Advanced Skills in Career Coaching for Educators and Trainers (FD30SEP26)

There is no pre-attendance work. Prior to attending participants are requested to reflect upon:

Instances where they have used career conversations and coaching since their original workshop.

Aspects they used that worked well.

Situations they have found challenging in holding career conversations.

If they have not had any career conversations, what other opportunities they think exist in their work where they could still practice coaching skills.

Booking courses

Please ensure that you check your availability before booking a place and add the booking to your diary / calendar. Please ensure that you also book the relevant study leave in advance with your employer.

Please refrain from booking multiple instances of the same course or course type to ensure that places are available to your colleagues. If a course is full, please add yourself to the waiting list and you will receive a notification if a place becomes available.

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is only available to Educational Supervisors, Education Leads, Training Programme Directors and Senior Faculty within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

This workshop provides attendees with a range of skills to help them support others to make high quality and informed decisions about their career options and direction.

• To further develop confidence in career conversations by providing an opportunity for reflection on the uses and remaining challenges experienced in managing career conversations.
• To create an open and supportive environment to share experience and to offer support to those experiencing challenges.
• To provide an opportunity to practice coaching skills underpinning career conversations.
• To receive the most up to date version of the Confident Career Conversations Resource Pack containing a range of practical tools.

By the end of this 90-minute session, participants will be able to:

• Recognise the real barriers that continue to influence their career-coaching practice and identify what gets in the way of confident conversations.
• Apply core coaching skills through live one-to-one practice, taking the role of both coach and coachee.
• Draw on peer experience to expand their range of approaches when supporting others with career decisions.
• Reflect on recent coaching attempts, spotting what worked well and where they want to grow next.
• Use new tools from the updated Confident Career Conversations Resource Pack to strengthen future conversations.
• Build ongoing peer support, knowing how to connect with colleagues for continued learning after the workshop.