Coach on Tap

Coaching: just when you need it

Our new coaching solution gives individuals, teams and organisations a simple and effective way to get coaching – just when it’s needed.

Sometimes, you need to talk things through and get some perspective. But there are time when a chat with a friend or colleague just won’t cut it. And you don’t feel able to discuss it with your manager. It’s times like that that you can benefit from a one-off conversation with an experienced coaching psychologist – without the requirement to sign up to a six-month package.

Preparing for an interview. Absorbing and acting on feedback you’ve received. Getting ready for a big event. Setting some goals. Just talking it through with someone who’s not going to judge you and can help facilitate you clarifying a way forward.

Individuals can book a single session with one of our core coaching team. Organisations buy a pool of coaching sessions per month, accessible by employees via a client-specific coaching calendar. An elegantly scaleable solution starting at just five coaching sessions per month.

Read on to find out more.

Why ‘Coach on Tap’?

Despite the positive impact workplace coaching can have on performance, productivity and wellbeing, it is still often viewed as a development intervention reserved for senior executives.

We want to change that.

Evidence shows us that in-house workplace coaches can get great results, but not every business has a sufficient pool of trained coaches to make this viable. Additionally, the costs associated with some traditional executive coaching solutions means offering coaching to the wider employee population can be prohibitive.

At WorkLifePsych, we believe that coaching is for everyone and so we have created a cost-efficient, flexible and impactful solution we call ‘Coach on Tap’. This means coaching can be made available to individual contributors, technical specialists, team leaders and junior managers, without incurring the cost and commitment of executive coaching.

And if you have aspiring and existing leaders that could benefit from coaching, check out our Leadership Coaching solutions.

How does it work?

For organisations: a WorkLifePsych coach is assigned to your organisation. A minimum of five, one-hour coaching slots are made available to the organisation each month, and appointments are made via our easy-to-use online booking system.

Access to the service can be managed centrally (e.g. by your HR team) or after an appropriate briefing, your employees can book their own coaching sessions with us directly, via an organisation-specific online calendar. They can book a single session and simply put their insights into action straight away, or benefit from a few sessions, as the need arises.

This meets the needs of the organisation and its employees, providing access to high quality coaching, supported by flexibility and an accessible price point – all without unnecessary long-term commitment for individuals or needless expenditure or administration for the organisation.

We can help you launch and communicate the process with a free webinar, to ensure that coaching sessions are used appropriately.

For individuals: you choose the coaching psychologist you’d like to speak to and purchase a single coaching session.

This could represent the start of a coaching journey, or just the one-off conversation that can help you get ‘unstuck’. We’ll ensure it’s impactful and useful and you get clarity on how to take your insights forward. Whether you decide to book another session at some point in the future is completely up to you.

Work with our expert coaches

Dr. Richard MacKinnon

Chartered Coaching Psychologist

Find out more about Richard and his experience here.

Dr. Rachael Skews

Chartered Coaching Psychologist

Find out more about Rachael and her experience here.

Dr. Wayne Mullen

Organisational Psychologist & Coach

Find out more about Wayne and his experience here.

Ross McIntosh

Organisational Psychologist & Coach

Find out more about Ross and his experience here.

Lucie Ilbury

Chartered Coaching Psychologist

Find out more about Lucie and her experience here.

Why work with us?

As a team of accredited psychologists, with deep experience in providing agile coaching solutions, we set ourselves apart in the following ways.

Domain knowledge

As psychologists, we have a deep, scientific understanding of how people think, feel and behave at work. Our training has included a deep understanding of personality and ability at work, of wellbeing and productivity, and how to effect lasting behaviour change.

Coaching expertise

In addition to our deep domain knowledge, we all possess advanced coaching skills, enabling us to support your employees while also holding them accountable to the commitments they make. After all, coaching is far more than just simple goal-setting.

Ongoing CPD and supervision

Our professional accreditation and registrations require that we engage in ongoing Continuing Professional Development – which keeps skills and knowledge sharp – as well as professional supervision, which ensures we remain reflective practitioners who can access support when we need it.

Evidence-based practice

As scientist-practitioners, we use the approaches and tools that work. We avoid fads and fashions (learning styles, anyone?) or truisms that fail to stand up to scrutiny (30 days to build a new habit? Not really…).

How you could use these coaching sessions

Unlike traditional coaching arrangements, where the coachee signs up for multiple coaching sessions in advance, employees utilising ‘Coach on Tap’ need only commit to the session they’ve booked.

At the end of the session, or even after, they can consider whether an additional session may be useful for them. This approach maximises the number of employees who can access the service. Before launching with your organisation, we can run a webinar or in-house briefing to ensure that everyone is clear on what coaching is and how it can best be used. The following represents just a brief selection of ‘Coach on Tap’ scenarios.

Dealing with feedback

John has received some challenging performance feedback from his manager and wants to understand how he can get past his frustration and take action on it. A single coaching session with one of our team helps him understand the difference between his perspective and that of his manager, the origin of his feelings about the feedback and an agreed next step to take this forward with his manager.

Interview preparation

Susan has been put forward for a promotion to team leader, but first needs to pass a panel interview. It’s been a while since her last selection interview, so she’s feeling nervous. Two sessions with one of our coaches can help Susan get clear on her strengths and how to discuss them, practice her interview technique and deal with her anxiety about the interview process.

Productivity challenges

Erica has just been made a junior manager, but is having trouble managing her new workload and responsibilities. Coaching with one of our team can help her get clarity on her new priorities, start delegating more effectively and adopt a working style that’s both productive and sustainable in the longer term.

Addressing procrastination

Sean is a talented technical specialist, whose capabilities aren’t in doubt. However, his pattern of procrastination and the impact it has on his colleagues is causing him real difficulties. Working with a WorkLifePsych coach helps Sean understand why he procrastinates periodically and gives him the tools to break this unsustainable habit.

Great reasons to go with ‘Coach on Tap’

Expert coaches

Our coaching psychologists are experienced and accredited. They have worked across varied organisational contexts and with professionals at all levels of seniority. So whether it’s wellbeing, productivity or effectiveness, you know your people are in safe hands.

A scaleable solution

As your requirements for coaching increase, so does our capacity to support you. We can supply more than one coach on the same day or spread multiple coaching days within the same month. And of course, should requirements decrease, we can move back to providing a single coach, on a single day each month.

Minimise admin with our online booking system

Opening up coaching to more employees may seem like an administrative nightmare. We can support you to communicate and launch the initiative successfully, minimising the ongoing administration. Coachees reserve coaching sessions via our online booking system.

Develop your organisation's coaching culture

Many organisations strive for the creation of a coaching culture, but activity stalls after offering coaching to senior leaders. Making coaching available to a wider population is a key step in embedding that coaching culture, making coaching an accessible part of ‘how we do things here’.

Introduce coaching to a wider population

You may want to facilitate coaching for your more junior staff, but have been put off by the costs associated with executive coaching. With Coach on Campus, you can have six coaching sessions for less than the price of a single executive session.

Support your people during change

Organisational change can be unsettling for employees, so providing drop-in change-focused coaching sessions over a period of months can support and reassure them. This can minimise the disruption felt during change and maintain focus and productivity.

Get in touch with us today to find out more