Workplace Coach

[TeeferTiger]

No doubt there are good coaches out there

OK, I'll let you off

[dvbuk55]

Don't let him off April, he was obviously having a dig at you and your fellow workplace coaches - a valuable asset in my humble opinion

If a workplace coach is not available do they wait until they are, or does the training go ahead anyway........................no it didn't need a response I really knew the answer

What would have been more sensible?...............paying a training allowance when training.

[clashcityrocker]

If there is no workplace coach available they should source a coach from a nearby office
or they should pay an experienced person a training allowance to do the training.

On a slightly separate note: for all those hoping for EVR you better make sure you don't have any vacancies in your office.
If you get a newstart (and they are rarer than hen's teeth at the moment) you need to look after them. They might be the key to your VR.

[TeeferTiger]

Don't let him off April, he was obviously having a dig at you and your fellow workplace coaches - a valuable asset in my humble opinion

If a workplace coach is not available do they wait until they are, or does the training go ahead anyway........................no it didn't need a response I really knew the answer

What would have been more sensible?...............paying a training allowance when training.

I thought they did pay? Sorry, I mean, I thought they were MEANT to pay? I don't know every round in any of the offices I've worked in so after a couple of days of them stuck with me (poor buggers), I have to pair them up with a reserve or walk holder to learn the actual round and bagging off. From what I remember reading somewhere, I thought there was a training allowance to be paid to said reserve or walk holder?

[taurus88]

My workplace coach told me not a lot. I'm still learning things three months on. People in the office are turning around and instructing me on on how to do certain things (usually the jumping through hoops kind of rubbish; d2d sheets, elements of the signed for sheets that I was unaware of, etc.) because no-one ever bothered to show me. I don't know how they expect you to learn when you basically go out and watch a guy do his job for two days. I don't think I've had any instruction from my 'coach' since I was out on my own, and I certainly haven't had any meetings. In fact, I got a questionnaire through the post after about 4 weeks in the job, intimating that I would be sitting down with my DOM to discuss how I was getting on (as is supposedly policy with new-starts) whilst referring to the answers I gave in said questionnaire.

Didn't happen. I've basically been on my own since day 4 in the job. Not that I mind, it just shouldn't surprise people if I don't know a great deal about some things.

[bedfordrl]

Our work place coach is bloody marvellous.



Hi colin!

[martini]

Have to say this is an expensive PR stunt gone wrong.
No doubt there are good coaches out there but ffs how many times do they actually coach,and what's all this 'whatever the DOM asks me to do' bollox.(Was mentioned in another thread somewhere)
You're coaches not DOM 's lackeys ffs.

Waste of money.

Sorry Coaches.

My first post to the forum so sorry for my opinion. However there seems to be a lot of negatives with this subject. Also a lot of people seem to think that the £30 a week pay is not earned. I can assure that they do earn there money as in our office the Coach is also the PDA champion and spends a lot of her time getting the PDA's to work, sending back the faulty ones etc. Also it is not always possible for the coach to teach a new starter Rural rounds as they do not know all of them. Who did the teaching before there was a coach? Also I understand that everybody had a chance to go for the job so perhaps you should ask for your coach to be changed if you think they are ineffective and go for the job yourself. Our coach will always help any staff in the office those who have just started and those that have been there along time. £30 per week is only £6.00 per day and that's less that an 1 hours pay. Waste of money, PR stunt, I don't think so.

If you think that £30 is too much what about those that still get early start allowances of £60 plus a week and they start at 06:15 that's a bit naff, double the allowance and what do they do for that!!

[floydy]

Have to say this is an expensive PR stunt gone wrong.
No doubt there are good coaches out there but ffs how many times do they actually coach,and what's all this 'whatever the DOM asks me to do' bollox.(Was mentioned in another thread somewhere)
You're coaches not DOM 's lackeys ffs.

Waste of money.

Sorry Coaches.

My first post to the forum so sorry for my opinion. However there seems to be a lot of negatives with this subject. Also a lot of people seem to think that the £30 a week pay is not earned. I can assure that they do earn there money as in our office the Coach is also the PDA champion and spends a lot of her time getting the PDA's to work, sending back the faulty ones etc. Also it is not always possible for the coach to teach a new starter Rural rounds as they do not know all of them. Who did the teaching before there was a coach? Also I understand that everybody had a chance to go for the job so perhaps you should ask for your coach to be changed if you think they are ineffective and go for the job yourself. Our coach will always help any staff in the office those who have just started and those that have been there along time. £30 per week is only £6.00 per day and that's less that an 1 hours pay. Waste of money, PR stunt, I don't think so.

If you think that £30 is too much what about those that still get early start allowances of £60 plus a week and they start at 06:15 that's a bit naff, double the allowance and what do they do for that!!

Yes but not all coaches have the amazing attitude yours obviously has, and by looking at this thread it seems like most of them are the same...

Can you out them with a vote of no confidence

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Can you out them with a vote of no confidence

No

Its a position filled usually by application and by Royal Mail not the Union so no vote.

[dvbuk55]

PDA Champion? I deal with the PDAs, I get them to work, I manage the asset list, I hand them out and record their usage, send em back and re-issue them and they don't pay me £30 quid a week - so tomorrow I'll be handing them over to our workplace PDA Coach Champion who does get £30 a week and well deserved I might add

[floydy]

Can you out them with a vote of no confidence

No

Its a position filled usually by application and by Royal Mail not the Union so no vote.

Shame...BOOooooooo

[DGP1]

Our work place coach is bloody marvellous.



Hi colin!

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[DGP1]

PDA Champion? I deal with the PDAs, I get them to work, I manage the asset list, I hand them out and record their usage, send em back and re-issue them and they don't pay me £30 quid a week - so tomorrow I'll be handing them over to our workplace PDA Coach Champion who does get £30 a week and well deserved I might add

Same here dvb, everyone just hands them to me to fix but not now, it'll be coaches job from now on (and they can do all the training that they're supposed to do).

The coach position in my office is just for the manager wannabe to keep him sweet.

[dvbuk55]

PDA Champion? I deal with the PDAs, I get them to work, I manage the asset list, I hand them out and record their usage, send em back and re-issue them and they don't pay me £30 quid a week - so tomorrow I'll be handing them over to our workplace PDA Coach Champion who does get £30 a week and well deserved I might add

Same here dvb, everyone just hands them to me to fix but not now, it'll be coaches job from now on (and they can do all the training that they're supposed to do).

The coach position in my office is just for the manager wannabe to keep him sweet.

Mind you DGP they do come in handy, because I switch the gps on and it tells me where I am in relation to a toilet

[floydy]

Can you out them with a vote of no confidence

No

Its a position filled usually by application and by Royal Mail not the Union so no vote.

what if the dom's not happy with their performance/ability?
for instance our doesnt even know the IPS so never goes on it, he got the role by being up a previous doms harris