How to become a coach? Learn how to use coaching techniques effectively, develop your communication skills on our course, and get the EMCC International Certificate.
To develop your business and work effectively in a team, it is important to be able to say exactly what you really want to communicate. Even more so if the team you are leading is international. Describing your expectations succinctly and finding the right words in English to motivate your colleagues is not easy even in your mother tongue.
Sign up for our one-year internationally certified coaching course that teaches you how to use coaching techniques, conduct a coaching conversation, and communicate more effectively with your colleagues.
The training is accredited by EMCC Global, an international organisation of professional mentors and coaches not only in the UK but also in the international community and includes personal coaching, mentoring, group work, and language support.
The coaching course is conducted in English and is designed for coaches, managers, and executives who are already working or want to work in an international environment.
Mike Shreeve served as a school director and an HR manager. His management experience became useful in his current professional training role, where he acts as a coach and a mentor to managers and HR professionals. He has designed the NLP and Coaching Skills, and the Teaching Students with Special Needs and Inclusive Learning courses at the Pilgrims teacher training centre.
He is an active relationship coach as well as a certified instructor at the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. Other than business coaching and mentoring, Mike is also involved in coaching children with learning disabilities.
Some of his most recent projects include a teacher training programme in Ethiopia aimed at improving coaching skills and feedback, together with a programme for our teachers here at The Bridge aimed at using coaching skills in teaching English.
For all our clients we provide services
The coaching techniques have helped me to listen better, not to give advice on hold, but to ask questions. Basically shifting my goal from "find a solution" to "find out what the problem actually is". They taught me to question, question and question. To not jump to conclusions because, well, I don't have time...
Suddenly I had more time, less stress, and the people around me were happier. I found that my head doesn't have to go to 200% when a colleague comes to me with a problem or a question. Many times all I had to do was ask a good question and it found a solution on its own. I discovered a new universe.
Now I see how little I was a good communicator, how much I can still improve and especially how important it is, if you work in an international environment, to educate yourself and acquire new skills in English. You can hardly do a good assessment interview in Slovak when you do it in English at work. You can hardly learn to present in Slovak when you are nervous in English and the overall impression of your speech is completely different.
I would highly recommend Mike as a professional coach. He helped me not only to improve my English coaching vocabulary, but also taught me several extremely helpful coaching methods and tools.
Mike is a great expert and a very kind person - he is enthusiastic, curious, creative, and does it all with a positive attitude. He treats clients like partners, trusts them and encourages their inputs. Mike also provides very useful resources and support which I appreciated greatly.
