Build Influence and Presence

Coaching Training for Communication Professionals

Be valued as a strategic partner, not a tactical function

Become a thinking partner

This course will help you develop your confidence and presence, enabling you to move from a tactical to a more strategic relationship with your clients.

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Grow from the inside out

You'll learn how to listen actively, ask great questions, and provide support and challenge to your clients. By staying present and giving balanced feedback, you'll be able to challenge effectively and help the leaders you work with flourish.

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Module 1: Your Role and Your Relationships

When: Friday 7th March 2025

Start: 08:30 UK/ 09:30 CET

Ends: 12:00 UK/ 13:00

Where: ONLINE ZOOM

Module 2: Thinking Space and

Module 3: Coaching Above and Below the Surface

When: Friday 14th March 2025

Start: 09:00 UK/ 10:00 CET

Ends: 16:30 UK/ 17:30 CET

Where: ONLINE ZOOM

Week 4: Changing the Game

When: Friday 21st March 2025

Start: 08:30 UK/ 09:30 CET

Ends: 12:00 UK/ 13:00

Where: ONLINE ZOOM

Price £1499

(Around €1800.00)

COHORT 6: Face to face
The Hague, NL

2nd and 3rd October 2025

IN PERSON COURSE

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Price €1,800.00+ VAT

(Around £1499.00 +VAT)

Price

€1,200.00+ VAT

(Around £999.00 +VAT)

COHORT 5: Face to face Birmingham, UK.

10th and 11th September 2025

IN PERSON COURSE

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IN PERSON COURSE 〰️

Do you need to influence and build presence?

YES! PR and Communications Professionals, the world of work calls us to evolve.

Technology like AI, changing climate and political landscapes mean that we need to develop the skills that help us to bring strategic value to the organisations we work for. A skills upgrade is due. Here are some of the reasons why coaching skills are essential for us to move from tactical to strategic, advisor to partner and do it with confidence.

Build your presence and confidence

Whether we have the seat at the table or not, how we show up matters. When you are present and clear in your intentions, you can be more confident to coach leaders to think and make better decisions, that also helps us to do our job better.

Uncover the values and motivations that drive our leaders decisions and be a thinking partner to design communications from a deeper level of partnering.

Enter into conversations with confidence and presence.

Move from tactical to a more strategic relationship

You might be a great writer, you can craft a strategic communication plan, you can see the outcomes that your business needs and the outcome that great communication can achieve. Often we continue to give our great advice, but it falls on deaf ears, your business leader wants you to make their slides “pretty’’.

But maybe we need to stop advising and start coaching. Lead with questions, not advice.

  • "A great course, a safe space, an active group, and a wonderful instructor. Thank you for all the love and care you've clearly put into this. I found it very inspiring for my work!"

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • "Coaching for PR and Comms Professionals provides practical tools that you can use in a range of everyday situations, all underpinned by the relevant theory."

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • "I enjoyed working with Chaya and valued her insights, energy, and collaboration. She improved communication effectiveness through simplicity, audience awareness, and commitment to purpose. Chaya can be counted on as a trusted professional partner in leading change"

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • “Thank you for taking me on this journey beyond the day-to-day tasks of communication. I learned so many skills for working more effectively with colleagues and leaders. I loved getting to know myself better, and filling my toolbox with practical and positive tools. Highly recommended!”

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

  • "Chaya designed a half-day masterclass on Coaching Skills for Comms Pros for my team of 10, all of whom are experienced Comms Pros advising their own management teams. One of the main issues we face is moving from a tactical role to a more advisory role and encouraging leaders to take a more strategic view of their communications. Chaya’s course covered several coaching models including the MBS Coaching Model, how to coach ‘below the surface’, and extremely useful tips to change the conversation with leaders. We were immediately able to put these tools to good use in our roles and left the course with new information to help us work better with leaders.”

    IN HOUSE TRAINING CLIENT

  • "I was considering undertaking my coaching qualification before I signed up for Chaya's course, but this was exactly what I was looking for - relating coaching skills to my PR practice. I learnt so much - about myself, as well as coaching! - and met some brilliant people. As a result of this course I am shifting my business model to a more strategic level, to provide better counsel to leaders and increase the impact my PR pactice delivers for their business."

    TRAINING PARTICIPANT

Learning Outcomes

Here's what we will aim to achieve:

  • Learn about your self and your style, practice how to reflect and learn to help you identify areas for improvement and enhance your strengths. Knowing yourself better, creates more space for the stakeholders you with coach.

  • You'll develop your listening skills and presence, learning about the power of asking great questions and practicing using simple coaching models. By creating a coaching space, you'll be able to establish trust and rapport with your clients and help them achieve their goals.

  • Learn communication coaching techniques to coach senior leaders in the effective use of storytelling, conversation, and listening. You'll also learn how to support exploration of their values, motivations, and beliefs, helping them to become more confident and competent communicators.

  • You'll understand how to coach behaviours and habits, both seen and unseen, to enable change and influence. You'll learn how to support leaders to develop their skills in storytelling, conversation, and listening, enabling them to explore their values, motivations, and beliefs.

  • You'll learn how to be more present and develop your own sense of executive presence. Using your authentic style of engagement you can be more strategic, influence and partner effectively.

  • By the end of our course, you'll be able to provide feedback, challenge, and coaching to support your leaders to grow and become more effective communicators. You'll also develop your own leadership style, allowing you to partner with your senior leaders in a strategic and authentic way.

