CoachingOurselves is a key component to any comprehensive learning initiative. It enhances people skills, builds trust, enables knowledge sharing, encourages reflection and formalizing learning as a process. HR Professionals blend CoachingOurselves with other approaches to create a continuous and informal learning environment that facilitates employee engagement and innovation.

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"Our core organizational learning issue has always been how to make it 'real' and relevant to the specific individuals and specific organizational context of the participants... In CoachingOurselves we found it.."
Graham Barkus, Head of Organization Development at Cathay Pacific Airways
"You wonder, how can something this simple work. But it creates thinking points. The process promotes better leadership through engagement. It has given us a common language of management. It is a structured conversation but does not impose a structure. It draws out our experience, relates to our felt needs."
Dr. Chris Eagle, CEO of Alberta Health Services, Staff of 117,000 people.
"The (CoachingOurselves) sessions have become a precious 'Ba' where 'lonely' managers can reflect on their management style and talk with their colleagues frankly."
Mr. Kentaro Iijima, Senior Corporate Vice President, Fujitsu Business Consulting, Japan.
"The Coaching Ourselves program is unique in that it allows us to build potential leaders for the future from all levels of the organization."
Liz Davy, former national human resources director for Bayshore Home Health
"It’s consistently turned out to be one of the most valuable parts of the day."
Rob Neill, Head of Global Marketing, Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel Switzerland.

Some managers commented, "It has been the best training program I've experienced over the 30 years since I joined the company."

Chieko KAMIYAMA, Global Marketing and Sales Planning Department