainly pricing coaching services is not straightforward for either provider or buyer. There’s no mystical formula that I can provide but I can share my views and some of the approaches that I think work best. It seams to me that coaching engagements fall into two main categories; coaching as part [...]
HumanTechnics has announced that it has secured the ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management) Level 7 accreditation for its HumanTechnics Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching qualification. The HumanTechnics training is already accredited at Masters level by Bristol Business School. This dual award from these two accreditation bodies is unique to HumanTechnics. The ILM accreditation is [...]