AELP Webinar: Workforce and Staff Development - Coaching Conversations for Impact

Overview

How can leaders turn everyday performance conversations into opportunities for reflection, development and real improvement?

This practical 90-minute webinar will explore how purposeful coaching conversations can help leaders and managers develop confident, capable and accountable staff, while improving practice and quality of provision.

You’ll explore:

The difference between coaching, mentoring, supervision and performance management
When and how to use a coaching approach
Effective questioning, listening, feedback and constructive challenge
How to turn conversations into clear actions and measurable improvement
Applying coaching to observations, learning walks, quality assurance and performance reviews
Creating the trust, challenge and accountability needed for effective coaching

Packed with practical techniques and real-world examples, delegates will leave with immediately usable strategies to strengthen staff development, performance and professional ownership.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will help delegates to:

Understand how to use coaching conversations effectively as part of workforce development, distinguishing coaching from mentoring, supervision and performance management and selecting the right approach for different situations.
Develop and apply effective coaching conversation techniques, including purposeful questioning, active listening, evidence-based feedback and constructive challenge, to encourage critical reflection, professional ownership and improved staff practice.
Turn coaching conversations into measurable improvement and impact by agreeing clear actions, expectations, timescales and success measures, and evaluating how staff development contributes to improvements in teaching, training, assessment and learner or apprentice outcomes.
Establishing a team peer-to-peer mentoring programme of development support

Who Should Attend?

The webinar will be particularly valuable for organisations seeking to strengthen the link between staff development, professional practice, quality improvement and learner/apprentice outcomes.

This webinar is designed for all FES and HEI providers (including ITPs, HEIs, employer providers and colleges), apprenticeships, adult learning, Academies and NHS Trusts and 16-19 provision and is suitable for the following roles:

Senior leaders and managers
Heads of quality and quality improvement managers
Curriculum and programme managers
Apprenticeship managers
Teaching and learning managers
HR, people and organisational development leads
Staff development and CPD leads
Team leaders and operational managers
Coaches, mentors and advanced practitioners
Tutors, trainers and assessors with responsibility for supporting colleagues
Aspiring and newly appointed managers developing their leadership skills

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Fees

Member Rate £89.00 + VAT

Non Member Rate £139.00 + VAT

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Phone: 0117 947 2095
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Facilitator

Maureen Deary, FE and Skills and Independent Schools Inspector, Strategic Adviser in Quality

Maureen is a current practising further education and skills inspector and lead inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). She inspects and provides consultancy support across all FE and Skills and HEI provision and a wide range of sector areas sectors. She works with a range of colleges, prime and sub-contractor/partner training provider organisations and is a consultant and adviser in quality development support and improvement work and has supported organisations for over thirty years in the state, private, schools, further and higher education sectors. . She has lived and worked overseas in the education sector and has held representative sports coaching posts to national level. Maureen has worked for a number of awarding bodies approving new centres, developing qualifications, acting as a Chief and Centre Approvals Verifier/Moderator and Principal Examiner and QCF qualification designer, whilst living in the UK and in Hong Kong and Asia.

Guest Speakers

Sue Gomer, Quality Director, Logistica Training & Consultancy

Quality Director at Logistica Training & Consultancy, an experienced senior leader within adult education and apprenticeships. Responsible for Ofsted, Matrix and DFE quality compliance.