Caroline Skinner

Coaching

Time to Change? Time to Start Living…

With a well-being coach you can work together online or in real time to plan and be supported to make the changes you want to happen in your life.

Feeling that someone is actively listening to you and what you want to be different and achieve is the first step towards that change. Or maybe you are not sure exactly what your goals are and need a listening ear to help you sort out what you need and want next in life?

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Action Learning & Facilitation

Action learning is a process which brings people together to find solutions to problems and, in doing so, develops both the individual & the organisation. Action learning is the facilitation of peer coaching which helps support and develop teams and groups working together to achieve change.

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Caroline Skinner Portrait

About Me

I am passionate about lifelong learning, and how we change and develop across the life span. I use action learning techniques and motivational change philosophy to help teams and individuals develop their confidence, belief in themselves, and to keep well and develop potential at work or at home.

As a coach and a mentor I will facilitate an open learning space to help you consider, plan and achieve the changes that you want in your life. I will work with you whether you wish to change direction in life, change your career or develop a healthier sense of your own well-being.

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From the Blog

Training or facilitation?

Having recently received some very flattering positive feedback and evaluations from some stress management & resilience training recently delivered—I have been reflecting on its success and how this experience was especially rewarding for me too as the facilitator. I use the term “facilitator” rather than “trainer” as I do feel that empowering others to learn and develop work place skills is a key skill in working with adult learners—and experience has taught me that a collaborative, strengths based, motivational approach is often what works best with busy & often experienced teams of people. Casting my mind back I remember someone somewhere on a course telling me that people being “trained” only remember about 30% of what is “taught” on a…

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Action Learning in Social Work / Social Care

Action learning is a method of filtering, exploring and thinking through complex problems in the workplace and it works in diverse fields such as engineering or social work. I have been involved with the SkillsforCare initiative (from 2011/2012) to train social work / social care consultants working with newly qualified social workers completing the Assessed & Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) for six years now. This national project mirrors the DoE’s Newly Qualified Teachers’ scheme whereby new professionals are supported to develop their professional skills in the first year of practice after university qualification. As part of the post degree qualifying programme in social work—most employers require training workshops, mentoring of new staff & and often action learning sets. I…

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