Felicity Gasparro, FOUNDER of Oyster Outcomes and SUMS Associate Consultant discusses current insights into higher education coaching following an extensive and successful coaching assignment with a high-profile red-brick university. The key takeaways of this study include – Coaching has grown in popularity across UK universities and may be delivered through the People (HR) function;...
Oyster Outcomes has succeeded in securing a grant from the ESFA / Groundwork Home – Groundwork), which enables our team to attract 25 people seeking employment from a wide range of backgrounds, who will receive expert coaching and training from our expert Associates – FOR FREE. Candidates must live in the Thames Valley Region, and provide...
In this month’s monthly spotlight we are introducing Mark Ames who is one of our associates who specialises in leadership coaching and mentoring. Mark worked for 35 years in further and higher education, initially as a teacher and then leading student support services. He now works as a leadership coach and mentor with middle and...
We are so pleased to announce #oysteroutcomes is developing its offering in Mental Health Consulting Services, and we are proud to be offering both open and exclusive @i-act for positive mental health and wellbeing from 7 April. But we thought you would be interested to know more about our lead partner and Associate, Diane Gibbons,...
Many people dread January. It’s a dark, cold month, with the excitement of seasonal celebrations behind us, the month can feel like a sharp jolt back to reality. And this year, we face a reality with more uncertainty, as the CV-19 pandemic continues, and the UK ‘Brexit-s’ Europe. With many people across the world living...
1 in 10 young people will experience a mental health issues* (Heads Together) and we know from Mind’s research into the mental health of the population during the first lockdown, 68% of young people said their mental health had worsened during that period. More than 80,000 children are suffering with depression…. The statistics go on,...
Only the very eagle-eyed amongst our followers and supporters will have noticed we have added the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Wellbeing Charter logo to our affiliates. Why is such a small change blog-worthy? Oyster Outcomes is a member of The Chamber, and as such is able to align itself with the Charter and its...
Andy Elwood, one of our talented Mental Health First Aid Instructors, has this year secured the important role of Ambassador for #Movember – a leading charity changing the face of men’s health on a global scale, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Andy’s pioneering approach to getting the topic...
We’re really proud to be featured in the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group newsround, which talks about the work we did in the run up to #WorldMentalHealthDay2020 and the #DoOneThing campaign. This included the children’s yoga session which was provided by Fotine Staddon of Fotini Wellbeing. https://www.thamesvalleychamber.co.uk/do-one-thing/
We teamed up with The Brand Education and Carnival Content to take part in one of a series of podcasts themed around Disrupting the Degree – exploring the impact the events of this year have had on Higher Education. Listen in by connecting to the news story on our LinkedIn page below. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6727550381338963968/