Welcome to starting your coaching/mentoring journey with the Public Sector Coaching and Mentoring Pool!
Working with a coach or mentor can make a profound impact on performance and confidence. Coaching and mentoring are proven to help enhance performance and the speed at which it is achieved.

A coach will help you through raising awareness; looking at different perspectives to enable you to think things through in ways you couldn’t do on your own and a mentor does this through sharing their experience and expertise. It could be an hour of focussed discussion, or over a number of short sessions. If you have something you want to accomplish at work consider working with a coach or mentor to help you get there.

Coaching from the pool involves working 1 to 1 with someone who can help you look at how you need to be in your role as well help you establish what you need to do. Coaching can support if you want to:

• make a change, no matter how big or small
• think through decisions or re-imagine the future
• constructively review and enhance your approach and working style
• improve working relationships
• develop your resilience

If you are looking for someone with relevant skills to help your thinking so you can develop, then coaching could be right for you.

Mentoring from the pool involves working 1 to 1 with someone who has skills or experience you want to develop yourself in, such as gaining;

• practical advice or to deepen your technical knowledge
• understanding of how a service area or organisation works
• knowledge about how to work strategically or politically to get the job done
• a way to develop your networks

If you are looking for some development from someone with credibility and experience to support your professional development, then mentoring maybe right for you.

Accessing trained and accredited coaches and mentors from the range of organisations represented within the West Midlands Pool offers a unique opportunity to focus on specific issues within a professional and confidential setting with someone from an external environment.  It enables reflection, promotes understanding and brings forward fresh insights to reach the desired outcomes.

Who could benefit

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary is committed to nurturing and supporting a healthy, capable and engaged workforce to have the skills and behaviours needed to protect civil nuclear sites and nuclear materials in England and Scotland.

We aim to provide access to high quality and effective coaching and mentoring to all our senior personnel. We are delighted to be part of the Public Sector Coaching and Mentoring Pool, which allows us access to external coaches and mentors from over 35 organisations from across the wider public sector. Both coaching and mentoring are proven to help enhance performance and the speed at which it is achieved, and working with a coach or mentor can make a profound impact on performance and confidence.

To ensure maximum benefits, the target audience for our coaching and mentoring is, but not exclusively, for senior officers, senior leaders and managers who:

• are involved with and leading staff through transformation and change programmes
• are looking to develop their skills in change management, communication style, relationships with colleagues and building staff morale.
• are seeking to work on resilience techniques to help themselves and others thrive not just survive the challenges and opportunities facing them
• have taken on new responsibilities or a different job
• are adapting to the change and seeking to optimise these opportunities
• are new to the organisation
• are returning from a period of long-term leave (i.e. sickness, maternity, career break)