Team Development Programme

Is your charitable organisation facing challenges like burnout culture, frustrated team members, an unhealthy working environment, or low morale?

You're not alone. Research has shown that more than 9 out of 10 charity employees have experienced stress, overwhelm, or burnout in the past year, with over 80% admitting they were more likely to put themselves in situations that led to stress and burnout, especially when their charity's cause area or service users were facing a crisis.

It's clear that the charity sector is facing significant and demanding pressures. But what can be done to support the people who make it all possible?

Organisation Challenges

Your charity's mission is incredibly important, but it should not come at the expense of your team's well-being and effectiveness. Burnout and team frustrations can restrain your organisation's ability to make a meaningful impact.

My Team Development Programmes are designed to address these challenges and equip your team with the tools and strategies they need to thrive while supporting your organisation’s beneficiaries and pursuing its mission.

Together We Can

Work collaboratively to build a stronger, more resilient, and more effective organisation, by:

  • Creating a pipeline of talent throughout Management and Leadership.

  • Retaining and supporting your team.

  • Building a healthy working culture where the people who make it all possible can avoid burnout, feel valued, and contribute confidently to your charity's mission.

Programme Content

  • Module 1: Burnout Prevention and Healthy Working Culture

    In this module, we'll explore burnout prevention and well-being strategies. Topics covered include recognising early signs of burnout, effective time management, prioritisation, and boundary-setting, as well as tailored stress relief techniques for those in the charity sector.

  • Module 2: Team Communication and Collaboration

    This module focuses on strengthening team dynamics and enhancing collaboration. We'll delve into cultivating trust, positive team relationships, effective collaboration and communication techniques, and ways to celebrate achievements and address challenges collectively.

  • Module 3: Leadership and Management Development

    In the final module, we'll explore visionary leadership principles specific to charitable organisations. Topics include defining a compelling vision for your charity, building strong communication and conflict resolution skills, and motivating and inspiring teams towards a shared mission.

  1. C-Me Colour Profiling:
    Supercharge your team's communication and collaboration. This tool enhances self-awareness, promotes understanding among team members, and leads to heightened connection and innovation.

  2. In-person Facilitation:
    A day where inspiration unites with collaboration, where your team's passion is reignited, and the bonds that drive your shared mission grow stronger.

  3. Group Workshops:
    Interactive sessions featuring presentations, group discussions, hands-on activities, and resources to help embed the learning operationally.

  4. Coaching & Mentoring:
    Tailored 1:1 sessions to discuss C-Me Colour Profiling Reports, find solutions to individual challenges, develop goals for growth, create an effective action plan and nurture accountability.

Programme Structure

Case Study

I worked with, a small charity focused on providing safe drinking water in emergencies, who were struggling with significant challenges. Their CEO and other senior staff were burnt out, affecting their well-being and the confidence of the teams. Increased workloads across the organisation were fueling frustration among team members.

To address these challenges, the charity and I worked through my Team Development Programme. Taking the organisation through a series of group Workshops, C-Me Colour Profiling, and Coaching.

The results were transformative: attendees overcame burnout, and team confidence was restored. Frustrations were reduced, and the organisation's culture improved. The charity is now better equipped to fulfil its mission while ensuring the well-being of the people that make it all possible.

By participating in this programme, your organisation can expect:

  • Strategies to overcome and manage burnout, enabling effective leadership.

  • Restoration of your team's confidence in leadership and the organisation.

  • Reduction of workload-related frustrations among team members.

  • Improvement of your organisation's culture, promoting a healthier work environment.

  • Ensuring a more sustainable impact, allowing your team to avoid burnout and contribute confidently to your charity's mission.

Testimonials

  • Raphael Rowe

    Bethany's coaching expertise is commendable.

    Coaching has been a transformative experience for me, both personally and professionally. Seeking to declutter my thoughts and focus my attention, I have been enriched with valuable insights during our sessions. Reviewing our notes between sessions, I've realised the significant progress I've made—it has exceeded my expectations. I wholeheartedly endorse coaching as an essential personal investment for my well-being and development. Thanks to coaching, I am now confident in articulating the mission of my foundation when discussing potential funders.