More information about Coaching Skills for Comms Professionals

Module 1: Your Role and Your Relationships

We start by exploring the role of a coach and your relationship with your stakeholders. You'll gain insights into different leading and coaching styles and discover which style works best for you in different situations. We learn what coaching really means and how it differs from mentoring, consulting, and therapy. You'll learn how to listen actively, build rapport, and create a safe space for your stakeholders to share the thoughts and feelings that drive their actions.

Module 2: Thinking Space

In this session, we'll take a deeper focus on creating thinking space for your stakeholders. You'll learn how to ask powerful questions that provoke thought and encourage reflection. We'll also explore the importance of presence in coaching and how to create a supportive environment for your stakeholders. We'll introduce you to a couple of models of coaching that you can use to structure your coaching sessions and help your stakeholders achieve their goals.

  • This is a skill building course so you will learn some theory, but most importantly, we want you to put those coaching skills into practice. The course is run in small groups and we will spend time in discussion and reflection so that you can have the chance to reflect and apply the content to your own working relationships and practice in a safe environment.

    Every 3.5 hour module is an interactive and engaging training workshop, designed to help you learn and use the coaching skills that take you from being a great communications professional to a leader with presence and influence in your profession.

    We will learn from each other through discussion and explore different approaches to coaching.

  • This course is for you if you are a communication professional looking to take your skills to the next level.

    Especially if you find yourself in demanding tactical conversations when you know in your professional experience that a more strategic approach and relationship is better.

    The course is designed for PR and Communication professionals at any point in your career if you work with senior leaders and stakeholders. If you are looking to develop as a leader, build and use coaching skills and grow a more strategic and trust based relationship with your stakeholders.

Module 3: Coaching Above and Below the Surface

In this session, we'll look at how coaching can support leaders in building their storytelling, conversation, and listening skills. You'll learn how to help your stakeholder uncover their values, intentions, motivations, and limiting beliefs, which can have a profound impact on their leadership style. We'll also explore the concept of coaching above and below the surface and how to support your stakeholders in creating lasting change.

Module 4: Changing the Game

In this final session, we'll focus on feedback, both giving and receiving. You'll learn how to provide constructive feedback that helps your stakeholders grow and develop. We'll also explore the coaching style of leadership and how you can use your coaching skills to become a more effective strategic partner for your stakeholders. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools and techniques you need to take your coaching skills to the next level and become a trusted advisor and coach to the leaders you work with.

Chartered institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Members

You can make it count. This course has been awarded 20 CDP points.
You will receive a certificate at the end of the course.

Meet your trainers Chaya Mistry and Emma Duke

Chaya is a Chartered PR Practitioner with 20+ years experience, 13 years of those years, in the energy industry. She works with brilliant minds who need support on softer/human skills mostly in STEM industries. Her experience spans; sustainability, energy, engineering, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, luxury brands and hospitality.

She started to train leaders in communication skills in 2010 and blended this into support and noticed the strategic shift in her work, richer relationships and effective outcomes from coaching.

She founded Humanly in 2019, where she help clients to do the inner work, so they can make outer change happen.

She is a trainer for the CIPR and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

Chaya lives by the beach in The Hague, is a self-confessed book addict and likes to do yoga and CrossFit, and dips in the North sea.

Emma is a Chartered PR Fellow, trainer, mentor and qualified coach.

With 20 years PR experience, Emma has worked with leaders to develop their confidence, facilitate strategy development and create the right opportunities and messages to develop better relationships with employees and external stakeholders.

Having since qualified as an ICF Coach, she’s using her skills to support leaders in coming up with their own answers, making difficult decisions, but ultimately leading their people and organisations to grow and make a difference.

Emma lives in Oxford, runs her strategic PR and Coaching business and gets out for wild swims when she can.

Bespoke In-House Courses

We also run in-house course for your communication team

It is more practical and economical for our clients, read more benefits of an in-house course:

  • Build skills and competencies across your communication /PR organisation and have common intentions and language as a team.

  • Discuss real life triggers and challenges.

  • Be there for each other through peer support and accountability partnerships.

  • Enable the function to mature and develop more consistently strategically as a whole.

  • Maintain individual growth and development by creating a coaching culture in the team.

  • Upgrade the emotional intelligence of the team as a whole and build psychological safety as a team.

  • "Chaya has a wealth of experience and was able to listen to our issues as well as answer our questions. The course itself was an engaging mix of listening, sharing and breakout work. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who would like to move from a more tactical to strategic space in their role." — Bonnie Khan, Communications and Engagement Lead, Shell IT Services and Operations.

    Bonnie Khan, Communications and Engagement Lead, Shell IT Services and Operations.

  • "I was considering undertaking my coaching qualification before I signed up for Chaya's course, but this was exactly what I was looking for relating coaching skills to my PR practice. I learnt so much about myself, as well as coaching! And met some brilliant people. As a result of this course I am shifting my business model to a more strategic level, to provide better counsel to leaders and increase the impact my PR practice delivers for their business."

    Emma Duke, Strategic PR Consultant

  • “Thank you for taking me on this journey beyond the day-to-day tasks of communication. I learned so many skills for working more effectively with colleagues and leaders. I loved getting to know myself better, and filling my toolbox with practical and positive tools. Highly recommended!”

    Friedel Grant, Senior Internal Communications Advisor

  • “A great course, a safe space, an active group, and a wonderful instructor. Thank you for all the love and care you've clearly put into this. I found it very inspiring for my work!”

    Anonymous

  • “Chaya's Coaching for PR and Comms Professionals provides practical tools that you can use in a range of everyday situations, all underpinned by the relevant theory.”

    Dan Holden, Communication Consultant, Coach and Mentor