First-Line Managers

First-Line Manager Development

Embed learning, unlock high levels of performance

and transform culture – through coaching.

A Coaching Approach to Leadership

Even the most impressive-looking strategy or the best training won’t execute itself. It needs to be implemented by effective leaders, through coaching.


Coaching remains unparalleled in its ability to elicit the motivational energy required for high performance and embed the right behaviours so that the execution is as powerful as the plan. As such, coaching should be an integral part of the First-Line Manager’s role. 


Organisations that develop coaching as both an individual managerial capacity and an organisational one are those most able to make the right decisions faster and navigate change for the greater good.

A Coaching Approach to Leadership

Even the most impressive-looking strategy or the best training won’t execute itself. It needs to be implemented by effective leaders, through coaching.


Coaching remains unparalleled in its ability to elicit the motivational energy required for high performance and embed the right behaviours so that the execution is as powerful as the plan. As such, coaching should be an integral part of the First-Line Manager’s role. 


Organisations that develop coaching as both an individual managerial capacity and an organisational one are those most able to make the right decisions faster and navigate change for the greater good.

The ROI of Embedding Training with a Coaching Approach

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51%

51% of companies with a strong coaching culture report higher revenue than their industry peer group.


(Human Capital Institute)

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88%

88% increase in productivity when coaching and training are combined.



From Public Personnel Management 1997:26(4), pp 461-469

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7x return

7x return on investment from coaching.




(Fortune Magazine)

Coaching for Sustained Performance

Research by Professor Robert Brinkerhoff, an internationally recognised expert in learning effectiveness, reveals that traditional, instructor-led training with little focus on learning follow-up creates only 15% learning transfer, meaning that only 15% of the people you train will apply what they have learned when they return to the workplace. The common denominator among the 15%, according to the same research, is management involvement.


By stark contrast, a coaching approach whereby the follow-up is as important as the design of the learning achieves a learning transfer of 85%

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Data source: Telling Training’s Story, Rob Brinkerhoff

Compassionate Coaching

The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic and its destabilising repercussions, including the ‘Great Resignation’, have tested organisations, especially in relation to how leaders lead their workers.


The pandemic afforded people the time and space to reflect on their working lives and, more than ever before, employees are articulating their higher-level needs: for authentic connections, psychological safety, compassion, clarity and truth, growth and meaning.


We have seen successful leaders around the world respond positively, taking into account the full breadth of their employees’ needs as individuals. This is central to a ‘compassionate coaching’ approach to leadership that enables teams to thrive in times of change, reduce burnout and increase their resilience.


Compassionate coaching is goal-focused, solutions-orientated and measurable. It entails holding a non-judgmental space for the coachee in which they are encouraged to set motivating goals and explore the options that will take them from where they are now to where they want to get to. We support leaders to be able to move away from a reactive style based on their own experience towards a coaching style that empowers people to determine their own approach and holds them to account for their own performance.

Compassionate Coaching

The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic and its destabilising repercussions, including the ‘Great Resignation’, have tested organisations, especially in relation to how leaders lead their workers.


The pandemic afforded people the time and space to reflect on their working lives and, more than ever before, employees are articulating their higher-level needs: for authentic connections, psychological safety, compassion, clarity and truth, growth and meaning.


We have seen successful leaders around the world respond positively, taking into account the full breadth of their employees’ needs as individuals. This is central to a ‘compassionate coaching’ approach to leadership that enables teams to thrive in times of change, reduce burnout and increase their resilience.

Compassionate coaching is goal-focused, solutions-orientated and measurable. It entails holding a non-judgmental space for the coachee in which they are encouraged to set motivating goals and explore the options that will take them from where they are now to where they want to get to. We support leaders to be able to move away from a reactive style based on their own experience towards a coaching style that empowers people to determine their own approach and holds them to account for their own performance.

Compassionate Coaching

The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic and its destabilising repercussions, including the ‘Great Resignation’, have tested organisations, especially in relation to how leaders lead their workers.


The pandemic afforded people the time and space to reflect on their working lives and, more than ever before, employees are articulating their higher-level needs: for authentic connections, psychological safety, compassion, clarity and truth, growth and meaning.


We have seen successful leaders around the world respond positively, taking into account the full breadth of their employees’ needs as individuals. This is central to a ‘compassionate coaching’ approach to leadership that enables teams to thrive in times of change, reduce burnout and increase their resilience.

Compassionate coaching is goal-focused, solutions-orientated and measurable. It entails holding a non-judgmental space for the coachee in which they are encouraged to set motivating goals and explore the options that will take them from where they are now to where they want to get to. We support leaders to be able to move away from a reactive style based on their own experience towards a coaching style that empowers people to determine their own approach and holds them to account for their own performance.

Identifying the strategic Learning and Development (L&D) needs and embedding behaviour change in complex, global organisations can be challenging.


We support Training Managers with the capabilities or additional expert resource they need to identify, build and implement effective learning solutions consistently and at scale, and we equip First-Line Mangers with the coaching capabilities to embed, apply and sustain the learning. When these two things work in harmony, they have a significant impact on outcomes and performance.

What We Offer

We will equip you, through virtual or face-to-face training, with the tools you need to achieve performance breakthroughs.


