Health Coaching skills for the Workplace

We offer an original and new approach to health and wellbeing.

We bring you the opportunity to build health coaching skills directly into your teams, so you can offer a new kind of support for your staff and take advantage of a health coaching mindset throughout your organisation.

We know that workplace presenteeism and absenteeism is a huge issue in the UK. People coming to work feeling unwell, and underperforming is costing an average of 50 lost days of productivity/ worker/ year[1], and days lost to sickness is at a record high with average 9 days/ year.[2]

We also know that the biggest barrier to supporting staff health and wellbeing is managers feeling they don’t have the right skills or confidence to have the most helpful conversations[3]

Most other health and wellbeing training is aimed at helping people when they are already sick or unwell, whilst health coaching can help with that, it’s main power is building habits that keep people well, it’s prevention.

What is Health Coaching?

“Health and Wellness Coaching is a client-led, collaborative process that aims to promote self-management, self-empowerment and equip an individual to adapt positively to their internal and external environment to create a state of resilience through the pursuit of activities and a lifestyle that cultivates their whole-health continuum."[4]

We simply say – “health coaching is a set of skills and approaches that helps people to think and act well for themselves in pursuit of  a healthy and happy life”

The offer

We offer a full accredited 4-day online Intermediate Certificate in Health Coaching training course, with follow up supervision and implementation support for each trainee. It involves 40 hours of structured learning. For more details on the course see our website here

We have successfully delivered this training to 1000’s of staff working in the NHS and Workplaces over the last 9 years. We know it works to super boost capability and confidence to have impactful conversations to support people to look after themselves better.

We also know that for those learning and applying these health coaching skills in workplaces, it recharges their own career. Almost 80% of graduates from this course said they found their work more meaningful after training[5]

Who is this course for:

Any of your staff who are in a position to have health boosting conversations with other staff. It could be HR teams, line managers, or any employee with an interest in health and wellbeing. Often those with personal lived experience of illness are most effective. It can be used as a way of re-engaging staff who may be burnt out or struggling themselves, where you want to retain their skills and presence in the workplace.

What will course attendees gain?

Skills, knowledge and confidence to have a structured and tailored health coaching conversation with colleagues, friends or family. They will know how to help people think well about their health and take positive steps to look after themselves.

What will the business gain?

Having this internal capability will allow your organisation to offer proactive and preventative support for all your staff. Enabling these conversations (which can be formal or informal) catalyses staff to pursue new ideas and goals around their own health and wellbeing. It demonstrates a culture of care and compassion, and most importantly it improves productivity and reduces staff sickness and turnover. Ultimately it improves profitability by strengthening your greatest asset, your people.

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[1] https://www.vitality.co.uk/business/healthiest-workplace/

[2] https://www.cipd.org/globalassets/media/knowledge/knowledge-hub/reports/2025-pdfs/8920-Health-and-wellbeing-report-2025-/

[3] https://www.cipd.org/globalassets/media/knowledge/knowledge-hub/reports/2023-pdfs/8436-health-and-wellbeing-report-2023.pdf

[4] https://www.ukihca.com/what-is-a-health-coach

[5] Peak Health Coaching trainee survey 2025, 174 respondents