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This book offers an essential evaluation model so that leadership coaches and stakeholders can demonstrate the impact of their coaching programmes, challenging current thinking that the return on investment from leadership coaching is too complex to measure. The book is both practical and strategically informative, supporting coaches and organisations to plan confidently for the future as they collaborate over both short- and long-term decisions.The book provides:•Ideas and insights into the dissemination of evaluation data to key strategic destinations•Case studies that show how to evaluate Return on Investment (RoI) for both financial and non-financial targets such as behaviours, potential and wellbeing•Tips, templates and reflective activitiesRe-imaging evaluation as a strategic opportunity rather than an operational task enables leaders to perform in an agile way that is responsive to local and global uncertainties and business priorities.“It’s a pleasure to find a comprehensive, insightful and evidence-backed approach with practical examples of how [evaluation in coaching] can be done.”David Clutterbuck, Special Ambassador, European Mentoring and Coaching Council“A real aid for leaders, managers and indeed all organizational members.”Professor Peter Stokes, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK“‘Evaluating the Impact of Leadership Coaching’ makes for a great read from two writers interested in helping move the debate from the facile to the factual, and from ego to evidence.”Prof Jonathan Passmore, Senior VP CoachHub and Professor of Coaching and Behavioural Change, Henley Business School, UKMark Jamieson is an award-winning leadership coach and founder of the GreenWing Project focused on the development of young leaders. His coaching specialisms include youth leadership and women in business leadership.Tony Wall is Professor at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and an affiliated professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. Working with the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) in Brussels, he founded the EMCC provocations series.

A thought-provoking and engaging guide to coaching in an educational setting, demonstrating how to coach young people in the classroom and how to embed a coaching culture in schools.Aimed at teachers, school leaders and aspiring educators, Coaching in the Classroom reimagines the relationship between leadership coaching and education to maximise students' achievements and well-being. Drawing on the author’s experience and backed by rigorous research and theoretical underpinning, this book widens the scope of coaching in education. It’s no longer just about staff development but also about teachers working with young people.Based on a unique understanding of learning as a choice driven by curiosity, ambition and aspiration, the reader is guided how to integrate coaching and other innovative learning approaches such as team-based learning into an educational setting. Evidence is offered of the positive effect of coaching as a companion to conventional learning;enhancing academic achievementenriching the student experiencenurturing high achieversinspiring moderate performers with high potential, andre-engaging those who may be currently outside the academic mainstream.Well-crafted case studies help to promote critical thinking by inviting the reader to become involved, practically and intellectually in the application of new ideas and the conceptualisation of learning. These case studies illustrate the impact of coaching working in concert with pedagogical theories, to increase engagement, attendance, inclusion, and attainment as well as harnessing the hidden potential of future workers.

How to develop young people's leadership skills. A practical guide for anyone involved in nurturing, mentoring or educating young people or those interested in youth development.With the help of this book, coaches, teachers, and those working within youth organisations can apply new coaching techniques and ideas to support and fulfil the leadership potential of young people, exploring how to provide them with the skills to transition into adulthood and prepare them for leadership roles. This book introduces a three-stage coaching programme - authentication, development and ambition - as a framework for nurturing and developing young people. This book also draws on real-life case studies of leadership experiences at individual, community and societal levels as well as using reflective exercises to promote critical thinking.It emphasises the importance of acknowledging young people's roles in leadership and examines how to mentor future leaders by examining what current youth leadership looks like today and a vision for the future. It substantiates the claim that young people are an underused and underdeveloped leadership resource.

Bounded by the counties of Hampshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, the county of Wiltshire has several significant main line railway routes passing through it: to the north is the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to South Wales; the Berks & Hants route from Reading to Westbury runs through the heart of the county, and westwards to Taunton; and to the south of the county the former London & South Western Railway route runs from London Waterloo to Exeter, while the cross-country route from Southampton to Bath cuts across the county from the south-east to the north-west. Wiltshire is also home to the Great Western Railway town of Swindon, although it is now sadly a shadow of its former past.Covering more than thirty years, these previously unpublished photos show the diverse workings and traction that have passed through the county, from the days of British Rail to the privatised railway of today.

The main route to Devon and Cornwall passes through Somerset, with routes from Bristol and Westbury converging at Cogload Junction - 5 miles east of Taunton. To the south of the county is the former London & South Western Railway route from London Waterloo to Exeter via Yeovil Junction. Castle Cary on the section from Westbury to Taunton is the junction for the route to Yeovil Pen Mill, and southwards to Weymouth. The principal passenger train operator throughout the county is Great Western Railway (GWR), although Arriva CrossCountry runs a regular service to Exeter and Plymouth/Paignton/Penzance from the north. South West Trains solely operates the Waterloo to Exeter route, but has recently started to encroach on GWR territory by operating services to Yeovil and Weymouth from Salisbury via Warminster and Frome.In recent years freight traffic to the South West has become sparse, but Taunton still retains Fairwater Yard, to the west of the station, and is home to Network Rail’s High Output Renewals Train, which is operated by Freightliner Heavy Haul. Somerset is also home to the longest preserved railway in the country, the West Somerset Railway (WSR).Featuring previously unpublished images, Mark Jamieson illustrates the variety of traffic the county of Somerset has enjoyed over the years, from summer holiday trains to railtours and freight workings.

Return to the era when rail blue ruled supreme on the railways of Britain, when a wide variety of British-built trains operated from the highlands of Scotland, through the now vanished industrial north and midlands, through the Welsh valleys, across the suburban networks of the south-east, and through the picturesque West Country.In the dying days of British steam, the British Rail Design Research Unit in the 1960s introduced a modern new blue livery for diesel and electric locomotive;, blue and grey for coaching stock, blue for suburban stock, and the now iconic double-arrow symbol.Having lived through this lost era, Mark Jamieson provides a nostalgic and affectionate record of British Rail during the rail blue years. Illustrated throughout and with detailed captions, this is a comprehensive account of when the livery ruled the rails.

A record of over 150 beautiful pictures bring to life this important period in British railway history.

How to develop young people's leadership skills. A practical guide for anyone involved in nurturing, mentoring or educating young people or those interested in youth development.With the help of this book, coaches, teachers, and those working within youth organisations can apply new coaching techniques and ideas to support and fulfil the leadership potential of young people, exploring how to provide them with the skills to transition into adulthood and prepare them for leadership roles. This book introduces a three-stage coaching programme - authentication, development and ambition - as a framework for nurturing and developing young people. This book also draws on real-life case studies of leadership experiences at individual, community and societal levels as well as using reflective exercises to promote critical thinking.It emphasises the importance of acknowledging young people's roles in leadership and examines how to mentor future leaders by examining what current youth leadership looks like today and a vision for the future. It substantiates the claim that young people are an underused and underdeveloped leadership resource.