Coaching and mentoring skills workshop

Changing the conversation – culture change through coaching and mentoring

Aims

This workshop aims to enable participants to consider the culture within their area of policing and to develop their coaching and mentoring skills, in order to contribute to culture change.

The workshop will:

• raise your awareness of culture
• encourage you to consider how change and inclusivity can be built from your leadership
• develop your personal leadership style through coaching and mentoring
• develop and practice your coaching and mentoring skills
• enable you to play an active role in the development, progression and retention of officers and staff from groups underrepresented in policing
• give you tools to be an 'upstander' in the wider workplace

What the workshop involves

The workshops include discussions about police culture and your place in it. Through the two days, we will encourage you to consider how you can build an inclusive environment through coaching and mentoring, and how these relationships can be affected by differences or perceived differences. We will include reflections on the lived experiences of officers and staff from groups currently underrepresented in policing.

The workshops are created from the perspective that better communication – particularly listening – will enhance your effectiveness as a leader, enabling you to have better, more effective conversations with anyone.

It involves the following three sections.

• Pre-work, including mandatory learning for the online session (approximately one hour).
• A three-hour online session.
• A two-day, face-to-face workshop. This workshop covers culture diagnosis using Johnson and Scholes’ cultural web model, reflection on self and leadership, the impact of bias on individuals and groups, how to be an active bystander, developing an inclusive culture, and core introductory skills for coaching and mentoring.

These sections are interspersed with periods of reading and video viewing, as well as time in the workplace for your learning to be reflected on and applied. 

You will be supported throughout with access to two highly experienced executive coaches. These coaches will be leading the sessions.

Those who attend the programme commit to working with at least three people from groups underrepresented in policing over a period of 18 months. You will be asked in a follow-up survey whether the skills you've learned on the course have been useful.

Booking information

To book:

• check the course dates for your preferred cohort
• complete the booking form
• return the completed booking form to deliveryadmin@college.police.uk no later than five days before your chosen cohort begins