Angharad Dalton
Innovation Coaching Manager
innovationcoaching@socialcare.walesHave you thought about using our innovation coaching service, but you’re not sure what it is? Join our innovation coaching training to build your confidence in innovation coaching tools.
We launched our innovation coaching service in September 2023. Since then, our innovation coaches have been supporting individuals and teams to make positive changes in social care across Wales.
Innovation coaching uses innovation tools and a coaching approach to improve social care and help individuals develop by supporting them to identify goals and try out new ideas.
We offer up to 12 hours of free tailored support to individuals or teams.
Since September, we’ve been supporting a broad range of innovations, including work to:
Our work takes a coaching approach to addressing sector needs and challenges.
Since launching, we’ve focused on working flexibly to get an understanding of the best way to package and offer our support, to enable people who work in social care to make best use of it.
We’ve learned a lot about how we recruit to the service and work with clients, and we’ve experimented with how we deliver the coaching.
Testing these different methods will help make sure the service meets the needs of the sector effectively, now and into the future.
We’ve had positive feedback from people who’ve used the service, but we wanted to find new ways of explaining it and showing what it can do for the sector.
Our new innovation coaching training will show you how to use the tools and techniques we use in our coaching sessions.
The training has been split into four parts.
Parts one and two will focus on coaching and will:
Parts three and four will focus on innovation and show you how to use innovation tools to:
The training will allow you to get a taster of what innovation coaching can offer, as well as an opportunity to take the tools away to try yourself.
We hope that our innovation coaching training will help spread the awareness and use of helpful innovation and coaching practices, super-charging the innovation that we know occurs naturally in the sector.
If you’ve read this far, we’d love to see you at our training.
It’s open to anyone who works in social care in Wales. It’ll be particularly useful for:
We're currently taking bookings for our June and September courses.
Visit our Eventbrite page to book your place on the training, or find out more about the training here.
Innovation Coaching Manager
innovationcoaching@socialcare.wales