Life is like a jigsaw puzzle.
You can see all the pieces, but you don’t yet know how they fit together.
There’s no guide to follow. You can’t see the lid of the box. All you can do is try to build by association; create your own connections in the hope that you develop a strong foundation on which to experience, learn, and grow.
The Coaching Practice takes the guesswork out of finding the right building blocks for success. Specialising in sales and leadership management - but offering a wealth of more comprehensive training and coaching solutions, too - we create flexible, scalable programmes that are heavily based on the virtues of blended and experiential learning models.
In a nutshell, we help you find your feet, connect the dots, then build your jigsaw your way, to achieve the goals you want to achieve.
“The only way we could remember would be by constant rereading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.”
From Thinking as a Science, by Henry Hazlitt
What to Expect from our Learning Pathway
Incorporating new learning into your work is one way to retain knowledge. Another is
spaced repetition. Originally proposed by psychologist Cecil Alec Mace in 1932, it refers to spreading learning out over time (material should be reviewed in gradually increasing intervals of roughly one day, two days, four days, eight days, and so on). This approach takes advantage of the psychological spacing effect, which demonstrates a strong link between the periodic exposure to information and retention. Studies show that by using spaced repetition, we can remember about 80% of what we learn after 60 days — a significant improvement.
With that in mind, our learning pathway is illustrated below.
Practicum: Is a platform for revisiting previously studied material in a work context.
Delegates explore further how to apply models/concepts and tools into their daily workflow. In addition, a crucial part of the learning experience is sharing success through peer to peer learning.
121 Coaching: The final stage of the learning transitions from group to individual learning. The Coachee determines the goal of the session. The materials and subject matter previously covered are used as a reference point as appropriate.
Meet Don
Don Moore is an international coach and facilitator with decades of experience in the sales and leadership training space.
On leaving the army, Don embarked on a career as a salesman for Grand Metropolitan. From there, his passion for people development helped him to achieve a number of senior management positions, including a regional Directorship for a FTSE 250 company. To underline his business credentials, Don completed an MBA (dip) in Organisational Leadership at Brighton University in 2001.
Don has supported individuals and businesses as a freelance consultant for nine years, working on assignments in a variety of locations from Hong Kong, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Europe and North America. Don often delivers motivational speeches as part of his skills portfolio.
Don says:
“Every day, I wake up excited and energised by what the day will bring. My purpose is to inspire great leadership in all those I work with. I find the subject of leadership endlessly engaging, endlessly fulfilling. One of the key lessons I have learnt is that when you are prepared, fully, to serve others first, to help the person on your left and right before thinking of oneself you will be a leader.”
Why the Octopus?
The Octopus is symbolic of The Coaching Practice’s ethos.
As a creature, the octopus is remarkably agile and highly adept at adapting to fast-changing circumstances to protect it from predators.
It is considered by marine biologists to be the most intelligent of aquatic creatures. In fact, octopuses are capable of high order cognitive behaviours, including tool use and problem-solving. They are endlessly curious, having been observed playing with Lego bricks and unscrewing lids of jars to access food.
And, of course, our Octopus is a nod to our environmental credentials.