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Skill Builder for HR: Workplace Coaching Skills
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
12:30 - 14:00 ( 1 hour 30 mins )
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This event is part of the Skill Builder for HR series: 90-minute practical HR and employment law sessions designed exclusively for senior HR professionals and business leaders in Northern Ireland.
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90 Minutes Duration
26th August -
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€175.00
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Overview

Skill Builder for HR: Workplace Coaching Skills 

HR professionals and managers coach employees every day, often without realising it. But knowing when to coach, when to manage, and how to ask the right questions can make the difference between a conversation that goes in circles and one that delivers real results.

Led by Marie Ferris of Thrive Coaching & Development, this practical Skill Builder session will help you develop workplace coaching skills you can apply immediately to performance conversations, employee development, and manager support. You'll leave with a simple framework and techniques to make your conversations more focused, productive, and impactful.


Ideal for:

  • HR professionals looking to strengthen their coaching and people-development skills
  • People managers who regularly support employee growth and performance
  • Line managers seeking to improve the quality of workplace conversations
  • HR practitioners who coach managers through complex people issues
  • Anyone responsible for developing talent, improving performance, or supporting employee development

This training session will include:

  • Expert-led presentation from Marie Ferris, Thrive Coaching & Development
  • Live Q&A session
  • Facilitated peer discussion and shared learning
  • Practical workplace examples and coaching techniques
  • Actionable takeaways that can be applied immediately in your role

Topics Covered:

  • The role of coaching: what it is and what it isn't
  • Coaching versus managing: choosing the right approach in real workplace situations
  • Asking powerful questions and listening for deeper insight
  • Using a simple coaching framework to encourage action and achieve results

By the end of this course, you’ll learn:

  • How to confidently switch between coaching and managing while maintaining authority and momentum
  • A practical questioning approach that helps move conversations beyond surface-level issues and towards meaningful action
  • How to apply a clear coaching framework that keeps discussions focused, purposeful, and outcome-driven
  • Techniques for encouraging greater ownership, reflection, and accountability in workplace conversations
  • Ways to use coaching skills to support employee development, performance improvement, and manager effectiveness

Secure your place today!

You can book and pay by card or request an invoice at the payment page. Employment Law Hub members can attend this session for free (Ts&Cs apply).

Presenters
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Marie Ferris Founder
Marie Ferris Founder
Marie ferris

Marie has 25 years experience of facilitating organisational and personal development programmes.

  • Accredited Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching, with a wide range of coaching experience.

  • Highly experienced Team Coach at senior level, with a Masters in Human Resource Management, focused on coaching in organisations.

  • Extensive experience of delivering Coaching and Mentoring Skills training, including ILM accredited programmes, and at postgraduate and Masters level, as well as developing internal coaching and mentoring networks.

  • MBTI qualified, a Master NLP Practitioner and experienced in the application of a wide range of tools and assessment including team roles, 360 degree feedback, emotional intelligence, positive psychology and resilience.

  • Marie was an External Quality Advisor for ILM for 5 years, advising centres on leadership development and coaching qualifications across Ireland and Europe.

Before establishing Thrive, Marie was Professional Development Manager at Ulster University where she was responsible for designing, developing and delivering bespoke senior leadership development and leading on the delivery of organisational development initiatives, including programmes to support organisational change and re-structuring, and enhance employee engagement and wellbeing. She successfully implemented a range of coaching programmes across the institution, including delivery of accredited coaching programmes to University staff and students, establishing and developing an internal coaching infrastructure and providing executive coaching to senior leaders. Marie won an IITD National Training Award for Excellence in Coaching for the coaching programmes and services at Ulster University and co-authored a best practice case study for the Leadership Foundation in Higher Education, based on the work to create a coaching culture in the university.

Marie continues to work with Ulster University in an associate role, facilitating coaching modules in postgraduate and masters programmes.

Whilst much of her career has been in large organisations, her work with ILM since 2015 has given her the opportunity to work with SMEs and the voluntary and charity sector to provide support and advice on the development of new programmes and audit the implementation of existing leadership development and coaching skill programmes.

Marie is a longstanding and active member of the Association for Coaching, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Institute of Leadership and Management, as well as a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

She is passionate about the impact that coaching and development programmes can have for individuals, teams and organisations. She founded Thrive to help organisations build and capitalise on the power and impact of coaching, bringing tried and tested, proven approaches that work, but tailored to their specific needs.

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