Coaching And Mentoring

Develop coaching skills to support the progression of underrepresented police officers and staff.

Aims

This workshop aims to enable participants to develop their coaching and mentoring skills to support inclusion and contribute to culture change within policing.

The workshop will:

• raise your personal awareness of how culture and inclusivity can be built from your leadership

• develop your coaching and mentoring skills

• enable you to play an active role in the development, progression and retention of officers and staff from groups underrepresented in policing

• give you tools to be an active bystander or 'upstander'

What the workshop involves

The workshop includes discussions about building an inclusive environment and how mentoring relationships can be impacted by differences or perceived differences. It also includes reflections on the lived experiences of officers and staff from groups currently underrepresented in policing.

The workshop will enhance your effectiveness as a leader, enabling you to have better conversations with anyone.

It involves three sections. These are:

• pre-work – including mandatory learning for the online session (approximately one hour)

• one, three-hour online session

• a two-day, face-to-face workshop – covering the impact of bias on individuals and groups, how to be an active bystander, developing an inclusive culture, and core introductory skills for coaching and mentoring

These sections are interspersed with periods of reading and video viewing, and time in the workplace for your learning to be reflected on and applied.