Introduction to Coaching Skills - The BSG is partnering with the Faculty of Medical Coaches to provide its members with a half day virtual workshop on 19 November 2025. Enhance your listening skills and discover how to make conversations with patients and colleagues more effective and productive.

Unlock the power of coaching with our Introduction to Coaching Skills workshop, delivered in partnership with the Faculty of Medical Coaches. Taking place virtually on the afternoon of 19 November 2025, this interactive half-day session is designed to help BSG members strengthen their listening, questioning, and rapport-building abilities—skills that can transform everyday conversations with patients and colleagues. Through practical exercises, live demonstrations, and guided reflection, you’ll explore the foundations of coaching: what it is, how it works, and why it matters. From goal setting and the Circle of Control to knowing when to offer advice and when to ask powerful questions, this workshop will equip you with tools to make your interactions more effective, supportive, and impactful.

What’s included

• Sharing participants’ previous experiences of coaching and being coached
• Exploring the background, context, and aims of coaching
• Key Person Exercise to reflect on coaching in practice
• Understanding What is Coaching? and its uses
• Tools for effective goal setting
• The Circle of Control framework
• Core coaching skills: building trust and rapport, active listening, summarising, and questioning (with demos and exercises)
• The Advice Exercise: when to give advice and when to ask questions
• Practising the art of asking powerful questions

Register for this workshop here