As an employee of Sydney Local Health District you have access to the Sydney Education Coaching Service.
 

We aim to support you to be your best self while at work, and to grow and develop in your role.

We believe when you engage in coaching, there are benefits for you, your team, your clients, your personal life and the broader community in which we live and work. Coaching supports you and your team to find your own solutions and way forward.
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Why engage in coaching?

There are a lot of reasons why coaching is a great activity to engage in. Coaching focuses on you, your unique strengths, your desires and clarifies your specific goals. It is flexible and goes where it best needs to go for you and your individual circumstances.

Coaching will help to maximise your well-being, productivity and functioning at work.

Some of the reasons people come to coaching include:

• To strengthen communication and interpersonal skills
• For leadership development
• To enhance relationships at work
• For performance growth
• To foster wellbeing and work-life balance
• For self-regulation of emotions through reflection
• To improve confidence in roles
• To grow creativity and innovation
• For career development and planning

We look forward to welcoming you to the Sydney Education Coaching Service.

Types of Coaching

Individual Coaching

Individual coaching is accessible to all staff, regardless of role. All individual coaching aims to support you with work performance and growth, skills and career planning, leadership development, inter-personal skills and self-reflection. 

This may include values and goal clarification, brainstorming, identifying options and solutions, plans of action, and exploring the work-life balance. 

As part of the coaching service, we will offer you the option of self-awareness and feedback tools. 

Coaching for Managers

If you are a manager, we can offer you coaching related to the Management Accountability Framework (MAF). Research has shown that coaching is key to managerial effectiveness and staff engagement. Our aim is to support you in your role as a manager to develop yourself and enhance positive team culture and performance. 

This may include values and goal clarification, brainstorming, identifying options and solutions, plans of action, and exploring the connectedness between work and personal life. 

As part of the coaching service, we will offer you the option of self-awareness and feedback tools. 

Team Coaching

Coaching can support team development and cohesiveness through working on a common goal/s that the team wishes to achieve, and can focus on development of high performing teams, values, vision, roles and responsibilities, defining behaviours and team strengths. This could involve the use of team-based tools used to help focus team members. The coaching team will be able to discuss the range of options available to you and your team. 

Self-Awareness Tools

As part of the Coaching Service, consideration of self-awareness and feedback tools is encouraged as part of the coaching process. This may include 360-degree feedback, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Clifton Strengths and possibly others. 

Completing one of these tools can increase your understanding of self, your strengths, and how these can be used to enhance interpersonal relationships and performance at work. 

360 Degree Feedback Tools

360 Degree Feedback is a process where you receive confidential and anonymous feedback from people who work with you. This typically includes feedback from your manager, your peers, and your team. 
We have two specialised 360 Degree Feedback Tools that are based on the Management Accountability Framework and the Staff Accountability Framework. 

Please contact us at SLHD-CoachingService@health.nsw.gov.au for more information.

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