• Increase self understanding
• Develop your work-based skills
• Be able to gain highly individualised approaches to challenges
• Improve your effectiveness in a range of areas including
• People skills
• Personal productivity
• Work-life balance and time management
• Confidence
• Career progression/business development
• Dealing with challenging people or situations
• Deal with negative emotions that constrain you

How is coaching structured?
Coaching is structured according to your needs. Your coach will identify with you what you main goals are and develop a programme which will include specific activities to gain insight, techniques and approaches to overcoming challenges and challenging questions to support you. Your coach is there to assist you through helping you to understand what’s working and what is not working and how to enhance your performance. He/she will ask you questions to enable you to work through any limiting thinking you have and provide you with an even wider range of options than you may have considered.

Who will coach me?
We have a number of highly experienced coaches all of whom are qualified. We’ll help you to work with a coach that suits your needs and aspirations.

What if I get a coach?
If you get a coach, you are beginning a fascinating and inspiring journey towards greater effectiveness. Sometimes we can fall into the rut of believing that all we can currently see is all that there is. Coaching helps you move way beyond your current perception of what you could achieve and supports you to find the path to achieve your aspirations. Your coach is your partner for change.

Simon Percival

As a coach, Simon’s first client was a young man who had constantly confounded those around him with his apparent inability to fulfill his ‘obvious potential’. Some challenging questions, honest answers, clear goals and a systematic action plan soon saw this individual achieving all he had set his sights on. Many years after he had coached himself to this series of successes, Simon became a qualified coach, intent on helping others harness their own inner resourcefulness for positive, affirming and exciting results.

Simon now runs a private practice based in the north of England, specialising in professional development and career coaching. As a former teacher in institutions as diverse as secondary schools, sixth forms, English language schools, adult education and prisons, he naturally has a particular interest in learning and those who enable it.

As well as being an accomplished coach, Simon is a popular presenter and facilitator of courses designed to help schools develop more ‘thinking-ful’ and creative lessons that take account of the learning needs of students. His work with the students themselves focuses on their attitudes and skills for learning.

Simon’s publications include Thinking for Learning (co-authored with Mel Rockett) and The Practical Guide to Revision Techniques.