    Bethany's coaching expertise is commendable. Her skilful approach allowed me to clear my thoughts of the micro and focus on the macro. Bethany is patient and has a box of tricks to guide me beyond the conversation. Following coaching with Bethany, I feel reassured that I am achieving the goals I set for myself and for others. My biggest takeaway is that I now feel more confident in my role as founder and director of my foundation. Through practical tips and strategies, I've learned to find a balance between my busy career and personal life.

    Bethany's character and coaching methods make you stop and think about what you're actually achieving. People doing good in the world often neglect to reflect on the work they're doing, but everyone can benefit from having a coach at some point on the journey.

    Raphael Rowe

    British Journalist
    Host of Netflix's 'Inside the World's Toughest Prisons’
    Founder of the Raphael Rowe Foundation

  • Bethany, she has well and truly quashed any scepticism I had about the power of coaching!

    I'm so thankful for being introduced to Bethany, she has well and truly quashed any scepticism I had about the power of coaching! Now I'm a strong believer that everyone would benefit from time with her, she has really helped me to adopt a much healthier and rewarding mindset around my work–life balance.

    Throughout my career in med comms and now independent med ed (maybe even before then!) I've had burnout tendencies largely due to crippling self-doubt and imposter syndrome. Thanks to Bethany's tailored approach with regular, friendly check-ins that incorporate helpful self-reflection activities and setting purposeful goals/intentions, she has helped me to be more aware and take very positive steps to build my self-confidence and arm me with strategies that enable me to feel more in control and more resilient in general, and (most importantly!) within well-defined work–life boundaries.

    Whatever stage you are in your career, if you're looking to make positive changes in your professional and personal life, I can vouch for Bethany being the best support in helping you to achieve your aspirations.

    Thank you, Bethany, you know how much I appreciate your wonderful work!

    Christina Mackins-Crabtree, PhD, CMPP
    Senior Medical Director, Touch Independent Medical Education

  • Working with Bethany was a pleasure!

    Bethany supported a number of senior people across our group over the past year or so. Feedback was very positive indeed - I highly recommend investing in your people and working with Bethany was a pleasure!

    Barney Kent
    Group Chief Executive Officer, Touch Medical Media Group Holdings

  • it was great to have one-to-one focussed time with Bethany!

    I didn't know what to expect or what coaching would achieve, but it was great to have one-to-one focussed time with Bethany and find practical and logical solutions to ongoing work-related issues. I would never have thought of how to tackle particular challenges without Bethany's help, and for that I am very grateful. I am now passing on her advice to other team members!

    Sola Neunie
    Principal Medical Director, Touch Independent Medical Education

  • Testimonial

    Thanks to Bethany I now know my worth and how I can be an asset to organisations!

    I sort coaching because I found myself at a crossroads with my career and felt stuck in knowing what I wanted to do next. Bethany's fulfilment programme really helped me unpick what I wanted out of my career and gave me tools and advice on how to help my journey along. In each session we set actions to work towards achieving my goals and Bethany held me accountable for these which I really needed.

    For years I'd had ideas on what I would maybe want to do but never gave myself the time to put these ideas into action, Bethany gave me a structure to be able to put these into motion. Since starting the programme I have completed over half of my 2022 career goals and have been offered a new role!

    Thanks to Bethany I now know my worth and how I can be an asset to organisations. I have already recommended Awen to many of my friends and colleagues and I will continue to do so as Bethany’s programme is excellently developed and working with Bethany has been a pleasure. Thank you for everything Bethany, I'm very grateful for all your help and support.

    Stefanie Humphries
    Executive Assistant, Public Health Wales

  • I no longer feel like an imposter in my job!

    I enjoy and value the coaching sessions with Bethany and they have now become an important part of my personal tool kit. Access to a confidential space where I can build the skills I need to navigate my work and personal life has been so positive!

