Biological Sciences

Career Coaching Programme

Career Coaching programme promoting career discussion and progression.

Promoting career coaching in Science

 Find out more about career coaching in STEM in the video below.

Career Coaching

We are delighted to announce that our eight round of career coaching is now complete, with 7 coaching candidates completing the coaching  in person via 1:1 format.

We can also confirm that there wil be a further round of coaching for 2024 with application from 23rd March 2022. More information with be sent to staff via email ahead of the date.

Frequently Asked Question

Q. Who is it for?

A. For all professional service and research staff within the School of Biological Sciences.

 

Q. What is career coaching?

A. Coaching is a process that can help you realise your potential to maximise your performance. It can help you make changes. The coach can help you learn more about yourself and your abilities and help you formulate your own solutions to problems - the coach will not tell you what to do, but will help you think through the options.

Successful candidates will receive five 1 hour coaching sessions paid for by the School.

 

Q. When does the coaching run?

A. We normally open for applications in March with a launch email to all staff. The launch email contains a link to session that was held in 2022, which has presentations from the coaches as well as previous coachees. There was an introduction by the School EDI Administrator and a statement from the Director of Professional Services. The deadline is normally early May, with decisions being relayed in late May. Coaching sessions are then run between June and November. We would also look to ask for feedback from those who have undertaken the coaching.

 

Q. How can coaching help me?

A. Coaching can help you:

  • Achieve your potential
  • Improve or maximise your performance
  • Increase your job satisfaction
  • Understand more about your work role and the issues you need to address
  • Progress in the organisation.

The coaching sessions helped me define what I wanted from my work in terms of role and responsibilities, and I am now working towards achieving these.

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Feedback from previous coaching sessions

Following the five sessions with their coach we ask coachees to complete a short anonymous feedback survey.

When asked, 45% answered that they felt the coaching to be extremely useful18% very useful, 9% useful and 27% quite useful.

All respondents felt their section/the School has benefited from this coaching.

Yes, undoubtedly. Please know this is money well spent.

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