Workplace coaching

Coaching sessions with a qualified workplace coach are only available for Occupational Health referrals

If you would like to self refer, or refer someone that you manage (management referral), then you might be able to have coaching sessions with an unqualified coach, which would be with a colleague currently completing a coaching apprentice.

For further information regarding availability of a workplace coach, email coaching@essex.ac.uk. More information about the different types of referrals can be found below.

Occupational Health referrals can result in a recommendation for coaching. If this is the case, and the employee agrees, a member of Occupational Health will email coaching@essex.ac.uk and request coaching.

If you are a line manager and intend to refer a direct report for coaching, you should email coaching@essex.ac.uk with your request. Before you do this your direct report will need to agree to be coached, and be aware of the objectives for the coaching sessions.

The role of the line manager is very important in the coaching process and the line manager should show their support by discussing the progress of the sessions with their direct reports.

The content of the coaching sessions will remain confidential between the coach and coachee and the coach will not report back directly to the line manager without the agreement of the coachee.

For a self-referral, the coachee will need to email coaching@essex.ac.uk to request coaching. They will then be contacted with details of available coaches and more information about coaching.

Once a date for the first session has been agreed, the coachee will be sent a coaching contract and a form to help prepare them for their first session.