Coaching
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leaders learn

Coaching is a one-on-one conversation between a coach and their client to improve performance, identify solutions and create a course of action.
Individual coaching
Coaching for Excellence programme
This exclusive six month or one year coaching programme for ACEVO members, delivered by First Position Performance Development, will help you gain new perspectives on familiar problems.
Leadership coaching
Coach Gary Buxton delivers a facilitative one-on-one experience designed to give you time to focus on your own leadership and performance. It offers a unique space to gain insight in the challenges and opportunities faced by leaders.
Resilience coaching
Bird is a team of 10 coaches with experience in the sector and familiar with the issues that those who deliver important work in the not-for-profit world face. If you are navigating a challenging time at work, Bird coaches will help you to create a space to come back to your whole self, and reconnect with you purpose, values and vision.
Executive coaching
Coach Ruth Sutherland offers ACEVO members a 40% reduction in coaching fees. Her approach is curious in supporting clients to explore, play and be creative in discovering and developing your strengths and assets, constantly asking and what else?
Therapeutic coaching
Coach Lucinda Shaw offers ACEVO members an exclusive discounted rate of up to 50%. Her coaching method and style will enable you to access your self-belief, confidence and resilience – things that some of us might forget we have or have never found it within ourselves.
Conflict coaching
Conflict coaching is a powerful tool to help staff to resolve existing issues and prevent further disputes from escalating. Engage Coaching‘s executive coaches support the coachee by blending coaching, mentoring and advising to achieve the best results.
Free coaching with My Coaching Place
ACEVO has partnered with My Coaching Place to provide free coaching for ACEVO members. You can gain access to their platform to be matched with a coach and meet for up to 9 sessions of 60 or 90 minutes each.
New leader coaching programme
A 16-week programme, comprising of six one-hour 1:1 coaching sessions, to help you gain confidence so you can excel in your new senior leadership position and have the impact you want with ease.
Return to work coaching programme
A programme of three, one hour coaching sessions, to ease you back in to the workplace with confidence after a period of leave due to either maternity leave or parental leave.
Coaching and career advice
We’re working with Eastside People to offer a service for charity leaders who haven’t navigated the job market for a while. With expert guidance in key areas, this service will help you position yourself for new opportunities.
Wellbeing coaching
Wellbeing coaching is a supportive, personalised process that helps leaders manage overwhelm and stress by building sustainable habits that intentionally integrate their personal and professional lives to support long term wellbeing.
Working relationships/ VoicePrint coaching
Coach and workplace mediator Samantha Benson will help you build healthier working relationships and repair those that have become difficult. She draws on VoicePrint, a research-based framework that raises awareness of how we talk and listen, and the impact we have on others.
Team coaching
Discounted team coaching
Coach Paul Jefferies offers ACEVO members discounted team coaching for their senior management team or board. Paul’s interests are strategic level business development, change and turn around initiatives, start-ups and continuous improvement to establish growth and develop teams.
Pro-bono team assessment
Nick Myles-Cook and Jonny Friedman from Different Duck are excited to extend an exclusive offer to ACEVO members: a pro-bono team assessment and follow-up coaching workshop. This unique opportunity is designed to empower your senior leadership team, uncovering both areas of high performance and untapped potential for development.
The Working Well Together programme
A flexible programme for people who need to work well together, at the top of an organisation and across it. It might be a CEO and chair building their relationship, a senior team in transition, or two colleagues where tension is starting to affect their work.
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