Unlocking Coaching
Helping you get the most from your coaching conversations
If you have been offered coaching and want to understand what it involves, what your role is, and how to approach it feeling prepared and confident - this programme is designed for you.
This programme is supported by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, using funding from the Department for Work and Pensions' Get Britain Working Economic Inactivity Trailblazer.
DURATION
3 hours approx in total
FORMAT
Online/self-paced/micro-learning
PLACES AVAILABLE
Unlimited
Programme Overview
Coaching is most effective when you feel prepared and ready to engage in it.
Being offered coaching in the workplace is an opportunity, providing a highly personalised and effective form of professional support. Your coach becomes your thinking partners, encouraging your creativity, challenging your assumptions, expanding your perspective, and helping you move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
The Unlocking Coaching Programme is a practical, online programme designed to prepare you to be able to engage in coaching with confidence and intention. If you have been offered coaching, this programme helps ensure you are ready, understanding what coaching is, what to expect, and most importantly, how to engage in ways that makes every session count. It cuts through uncertainty, equips you with a simple, effective model that you can use before, during and after every coaching conversation.
When you are prepared, coaching becomes more than a conversation, it acts as a catalyst. The depth of your engagement can transform the quality of your experience, and the growth you unlock ripples outward, creating measurable impact for you, your team, and the wider organisation.
Who is this programme for?
Employees: those preparing to work with a coach or being coached, based within the York or North Yorkshire region.
This project is supported by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, using funding from the Department for Work and Pensions' Get Britain Working Economic Inactivity Trailblazer.
By the end of this programme, you will be able to:
- Understand the purpose, benefits and boundaries of coaching
- Clearly distinguish coaching from other forms of workplace support
- Engage proactively with your coach, set goals and take ownership of your personal and professional growth
- Understand the role and responsibilities taken by both yourself and your coach
- Build trust and communicate effectively with your coach
- Apply the practical POWER (Plan, Open, Widen, Explore, Review) model to approach each coaching session with confidence.
Commitment required:
- Complete all four learning units, entirely online, including engaging with videos, quizzes, reflective exercises and the programme community site.
- The programme takes approximately 3 hours to complete; you can study at your own pace.
What to expect:
- The Unlocking Coaching programme has four learning units, each one building on the last.
- Each unit has a series of lessons, with short bite-sized videos, interactive quizzes and reflective exercises.
- At the end of each unit, you will post in a dedicated community space, offering the opportunity to interact with others on your programme.
- Each unit will unlock on completion of the last.
- You can study at your own pace. The whole programme should not take longer than three hours to complete.
- On completing the programme, you will receive a certificate of completion, which you can download and/or share with your Coach.
Unit 1
What is coaching and what is its purpose?
- What is coaching and how it differs from other workplace support.
- The benefits of coaching.
- Different forms of coaching in the workplace.
Unit 2
What are the key coaching roles and responsibilities?
- Your role & responsibilities.
- Your coach's role.
- What you can expect from your coach.
Unit 3
How to make the most of each coaching conversation?
- The POWER model (Plan, Open, Widen, Explore, Review)
- Applying the POWER model to your coaching conversations.
Unit 4
What are your next steps?
- Coaching in the workplace.
- Using the POWER model in workplace mentoring conversations.
- Your next steps.
Designed for employees new to coaching
This programme is for those employees who have recently been offered or matched with a coach and want to approach the relationship confidently with a clear sense of what is involved and how to make good use of the opportunity.
No prior experience is needed for this programme. It is designed with those new to coaching in mind. However, it could serve as a useful refresh for those who have had coaching in the past. The POWER model provides an accessible structure to enhance your coaching experience.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some common questions about the programme. If you have a question about the programme that is not answered below, email support@theinnatecoach.co.uk and one of the team will get back to you.
