We warmly extend our congratulations to the the BBC Coaching Programme and West Midlands Coaching Pool, the winner and runner-up respectively of the World of Learning Coaching Award 2008. Bath Consultancy Group works with both organisations.

About the BBC Coaching Programme

Liz Macann, head of executive coaching at the BBC, leads the BBC Coaching Programme. She decided in the early part of this decade to extend coaching beyond the boardroom and developed an internal coaching capability (People Management interview with Liz Macann, 3^rd May 2007).  Bath Consultancy Group has worked with the BBC providing coaching supervision for internal coaches and also delivers executive coaching.

Peter Hawkins of Bath Consultancy Group says: "Liz is a driving force in the coaching world. She has developed a first class internal coaching capability and a roster of external coaches, all supported by Coaching Supervision. She is on the board of the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision. She and her team are worthy winners of the World of Learning Awards. Congratulations to them all."

About the West Midlands Coaching Pool

12 West Midlands local authorities and the West Midlands Local Government Association have been working in partnership developing a Regional Coaching Pool to train managers in delivering high quality coaching across the authorities, free of charge.

Part One of the programme was to train 150 local government managers as coaches using ILM level-7 accreditation delivered by the Office for Public Management (OPM) with Bath Consultancy Group and OPM providing the coaching supervision. The Coaching Pool will enable the authorities to save money by training and deploying their own coaches, as opposed to buying in coaches. The Coaching Pool will provide a minimum of 4140 coaching hours across the 12 local authorities per year, once at full capacity.

The coaching pool will allow managers to work on a one to one basis with staff in their teams and across the pool on performance issues such as identifying goals, reviewing options, solving problems and planning actions.

Gil Schwenk says: "This is a great achievement for the West Midlands Coaching Pool. They recognised that coaching is a valuable tool to improve performance and by training their managers as coaches have achieved just that. Well done to everyone involved."

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