Personal & Professional Development Coaching Service

For Autumn, 2025 YouthBorders launched a brand new personal and professional development coaching service.

YouthBorders prioritises leadership development at all levels within the Youth Sector and our coaching services is linked directly to our 5 core values and 3 sectoral priorities;

Our Values

• Honesty: we will be open, truthful, and trustworthy

• Empathy: we will be understanding, compassionate and kind

• Accountable: we will try our best and take responsibility for our actions

• Supportive: we will be informed, knowledgeable, responsive, and proactive

• Forward Thinking: we will seek opportunities to advance our network, be prepared to take risks, and to invest in our people and communities for the longer term

Our Priorities

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Collaboration & Partnership

A youth work sector which collaborates and works in partnership

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Voice & Community

To have a membership which is connected, empowered and represented

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Workforce Development

A membership, which is supported, confident and competent.

Professional coaching is a transformative process which seeks to support individuals or teams to achieve their full potential and reach professional goals. The process involves working with a qualified coach for a period of time to identify goals, provide support through a balance of challenge, support and guidance and deep reflecton and analysis of potential barriers and ways to overcome them. The coaching process can lead to significant personal and professional growth which in turn can empower individuals and teams to increase performance in the workplace.

Some of the benefits of coaching for your organisation are;

+ Enhanced self-awareness that helps individuals recognise their own strengths and barriers.

+ Accelerated leadership development that prepares individuals for challenges and opportunities.

+ Improved management and navigation through change and uncertainty

+ Positive and supportive workplace culture which empowers individuals and develops a greater sense of ownership and accountability within teams.

+ Enabled leaders at all levels within an organisation, improving communication, cooperation, collective and individual accountability, trust adaptability.

Building coaching into your organisational structures can significantly improve staff wellbeing, morale and lead to a more positive workplace culture. This is proven to reduce staff absence, turnover and even help with successful recruitment.

What Coaching Services can Youth Borders Offer?

New to Youth Work Programme

Open to any new youth worker or junior worker who wants to explore their potential or work towards a specific target. Perhaps there is something you are struggling with in terms of your core role, perhaps it’s a wider challenge such as fitting everything into a small-time window, or you feel you are not making progress with young people you work with. Whatever the issue may be, coaching can certainly help you at such an important and significant time in your career.

Lead Youth Worker / Middle Leaders / Supervisors

Sometimes our first experience of leadership comes unexpectedly and most often a leader does not feel ready. if you have taken on an early leadership role or a supervisory position this can be one of the most daunting and demanding times in your career. You can be pulled in all sorts of directions and just want to get it right. Coaching can make a real difference in shaping the type of leader you want to become and is a safe space to be able to discuss and troubleshoot with non-judgemental support. Your coach will listen, ask questions empathetically but will also look to challenge you and set goals which will seek to explore the solutions which are right for you.

Trustees

Trusteeship is a challenging role, no matter how experienced you are. From new trustees through to more experienced trustees who have been part of numerous organisations, challenges are always unique and nuanced and so require a considered approach.

Through the YouthBorders Trustees Network, we aim to develop a close-knit professional support group through a coaching approach. This could take place at group events and networking through collaborative work or by teaming up with a trustee who may be able to support you on your own journey.

So, if you are a trustee for an organisation in our membership and haven’t already attended a trustees’ network event, then please join us at any of our upcoming events.

Manager / Senior Leader – Leadership Development Programme

Building on the middle leader programme, the manager/senior leader development programme aims to work exclusively with these leaders to support and guide those who are managing organisations and whole teams. The challenges of leadership can be complex and at times overwhelming, particularly during uncertain times. Leadership can also be a lonely place. Coaching offers leaders the chance to discuss in a confidential manner, the personal and profession challenges being faced with a solution focused mindset. The coaching approach will aim to dig deeper into specific challenges or situations and challenge you to consider processes and approaches which you may not have considered. Sometimes it may even be something you have considered but didn’t have the confidence or guidance to give it a go. Leadership coaching will place your wellbeing at heart of the process and strive to develop empathetic leadership skills which can be taken back to your own organisation and teams.

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