Unlocking potential: strategies for coaching talent

About this event

This engaging session will explore the transformative power of talent coaching and its pivotal role in driving individual and team success.

Join us for an evening of insight, inspiration, and impact!

What you’ll learn:

• Discover the real meaning of talent coaching and why it is essential for organisational success.
• Understand the key distinctions between coaching, mentoring, and training, and learn when to employ each approach most effectively.
• Uncover the vital principles of effective coaching including building trust, setting clear goals, and providing constructive feedback that inspires growth.
• Gain practical strategies for identifying strengths, tailoring coaching methods, and leveraging technology to enhance coaching practices.
• Measure the impact of your coaching efforts with actionable strategies to ensure sustained performance improvement.

Why attend?

Whether you're a leader, coach, or HR professional, this presentation will provide you with the tools and insights needed to foster a culture of continuous improvement and unlock the full potential of talent in your organisation.

About the speakers:

Elaine Greenwood

With over 40 years of dedicated service in local government and extensive experience in management and senior leadership roles, Elaine Greenwood brings a wealth of knowledge and insight to the field of personal development. Having spent 35 years in various management positions and 25 years in senior leadership roles, all within London-based Local Authorities, she has fostered a deep understanding of what it takes to inspire and empower individuals in their professional journeys.

In addition to her governmental experience, she is a certified Executive Coach with 9 years of experience, specializing in helping clients overcome low confidence, procrastination, career challenges, and relationship issues, etc

Elaine encapsulates the invaluable lessons learned throughout her multifaceted career during her coaching programmes. Her Local Council experience covers the sectors of Education and Adult Social Care specifically Mental Health, Client Financial Services and currently Direct Payments provision and understands the operational and strategic challenges that Local Authority employees have to navigate.

Her passion for coaching has fuelled her desire to share practical strategies and transformative insights with others, allowing them to navigate their paths to personal greatness. By combining her extensive leadership experience with her coaching expertise, she offers a unique perspective to those looking to unlock their potential and embrace their authentic selves.

SisDr Sandra Richards

A scholar-practitioner and author with an MA in Education and a Ph.D. for her research in education inclusion.

SisDr brings strong interpersonal and communication skills, and her work reflects values of equality and justice and the application of equitable efforts with emphasis on a cultural lens.

SisDr’s professional background includes quality assurance management, university lecturer, human resource development, performance assessment and evaluation. Her work includes serving as doctoral research Supervisor, Coach, Mentor, culturally sensitive Counsellor and featured speaker at international conferences. Her work has included Special Advisor, Boards Patronage, health institutions, local authorities, prisons, schools, and intergenerational community-based organisations.

SisDr is an accomplished author with over 35 years of working in the human resource development sector. Her experience provides considerable evidence of UK policies and practices that have had a significantly negative impact on particular communities. This includes disproportionate school exclusions, unemployment, immigration, funding failures, prison pipelines, health misdiagnosis and more.

SisDr introduces culturally sensitive concepts and methodologies intended to provide long-term paradigm shifts, develop relevant interventions and form new partnerships/collaborations to empower marginalised communities and disrupt Eurocentric norms.

The title ‘SisDr’ is her public signalling of her commitment to straddle the worlds of the researcher and the researched.

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5. This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
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