At Drummond Phillips we practise coaching and mentoring which is a contemporary and rapidly growing method for helping others to fulfil a range of needs supporting them to become better ‘reflective practitioners’, and be able to fully participate in making improvements in for example:
· developing new teaching, learning and management skills,
· finding personal and professional fulfilment and success in the school, academies or college settings
· achieving ambitions and managing better a ‘work-life balance’
Understanding how change affects us and impacts on our life is crucial in finding ways to deal with it. Adjusting to new situations can be very daunting even for the most composed and strong in self-control. DP can help you or members of your organisation such as teachers, middle leaders and learning assistants become more effective in coping with challenging situations, whether in the personal life, career, school or social events. Understanding change management is an important set of behaviour skills which can be acquired, practiced and honed.
Our approach to coaching ‘brings out’ rather than ‘puts in’. It develops rather than imposes. It allows for reflection rather than over-directing. Effective coaching is a form of change management in itself - it enables people to see what is possible as well as giving them a new set of coping skills. Our approach at DP is that coaching is reactive and flexible - it allows for personal transition on an individual basis. In our coaching methods we make no assumptions - it's not judgemental, nor is it prescriptive or instructional.
A key to our success in helping others is through developing empathy, and teaching listening and communication skills which are all central ingredients to the coaching process. Good personal or team coaching seeks to help the other person's understanding of him or herself. The personal belief, judgments and preferences and needs of the coach are immaterial - good coaching is about helping people to understand themselves, where they want to be - and helping them to get there.