    I feel more confident, calm, and far better able to cope with and respond to the challenges I face. I no longer feel like an imposter in my job! I love the way that Bethany gently guides our discussions, often leading me to a range of realisations and 'light bulb' moments that I probably would never have discovered without her. Thank you, Bethany!

    Victoria Samuel
    Fundraising Manager, Welsh Women’s Aid

  • Bethany did an excellent job of reflective listening!

    I sought coaching because I was in need of digging myself out of a hole. Bethany guided me out of the depths of darkness and confusion in my job. This allowed me to step aside from my feelings and state of being overwhelmed to address pressing issues. Bethany did a great job making me feel comfortable with sharing issues and feelings about the work that I was doing. She worked to make sure that I felt validated in what was concerning me.

    Bethany supported me during sessions by allowing me to dump all my thoughts and concerns into a pile and then very carefully prioritise and make them more manageable to work on. Bethany helped me consider my priorities at my job so that I could create appropriate goals suitable for my capacity. Bethany put structure into my very disorganised way of life and managed to help me sort out the main overarching issues so that I could make appropriate decisions and move forward.

    Bethany did an excellent job of reflective listening! Though I was a bit rambling in explaining the issues I was working on, Bethany was able to understand, and clearly and succinctly summarise my ramblings in a very eloquent way. I insist she follows me to work and translates my daily ramblings to others in the same succinct and effective way.

    Bethany made sure that my action items were doable, which helped me to see them as achievable, and in turn, startable. I find overly complicated tasks are easier to push off until another time.

    In the end, sorting the chaos was the number one goal, and Bethany did fab.

    Jody Haskin
    Executive Director, International Organization for Adolescents

  • Bethany has changed my life!

    Bethany has changed my life!

    Coaching with Bethany has picked me up off the floor and given me a good dusting off. I felt an incredible sense of trust that I was in the right hands. Bethany provided wonderful support to me while empowering me to look deeper behind my assumptions to unlock my potential.

    I now feel so motivated, which is something I really needed. I can honestly say Coaching with Bethany has changed my life! I have been able to clearly see what is not working in my life, have the confidence to change it and move forward into a more positive and fulfilled life. I’m telling everyone I know that they should have coaching with Bethany!

    Beth House
    Founder of Taking Flight & Executive Director at Fio

  • I can't recommend Bethany highly enough!

    Stepping up into an executive leadership role for an interim period I knew I wanted to get the most from the opportunity but also take the experience to develop my own self-reflection and build confidence, I needed a coach! and thankfully I found Bethany.

    Bethany brought structure, clarity, and fun to our sessions; I set achievable goals thanks to Bethany's challenge and reality-checking. She teased out all the hidden skills learned over many years linking them to successes I had moved on from to rebuild confidence and self-reflection.

    Bethany gave me the space to challenge my own thinking and confirm my solutions, gave me frameworks to explore what I wanted to achieve from this new experience at work and how to balance it all.

    I can honestly say this has been a most rewarding and valuable time spent with Bethany and I know I will be coming back at the next work chapter moment.

    I can't recommend Bethany highly enough, coaching can feel daunting but with Bethany, it's a breeze - Thank you.

    Louise Barth
    Interim Director of Fundraising, St John Ambulance

About Awen Coaching

Founded in 2020, Awen Coaching has now supported over 60 individuals, across 45 organisations, through 500+ hours of coaching and facilitation.

Through effective coaching and training, charity people overcome burnout, improve team resilience, and formulate clear, mission-aligned objectives, and strategic growth plans.

By working with me, leadership skills are enhanced, work-life balance is redesigned, and self-awareness grows. Ultimately, the result is a more resilient, motivated, and efficient organisation, ready to make a sustainable impact in the charity sector whilst prioritising the well-being and development of people who make it all possible.

Are you ready?

Book a 30-minute call to discuss how my Team Development Programmes can help your organisation overcome burnout, and build resilient productive teams, ensuring a more sustainable impact.