• Turn Everyday Conversations into High-Impact Coaching Moments

    Free interactive webinar: 2 June 12:00 GMT+1

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    Discover the power of the Five-Minute Coach

    In today’s fast-paced workplace, managers don’t have hours to coach — but the need to engage, develop, and empower teams has never been greater.


    This free interactive webinar introduces a practical coaching approach that fits seamlessly into the flow of work. You’ll experience how just a few well-chosen questions can shift thinking, unlock solutions, and drive meaningful action — in minutes.


    In this 40-minute session, you'll:

    • Experience the impact of five-minute coaching first-hand
    • Learn simple, powerful questions that transform conversations
    • Discover benefits of embedding coaching into everyday management moments
    • Explore how this approach supports leaders, teams and organisational performance

    With the Five-Minute Coach, you:

    • Empower your team without adding to your workload
    • Make meetings more focused and productive
    • Improve communication and accountability
    • Drive better outcomes — faster

    Join us to see how you can make a real difference in just 5 minutes!

    2nd June 12:00 BST (GMT+1)

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  • What we do

    We train leaders, managers, coaches, facilitators, teams and individuals in the various skills of the Five-Minute Coach, and coach people also using the Five-Minute Coach approach.

    Our online programmes combine self-guided learning with in-person sessions. All are focused on developing practical skills, fast. Programmes include:

    The Five-Minute Coach

    The Five-Minute Coach

    For coaching, running effective meetings, managing people and projects, motivating team members and more.
    Facilitating with the Five-Minute Coach

    Facilitating with the Five-Minute Coach

    Offering new techniques to build engagement, have greater impact and create sustainable change, plus tools to pass on to participants.

    coaching skills at work

    Five-Minute Coach Skills at Work

    Building the skills of listening, fast and effective problem solving, engaging and encouraging others, having better conversations and generating new thinking.

  • Who's it for?

    Leaders & managers

    Leaders who embrace the Five-Minute Coach no longer fight fires constantly. They get much better results as their team members take ownership of issues. They become more proactive and less reactive. They create opportunities to get a strategic perspective and make a real difference. Performance - and job satisfaction - improves for all.

    Facilitators, trainers, team and group coaches

    The Five-Minute Coach supercharges facilitators' capacity to increase engagement, motivation and commitment, to enhance communication and collaboration, to embed learning and create sustainable change.

    Coaches

    Coaches find the Five-Minute Coach approach revolutionises their work. The process facilitates people to deepen their thinking, move beyond their current narrative and overcome procrastination to achieve their goals with more ease.

    Other professionals

    Educators, lawyers, health professionals, ICT specialists, project managers and many others have all found valuable ways of improving their effectiveness with the Five-Minute Coach.

    Individuals

    Anyone who wishes to improve their listening skills, communicate more effectively and support others, or themselves. Individuals of any age, background or ethnicicty, who may be parents, voluntary workers, community members, or those looking to find their path.

  • Blog

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  • The Five-Minute Coach - improve performance reapidly

    Find out more - read the book!

    A simple, step by step guide to coaching quickly and effortlessly to achieve amazingly better results at work. Short, punchy and easy to read, you'll swiftly learn about this innovative and effective tool for improving performance, and have some tools to experiment with straight away.

     

    Available in paperback or e-book versions.

     

    ‘This book has the potential to become a “must read” for leaders at all levels, across all sectors.’ – Douglas Waddell, Operations Director Hand Picked Hotels 

  • What people say

     

    The essence of coaching

    Listening on a deep level is the essence of coaching and it is very easy to think you know what you've heard or give it meaning that isn't intended by the client. This process helps with getting real clarity for the client about what their issue is and depth of thinking in the exploration of it.

    Liz McCann, Head of Executive, Leadership and Management Coaching, BBC

    It’s gone down a storm!

    We run a two-day senior manager benchmarking and development planning event that is innovative in its design. For co-coaching sessions we set them up with a framework based on the Five-Minute Coach model and they can very quickly start to use it. It’s useful because we’re trying to encourage coaching and co-coaching generally, and giving them a different model that they can use quickly and easily makes a lot of sense. We’ve now used it with more than 250 senior managers. It’s gone down a storm!

    Lorenza Clifford, L&D consultant, PwC

    Highly recommended

    The Five-Minute Coach has enabled me to help a lot of people help themselves in my organisation this year. As well as being a very practical framework for really effective one to one conversations, it has instilled an approach that can be usefully and respectfully applied in many day to day situations. It unlocks personal power and keeps responsibility for change in the hands of those that seek it. Highly recommended.

    Tony Piper, Inviqa

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