An initial Workshop to set up Coaching Pairs

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In order to make a success of Coaching Pairs, it is important to start with an in-person workshop for those members of your extended leadership team who you would like to take part in the first round of Coaching Pairs. 

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The content on this website has been written to provide the key resource materials for the workshop. Please feel free to share a link to the site and use the content in whatever way you want to help frame your own internal conversations about what you want from Coaching Pairs.

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One of the most important aspects of the workshop you will need to think through beforehand is how best to arrange for people to split into Coaching Pairs, in a way that means everyone naturally gravitates towards colleagues from other functions with whom they have few if any dealings on a day-to-day basis.

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Personal support

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If you're thinking of introducing Coaching Pairs, and want to facilitate the workshop yourself, and would like some background coaching support in preparing for it, I would be more than happy to support you with two thirty minute sessions on Teams, at a fee of £400 plus VAT.

 

I find it is most helpful to have one session when you are inviting people to the workshop and creating expectations, then another in the final week before the workshop and engaging with the practicalities of making it a huge success.

 

Alternatively, I always love facilitating workshops and if you want me to act as your facilitator I would be very happy to discuss that option with you.  Naturally, this would involve a more significant fee, but you will at least know that once Coaching Pairs are up and running they will cost you very little, if anything.

 

The moment you think what it would cost for every leader involved in Coaching Pairs to spend one hour every month with an Executive Coach, you know that Coaching Pairs are in a league of their own in terms of creating a self-sustaining culture of continuous improvement and peer support across your wider leadership team.

 

Moreover, you can achieve this without having to pay the many thousands of pounds that a lot of organisations pay for ongoing support from external coaches.​​

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Five key issues for your first Workshop

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1. Exploring the six key elements of working together in Coaching Pairs

2. Inviting members of the team to form a Coaching Pair with a colleague

3. Building in the first session of Coaching Pairs for 30 to 40 minutes as a natural part of the Workshop agenda

4. Facilitating some feedback from Pairs, so that by the end of the Workshop you all regard Coaching Pairs as a core part of your commitment as a team to helping each other grow as leaders.

5. Setting a date for your 6-month Awayday, when everyone knows that they will select a new coaching partner once they have had an opportunity to share key leadership insights they have taken away from the first round of Coaching Pairs.

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If you haven't worked with Pete before,  you can find a selection of some of his latest leadership videos as well as testimonials from other leaders on Pete Ashby Coaching and on his LinkedIn page too.

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