Coaching for Parents: Supporting young people to SUCCEED

By Pam Richardson

This book guides parents to help young people learn how to self-coach using the SUCCEED model. Young people gain:
✓ A STRONG SENSE OF SELF
✓ FEEL GROUNDED
✓ LEARN HOW TO USE SOUND JUDGMENT
✓ MAKE POSITIVE CHOICES IN THEIR LIVES
“Pam is truly inspirational. Her knowledge and experience in understanding, coaching and motivating young people is second to none. I found her to be totally committed to developing, supporting and delivering short and long-term strategies for young people to succeed and reach their potential.
Pam shares her unequivocal passionate belief in the unlimited belief of young people to achieve in her delivery of training and I have the privilege to continue this work with the on-going support of Pam in the school I am employed in.”
Brandon Morgan
Head of Year 8 & 9
Pam’s non-directive approach to coaching and mentoring encourages and supports young people to believe in themselves and to succeed.
Original front cover artwork by Verity Slaughter-Penney – [e-mail]
Visit www.succeedmentoring.com [http://www.succeedmentoring.com/]

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Apr 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781398402454

Pam Richardson

Pam Richardson is an internationally acclaimed coach/mentor, educator and author. She now brings her wealth of knowledge and experience to her work with young people as Director of SUCCEED Mentoring Ltd – Believing in Young People. Her passionate belief in the unlimited potential of young people to achieve has inspired the ‘7 Steps to SUCCEED – the Young Person’s Guide to Self-Coaching’ and this book to support parents to coach their children to live happy and fulfilling lives.

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About the Author

Pam Richardson is an internationally acclaimed coach/mentor, educator and author. She now brings her wealth of knowledge and experience to her work with young people as Director of SUCCEED Mentoring Ltd – Believing in Young People.

Her passionate belief in the unlimited potential of young people to achieve has inspired the ‘7 Steps to SUCCEED – the Young Person’s Guide to Self-Coaching’ and this book to support parents to coach their children to live happy and fulfilling lives.

Pam Richardson

Coaching for Parents

Supporting Young People to SUCCEED

Copyright © Pam Richardson (2021)

The right of Pam Richardson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781398402447 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398402454 (ePub e-book)

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First Published (2021)

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Acknowledgements

A decade ago, I was invited to write and deliver a programme to train ex-military personnel as mentors for young people in schools. I could not have envisaged then where this vision would lead. I would like to thank all the wonderful people with whom I have had the privilege to work through this programme. Many young people have been encouraged and supported to feel grounded and to gain a strong sense of self by engaging with our ex-military mentors.

However, I have come to realise that it is equally important that parents and carers have the opportunity to understand how young people can be encouraged to learn how to self-coach – a skill for life. Hence this book, Coaching for Parents – Supporting young people to SUCCEED.

Thank you to John, my husband, for his constant support and who works with me in SUCCEED Mentoring Ltd– Believing in Young People.

Thank you to Verity Slaughter-Penney at Art by VSP for bringing her considerable artistic talent to interpret the book cover. I love working with you.

Introduction

Every year of a young person’s life is an important step on their path to becoming a valued and valuable member of society. Every step they take can help them feel happy and fulfilled.

Modern-day life can present all sorts of challenges that young people have to cope with whilst they also try to get a relevant education. Surveys in 2018 have indicated that:

85% of all jobs that today’s students will be doing in 2030s do not exist yet! (Dell)

Of 350 careers, 160 are in decline. (Deloitte)

1/3rd of jobs at high risk of automation by early 2030s. (Price Waterhouse Cooper)

So what can be done to help young people to achieve despite the challenges that they may face? Coaching has for a long time been seen as a way of helping people to fulfil their potential. However, how does coaching fit with the natural role of mentor as a parent?

Historically the word mentor originates from Greek mythology. Homer’s Odyssey relates the story of King Odysseus, who on leaving to go to war, entrusted his son Telemachus to the care of his friend and advisor, Mentor. Mentor’s job was not merely to raise Telemachus, but also to prepare him for the responsibilities he was to assume in his lifetime. The passing on of tradition, family values etc. is, therefore, a natural part of parenting.

The world is changing at an ever-increasing rate. One thing is certain that young people will need to be:

Optimistic

Adaptable

Resilient

Which means that they need to:

Work it out for themselves:

Be prepared to fail!

Take risks.

Have another go!

Be