A joint venture with Sir John Whitmore's Performance Consultants International

Image: Arts Council England Cultural Leadership Programme Director Nicola Turner (centre) Deborah Barnard (left), and Carol Wilson after delivering the accredited ‘Coaching Skills for Leadership’ course as part of the Arts Council England Cultural Leadership Programme, in association with Deborah Barnard
“I’ll just come right out and say – ‘it was perfect’. The things that really matter to me have all scored highly. It is rare that one course meets needs/expectations in all areas. - Sue Akroyd (Head of Professional Development, Foundation for Community Dance)
We provide coaching skills training based on Sir John Whitmore's best-selling, time honoured, book entitled “Coaching for Performance” and Carol Wilson’s “Best Practice in Performance Coaching”. These programmes are designed at all levels from integrating coaching skills into your managers' communication styles to training and accrediting your own team of internal coaches, mentors and supervisors.
The Accredited Performance Coach Training course (Diploma Level) is a 5 day programme spread over at least 1 month designed to enable your leaders to get the best from themselves and their teams.
The accreditation criteria, standards and ethics of the training reflect those of the UK's independent coaching body, The Association for Coaching, of which Sir John Whitmore is Honorary Vice President and Carol Wilson is Head of Accreditation.
The style of the training is learning by doing. This is a very practical approach in which participants will have the opportunity to practise coaching specifically about issues currently arising in their workplace and to get feedback from our trainers and each other during the programme.
The Accredited Performance Coach Training course typically consists of the following modules and can be scheduled to suit each organisation’s individual requirements; for example where executives are from different geographical regions, the final part can be completed by conference line.
Whether or not a manager wishes to act as an internal coach, we find that elements 2 and 3 below embed the coaching skills more fully into an executive’s leadership style.
| Module 1: | 2 days of coaching skills training | |||
| Module 2: | 2 days of training in how to deliver a series of formal in house coaching sessions to other managers | |||
| Module 3: | 1 day of assessment after candidates have delivered 12 hours of coaching. Accreditation for candidates awarded a pass |
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| Materials: | A comprehensive Workbook is provided for sustained learning and reference after the programme. |
We are committed to ensuring that the impact of our interventions with your organisation is captured in a way that is meaningful to your business. We will work with you to develop a method that meets your specific requirements and gives you the information that you need throughout the programme.
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All modules will be specifically tailored to examples relevant to your organisation: participants will coach each other on issues currently occurring in their workplace.
We are skilled at integrating our programmes into your existing coaching and leadership models and methods so that your investment in prior learning is not lost.
All our trainers are highly experienced executive performance coaches and are chosen for their rapport skills and ability to create a safe but stimulating learning environment.

Professional speaker, writer and broadcaster Carol Wilson is Head of Accreditation at the Association for Coaching. After a career at board level in the entertainment industry, Carol has trained over 400 executive coaches and was nominated for the AC Awards ‘Influence in Coaching’ and ‘Impact in Coaching’.
“A thoroughly enjoyable/valuable course. You created an atmosphere of openness and trust in which people felt comfortable.” - Janet King, HR Manager (Learning and Development), Human Resource Management
Click here for details of our Certificate and Diploma Accredited Corporate Coach Training Programmes
Click here to see case histories of the organisations we have worked with
Click here for details of our external coaches
Click here to see details of our Transformational Leadership Programmes