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Coaching Squared

coaching-squared-new-sept-0.jpg Coaching Squared is a pioneering public and private-sector partnership programme designed to boost the confidence and career prospects of women managers through a self-help programme.

The nine month programme was developed for candidates of the same level to meet and select a coaching partner within another organisation to offer guidance and support for the advancement of their careers.

It is an opportunity to exchange views and talk about job pressures in a safe environment without the fear of exposing personal issues within their own company.

The main benefits are to:

  • Raise your career prospects by discussing personal development with someone completely outside of your own organisation
  • Learn about the working environment of another organisation and different business sector
  • Focus on your own development and aspirations and how to achieve them
  • Develop your own coaching skills and set your own agenda
  • Build relationships which will enable you to seek and offer guidance on improved ways of working
  • Develop a broader network which may be beneficial now and in the future

Click on the video below to view past participants and senior sponsors' testimonials:

Launched by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ministry of Justice in 2005, it continues to develop and expand through Scene Change. So far over 200 women have taken part from 22 major organisations including Rolls Royce, Vodafone, Credit Suisse, Aviva, GCHQ, Ministry of Defence, Cabinet Office and Metropolitan Police to name a few.

We are now taking bookings for programme 6 due to launch in October 2008 and we are also about to launch programmes specially aimed at Black, Minority and Ethnic Groups and also Lesbian, Gay men and Bisexuals in October 2008.

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How Coaching Squared works:

Each programme involves candidates from up to six organisations. We aim to balance these between the public and private sectors and each organisation is required to submit up to 12 candidates per programme. Candidates choose to attend one of four workshops where they will learn how to co-coach and decide on the kind of coaching relationship from which they would most benefit.

With guidance and tools learned on the day, they are encouraged to set their own agenda and self manage their coaching relationship. SceneChange will also provide light-touch support throughout the nine month period with regular email and web contact with participants.

It is about encouragement, unleashing talent and fulfilling future potential.

The cost involved in Coaching Squared is modest and the active informal approach has produced benefits that elude passive coaching. Initial success stories have included one civil servant earning Harvard Business School exposure from the pilot programme and a PwC participant was nominated for a business award.

Read the Daily Telegraph interview with founders Mary Shaw, (Ministry of Justice) and Tina Hallett, (PwC)

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