This collection addresses the specific challenges that coaches working inside organisations face — challenges that external coaches and generic coach training often overlook.
The programme covers six sections:
The Internal Coach Identity — Navigating the dual role of employee and coach, managing the credibility challenge, and building a coaching identity that works within your organisational context.
Power & Dual Relationships — The specific power dynamics internal coaches face: coaching people you work alongside, managing hierarchical relationships, and maintaining boundaries when everyone knows everyone.
Organisational Knowledge — Using your insider knowledge as a strength without letting it become a limitation: when context helps and when it creates assumptions that block genuine exploration.
Building Internal Credibility — Earning trust as a coach when people already know you in another role, managing confidentiality when the organisation wants information, and demonstrating value.
Contracting Internally — The specific contracting challenges: three-way agreements, managing sponsor expectations, and being clear about what coaching is and isn't within the organisation.
Sustainable Internal Practice — Managing the emotional demands of internal coaching, maintaining your own development, and building a coaching practice that's valued and protected.