Coaching Resources
The following page provides a wealth of coaching resources to support and further develop our coaches in the pool.
Sections included:
| A Coaches Guide | This guide summarises what is required of you as a coach in the West Midlands Coaching Pool, including commitment, processess and where to find information. |
| Contract and Review Form | This form is to be used in all coaching relationships to assess impacts of the coaching received. |
| Preparing for Coaching | This document contains a list of questions that coaches could use to help clients prepare for coaching |
| Three Way Contracting | This guide provides advice for developing a three way contract between a client, line manager and coach. |
| Three Way Contracting - A Managers Guide | Helps managers to understand their role in the three way contracting relationship. |
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This is the Coaching Pool Guide to telephone coaching. |
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| Matching Site Guide | This is a step by step guide for coaches about how to use the Coaching Pool Matching Site. |
| Coaching Pool Code of Ethics | The coaching pool code of ethics is what coaches agree to adhere to. |
| Best Practice Coaching Behaviours | This guide provides and aide memoir to best practice coaching behaviours. |
| Referral List | This document provides a list of appropriate counselling services that clients may need to be referred. |
| Complaints Procedure | The Complaints Procedure is the process that Coaches and Clients must follow when making a complaint. |
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This webpage provides all the promotional material and information about how to access a coach from the pool. |
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This leaflet gives an overview of coaching for potential clients. |
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| Suggested Coach Preparation, Questions and Models | This document provides a summary of the responses from the annual coaching survey 2011 and where possible links to relevant information. |
| WM360 - 360 Degree Feedback | 360 feedback is a valuable way for individuals to assess their strengths and development areas, not only from their own view but from the view point of the colleagues they work with. Further information about the WM360 tool can be found at www.wmcouncils.gov.uk/wm360 |
| How to Paraphrase and Summarise | This is a really useful article about how to effectively use paraphrasing and summarising within your coaching sessions to improve your coaching practice: http://managementhelp.org/blogs/personal-and-professional-coaching/2012/01/26/useful-communications-skills-how-to-paraphrase-and-summarize/ |
| Clients with Excuses | Clients with Excuses: We all come up with excuses about why we don’t or can’t do something. This entertaining article provides some good responses, if you ever have a client with all the excuses!: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/?s=106+Excuses+That+Prevent+You+From+Ever+Becoming+Great |
| My Coaching Style | This is a simple questionnaire that helps raise your awareness of your own coaching style. It could help you recognise the style you currently use and how you could develop your style effectively. |
| Mindtools ToolKit | This is a valuable website providing a wealth of information about leadership and management development. The site includes articles, tools, questionnaires and guides to help broaden your understanding of development techniques, some of which may also be useful to share with your clients. |
| My evolution in Learning | This blog entry provides an insight into how a coach developed their own learning to support them in their coaching practice |
| Intelligence Efficiency | IEWM have produced a guide providing ten top tips to enable local authorities and their partners to work smarter through information and intelligence. The tips look at best practice and the realignment of resources as well as function and activities that can be adopted to operate in a more coordinated and efficient way. Download the guide here. |
Coaching Supervision and Support
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Supervision is an incredibly important element of a coach's development and West Midlands Coaching Pool coaches are able to access at least two free supervision sessions per year. This document displays full information about supervision and support available. Email coachingpool@wmcouncils.gov.uk to check the date of your next supervision session. |
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If you are looking for coaching support in between supervision sessions you can get yourself a 'Coaching Buddy' from the pool. This document details what it means to be a buddy and how you can get one. |
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The West Midlands Coaching Pool now has an extended library of books available for loan to Coaching Pool Coaches. Details of how to arrange a loan are included in the book list available for download. |
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The Coaching Pool Attendance Policy aims to ensure that all participating individuals are aware of their supervision responsibilities. |
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