Imagine if the sustainability or climate team were not the only ones holding leaders to account for change? What if your existing internal coach network could be trained to hold conversations that moved your strategy forwards, or could support your team more appropriately? We can train your internal coaches to do just that. Our International Coach Federation accredited programme equips coaches to hold more systemic conversations, and to understand the complexity of driving organisational change in the context of the climate crisis.

An impact on your strategy

Just as coaches support leaders to implement other organisational strategies, such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, so they can be trained to implement your sustainability strategy. Internal coaches can also have a tangible impact on the effectiveness of the climate education programmes that you employ with your teams. Many organisations are now training leaders with Carbon Literacy, Climate Fresk, technical training and even Masters degrees. These courses are powerful, yet organisations tell us that their is a real risk of educational programmes failing, once leaders return to their jobs and competing priorities. Internal coaches can be buddied with those leaders from the start of those programmes, to ensure that none of this learning is wasted, and that your organisational budget has the greatest impact. For sustainability and climate teams, having coaches that understand the company, have an interest in the environment and truly understand the green transition, can reduce their sense of isolation and help prevent burnout, as well as facilitating team sessions with a better grasp of your context.

What makes this training different

Unlike individual coaching, our programme addresses the big challenges that coaches face when working in the context of climate change. A big component of this is helping coaches themselves to relate differently to this topic, so that they see their role in the ecosystem of organisational change, and are able to manage their own emotional response to the climate crisis, while helping leaders with theirs. Coaches who have been trained to withhold judgement and advice, can find this much harder to do when the topic is so existential and when the change implicates them because it relates to the organisation as a whole, and not just the individual leader or their team. So alongside excellent new techniques and skills, we also train coaches to relate and respond differently to the concept of systems change itself. Internal coaches trained by us are able to conduct neutral but powerful coaching sessions that keep a leader focussed on the sustainability agenda, by helping them to work through reticence and resistance, and set practical action plans.

Our course has been repeatedly accredited by the International Coach Federation for its faithfulness to the ICF's core coaching competencies, while being judged to be quality CPD for coaches. Coaches gain 28 core competencies, of which 21 are Core points. This means that when added to the ICF's mandatory 3-hour ethics training, you coaches have enough points from our course to renew their ICF coach's credential. While many coaching programmes are not measured, we include impact measurement as standard across all of our programmes, assessing coaches at the start and end of every module and across the course as a whole. We present this data to you, along with qualitative feedback from participants at the end of the programme, so that you are able to see the skills improvement, and demonstrate this to budget-holders.