This invariably means helping you to:

1)  understand your leadership style

2)  identify and overcome any limiting beliefs you may have

3)  strengthen your core coaching skills and apply them successfully

Sample Our Manager Coaching Tools

Experience Purposefully Blended Compassionate Coaching

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We invite you to experience our powerful, one-to-one coaching for yourself to appreciate the difference it can make as a supplement to our formal learning provision.         


Our outstanding ICF-certified mindset coaches use a combination of our IMPACT™ system and a number of scientifically validated diagnostic tools to support leaders across the globe. With their expert guidance, you will discover and understand what is holding you and your teams back, enabling you to solve a variety of challenges so that you can be more effective in your role as a leader and as a coach. 


Examples of our support could include providing you with the help you need to adjust your leadership styles for greater alignment, developing your coaching style, enabling more effective outcome measurement and adopting a more ‘adult to adult’, partnering approach with your stakeholders.

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Mindset Matters

Develop the mindsets for effective leadership

2.4X

Companies that have successfully adopted growth mindsets are 2.4X more likely to outperform their peers.

(Source: McKinsey & Company)

Mindset Matters

Develop the mindsets for effective leadership

2.4X

Companies that have successfully adopted growth mindsets are 2.4X more likely to outperform their peers.

(Source: McKinsey & Company)

Although there has been much warranted support for a growth mindset, the complexity of what leaders need in order to be successful can’t be understood by a singular mindset.


Leaders with a ‘growth mindset’ will see their people proactively respond to challenges and take calculated risks more often. But leaders who additionally possess an inclusive mindset will seek the informed opinion of others to obtain different insights and points of view and will see their teams mirroring this behaviour. Leaders who can embody an agile stance will have the ability to meet uncertainty with clarity and flexibility and will reap empowered teams with a ‘can do’ mentality. And leaders who are able to connect the day-to-day work of their teams to a compelling vision will be most adept at strengthening connections and building a culture that drives engagement and delivers desired outcomes. 

Three Reasons To Work With Us

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We’re experienced ICF-certified coaches, consultants and business professionals with an extensive track record of success. Our clients give our coaches and facilitators a 4.8/5-star rating – so you’re in very good hands.

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We blend bold ambition with gritty realism born from decades of global Learning and Development and leadership experience to ensure your organisation achieves breakthrough performance outcomes. 

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We practise what we preach. We embed the learning achieved with follow-up coaching. The First-Line Manager gets to experience firsthand the benefit of compassionate coaching.

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We’re experienced ICF-certified coaches, consultants and business professionals with an extensive track record of success. Our clients give our coaches and facilitators a 4.8/5-star rating – so you’re in very good hands.

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We blend bold ambition with gritty realism born from decades of global Learning and Development and leadership experience to ensure your organisation achieves breakthrough performance outcomes. 

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We practise what we preach. We embed the learning achieved with follow-up coaching. The First-Line Manager gets to experience firsthand the benefit of compassionate coaching.

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We’re experienced ICF-certified coaches, consultants and business professionals with an extensive track record of success. Our clients give our coaches and facilitators a 4.8/5-star rating – so you’re in very good hands.

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We blend bold ambition with gritty realism born from decades of global Learning and Development and leadership experience to ensure your organisation achieves breakthrough performance outcomes. 

Purposefully-Blended-Learning-and-Development

We practise what we preach. We embed the learning achieved with follow-up coaching. The First-Line Manager gets to experience firsthand the benefit of compassionate coaching.

I recently worked with Purposefully Blended on a tailored intensive coaching program to support me in transitioning to a new role. Purposefully Blended was excellent in working around my particular focus, blending the learning and coaching to reframe my thinking, ultimately building confidence to take on a new challenge.

Matthew Lucas, UK Market Access Director, Accession

I recently worked with Purposefully Blended on a tailored intensive coaching program to support me in transitioning to a new role. Purposefully Blended was excellent in working around my particular focus, blending the learning and coaching to reframe my thinking, ultimately building confidence to take on a new challenge.

Matthew Lucas, UK Market Access Director, Accession

Leaders and managers are key to making learning interventions stick and overcoming limiting beliefs that hold back high performance.


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by Lucy Philip 18 Dec, 2023
We are delighted to announce that our CEO and Founder, Lucy Philip, has won the 'Live Facilitator of the Year' award at The National Facilitator Awards! The National Facilitator Awards are the UK’s only awards dedicated to celebrating facilitators who deliver exceptional training. They recognise facilitators who are making a real impact on the industry and the lives of those they work with.
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by Lucy Philip 18 Dec, 2023
Did you know that our Founder & CEO, Lucy Philip, was recently asked to write an article for the renowned online publication Chief Learning Officer (CLO)? CLO focuses on the importance, benefits and advancements of a properly trained workforce and brings together a community of visionary C-suite and senior-level practitioners, executives, scholars, consultants and solutions providers in corporate learning and talent management.
by Lucy Philip 08 Oct, 2023
We are excited to announce that our CEO & Founder of Purposefully Blended, Lucy Philip, has been awarded the LinkedIn status of ‘Top Training and Development (HR) Voice.’
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