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Citation
(2001), "School of Coaching helps to transform organisations", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 33 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ict.2001.03733eab.002
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
School of Coaching helps to transform organisations
School of Coaching helps to transform organisations
Keywords: Coaching, Human resource development, Professional development
The Industrial Society's School of Coaching is a joint venture between the Industrial Society and Myles Downey and was established in 1997. Downey is a leading business performance coach and was part of the start-up team with the Alexander Corporation, which was acknowledged by The Economist in 1995 as the best executive coaching firm in Europe.
David Webster, Head of the School of Coaching says: "The School of Coaching is not about training people to gain a specific skill. Its whole ethos is to transform organisations' ways of managing and developing people through understanding the role of coaching in transforming the performance of both individuals and teams."
As well as tailored in-company training and consultancy, the school runs courses open to applicants from any sector. The courses last for three months and lead to a Certificate of Professional Development in Coaching, which is accredited by the University of Strathclyde. Most participants on the courses are senior-level executives including chief executive officers.
The School of Coaching claims to be unique because it offers a far more intensive and focused form of training than other coaching courses.
David Webster says: "Our aim is to develop change agents within organisations who are able to deliver a coaching culture to those organisations. The school aims to raise the quality of conversations within organisations. Over the course of the next year, the school will be developing a series of statements which feed into current debates on the quality of UK management, the effectiveness of management training and the ways in which coaching offers part of the solution to organisational strategies to raise productivity, especially in the knowledge industries."
For further information contact the Industrial Society at Robert Hyde House, 48 Bryanston Square, London W1H 2EA. Tel: 020 7479 2111; Fax: 020 7479 2401; Web site: http://www.indsoc.co.uk