Tag Archives: coaching
Jan
Mentoring & coaching
In addition to formal training, OCR fosters skills development via coaching and mentoring. Areas in which we have provided coaching and mentoring include small business development, venture capital pitches, careers coaching, and scientific skills, including science writing and data analysis. We have developed organisational mentoring programmes, and also participated in a coaching and mentoring research programme run by Manchester Business School.
Case studies
Mentoring of young scientists/junior staff
OCR has provided one to one mentoring of young scientists and junior staff in the area of scientific communication (verbal and written) and staff management issues. This has included ongoing support over a period of several months or years, once off support, and co-supervisions of academic projects/PhDs.
Developing a mentoring programme
Our client was responsible for delivering all of the professional development activities to primary and secondary level teachers in a European country. Part of their secondary level support involved the mentoring of school principals. Together with Jerry Cronin, OCR designed a mentoring programme, including training for mentors and evaluation processes, which was adopted and implemented by our client.
Tagged | coaching, data analysis, mentoring, scientific writing, skills
Jan
Formal training
OCR provides customised skills training in a variety of areas, for example, creativity skills, qualitative data analysis, scientific communication.
Case studies
Qualitative research training
A large consumer goods company wished to provide ‘in service’ training to staff involved in commissioning and/or conducting qualitative research. OCR developed a two day training course, using examples from company projects and covering advanced skills in different methods of data collection and analysis. This was followed up by one-to-one coaching for selected individuals on a ‘live’ project.
Researching “dislocative” technology with consumers
A large consumer goods company was concerned that they were not researching radically new technology as well as they might be. OCR reviewed two project case studies and generated a series of principles and pitfalls, based on existing theory and in house guidelines, in “researching the really new” and disseminated these via a one day training course.
Tagged | coaching, communication, creativity, innovation, qualitative data analysis, qualitative research, scientific writing, technology, training