
Nurturing In-house Coaching Cultures
Coaching is a powerful approach to supporting desired shifts in individuals, teams and cultures, and developing an organisational coaching culture is a highly effective way of building internal capacity that not only supports ‘just in time’ coaching for individuals and teams, but also longer-term development, and is also highly transformative for the coaches as well!
- Following an extensive piece of culture work to support barefoot shoemaker Vivobarefoot on their journey as a B-Corp and regenerative organisation, we identified a cultural model that could act as a coaching framework for in-house coaching, and which maps clearly against external coaching standards such as the EMCC’s. Now with 3 ‘generations’ of coaches having completed training, coaching is embedded alongside other approaches to development and on-boarding in a fast-paced environment.
- Developing coaching culture at Oxfam GB by offering regular supervision and CPD events to globally distributed coaches working cross-culturally, supporting an internal community of practice and learning.
- Developing the first EMCC accredited supervision programme aimed specifically at internal supervisors and organisation development people to be better equipped to support coaching culture in their own organisations, with participation from organisations including B Braun, Ernst and Young, O2, RWE Npower,
- CPD and skills development for inhouse coaches in numerous organisations including Oxford University, Birmingham University, Open University, Oxfordshire County Council, CIPD.