Time:
This exercise will take about 25 minutes to complete. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 50 minutes to complete this module.

Aims:
• To enable participants to understand what workplace coaching is.
• To agree a shared definition of workplace coaching.
• To explain the key differences between coaching and mentoring.

Group Size:
This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.

Useful For:
Supervisors and managers.

You'll Need:
Nothing other than the materials provided.

Notes:
Coaching has a long history going right back to Socrates, who believed that individuals learn best when they have ownership of a situation and take some form of personal responsibility for the outcome that is produced.

In more recent times, coaching has played a crucial and effective role in sports, including tennis and football.

However, the potential for coaching as a professional and organisational development approach has only really been recognised in the last decade. Tim Gallwey was perhaps the first to document this movement of coaching from the sporting arena to business, presenting a method of coaching which could be readily applied to almost any situation. His innovative work has been very influential and underpins current approaches to coaching.

Endorsed by The National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers, NASBTT.