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21/5/2019

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Is your ADI training provider ORDIT registered? They should be!

20/5/2019

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At the beginning of April, ORDIT (the Official Register of Driving Instructor Trainers) changed to be in line with the Standards Check and Part 3 assessment criteria.
  • If you are already an ADI Trainer or you wish to move into this area, you must be a Grade A instructor.
  • If you are currently on the ORDIT register and are a Grade B instructor, you must pass your next ORDIT inspection with a Grade A.
  • If you are a Grade B instructor and wish to join the ORDIT Register, you must first pass your next Standards Check with a Grade A, in order to apply to join the ORDIT Register - and must then pass your inspection with a Grade A.
At Tri-Coaching we understand how important it is to be properly prepared to be a trainer of driving instructors and join the ORDIT Register. This is why we offer a one-day course that covers the different Roles involved in the lifetime of a driver - in line with the DVSA National Driver and Rider Training Standard; the requirements and procedures for ORDIT; and the marking sheet.
Tri-Coaching is an ORDIT registered training organisation, believing in the importance of having highly skilled trainers, competent in training and developing new and existing driving instructors, so that they can go onto:
  • run a successful business,
  • charge the lesson prices they are worth,
  • grow in confidence,
  • and gain a great work-life balance.
Our next course runs on 17th July 2019 at the Aurora Hotel, Crawley, Gatwick. The cost is £198 including VAT. Lunch and refreshments are provided, and you will take away with you training materials and a CPD certificate, detailing the competences covered on the course.
Other dates, all running at the same location in Gatwick, are:
17th October 2019
17th January 2020
We look forward to seeing you there.
**If you haven't done any instructor training before but would like to diversify into this area, you might like to consider one of our Train the Trainer courses first.
Kind regards
The Tri-Coaching Team
Please feel free to pass this on to your friends and colleagues.
Many thanks from the Tri-Coaching Team
TCP Office: 0800 058 8009
Info@tri-coachingpartnership.co.uk





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3 Free Podcasts on the Goals for Driver Education

14/5/2019

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‘The meaning of life is to find your gift; the purpose of life is to give it away.’ Pablo Picasso.
This email has been inspired by a driving instructor, who used the information we send out in emails to help him pass his Standards Check; and wrote to us to thank us. We love receiving feedback like this because we want to be able to help all ADIs if they feel they need it.
There has been so much talk about the Goals for Driver Education (GDE) over the past decade .... and also so much confusion. We want to help make the GDE an easier to understand concept because we believe it is essential to creating great driving lessons and great drivers. If you follow the links below, you will be able to watch and listen to three webinars that will take you through the GDE and ease your way into addressing it in your driving lessons. Click on the links in bold to download.
GDE - an overview
GDE and self-evaluation
GDE and raising self-awareness
If you know of any ADI friends, who would benefit from this information, please forward this email to them as well.
Thank you for taking the time out to read our emails and staying connected. We are committed to Road Safety and work hard developing ADIs so that the standards in the industry continue to improve.
(If listening isn't your thing then just pop over to our website and, as they say in the papers 'read all about it' - the GDE, that is.)
Have a great weekend from the team at Tri-Coaching Partnership.
Please feel free to pass this email on to your friends and colleagues.
Many thanks from the Tri-Coaching Team
TCP Office: 0800 058 8009
Info@tri-coachingpartnership.co.uk



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Lucky?

8/5/2019

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As driving instructors we do the everyday tasks that keep our head above water, or some of us may not even do those. You know the tasks, keep the car clean and tidy, put some fuel in the car, planning our diary etc..
So what do we do about luck? You may know some of the sayings used by the golfer Gary Player in retorts to journalists that called him lucky he said :

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."
"I've travelled more than any human being who's ever lived."
"As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer."
"You must work very hard to become a natural golfer."
“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”

So how do you apply that to your business? Are you so busy that the opportunity to develop yourself, your skills, your business just pass you by as you chase that ever disappearing pound down the road? You can get so wrapped up in the pursuit of your daily goals you can easily miss the unexpected and wonderful possibilities that could be just around the corner for you.
So how do you become lucky? Apparently it is really the result of perceptions, personality traits, choices and actions. Those who are open and receptive to new experiences and are curious to find out more with a willingness to experiment are far luckier than those who are naturally cautious. Psychologist Richard Wiseman believes that no more than 10% of life is the result of pure chance but it is how you respond that is the key. The key to luck is to surround yourself with positive people and network in new circles. Look around for opportunities that suddenly appear especially those that give you a chance to be creative. You must think of yourself as lucky, lucky people continue to strive and engage in new ways, especially those that can be a source of inspiration.I could be easily talking about how lucky some of the ADI's who have undertaken the BTEC Level 4 Professional Award in Coaching for Driver Development have become.I was reading some research by Matthew Smith a psychologist at Buckinghamshire University whose research into luck suggests these 5 approaches will help you.
  1. Embrace the idea of luck and how this email has arrived just at the right time for you to engage in the next step of your career.
  2. Having a lucky mindset and that being confident and proactive influence our behaviour, expectations and actions.
  3. Be open to the opportunity, take risks that give you better possibilities.
  4. Go with the flow, take the decision to step off your current path and let life surprise you.
  5. Reframe anything, remember that things could be worse and consider even if life is not perfect, perhaps it is better than it could of been.
In the words of Clint Eastwood are you feeling lucky? Then jump right in and sign up for a course that could change everything that you are currently doing and bring opportunity to your door. Just have a look at some of the reviews below and then if your feeling lucky sign up with our guarantee if you don't like the course on day one we will give you your money back. You can make small weekly payments of just £30 and you get this amazing chance to improve your luck,

Click here for BTEC 4 dates, locations and purchaseA few of the course reviews
Completed my BTEC 4 in coaching several years ago, the best CPD investment I’ve ever made ! It changed everything for the better. Graham Hooper & Susan McCormack deliver every time.
Kevin Graham
Took my training to an other level. Gave me the confidence to become the best trainer I could. Offered ongoing support and guidance. The BTEC 4 was the best thing I ever did. Would highly recommend any instructor to go on a Tri-Coaching journey of personal development.
Ray Seagrave
I very much enjoyed working on the Btec 4 with Susan and Graham. Their delivery was interesting, the assignments absolutely on point with developing myself and my learners. No death by power point moments, and no numb bum at all. There was always plenty of support, laughter, new friends, and plenty of delicious food on hand too! I was nervous about the in car training, but Fiona and Kevin made it relaxed and enjoyable. By far the best training I've been on as a driving instructor. Time for other training bodies in this industry to wake up to how it should be done! The monthly payments absolutely worked for me, otherwise I probably wouldn't have taken the course. Many thanks to you all.
Helen Dascalescu
I tried to remember how it all began..... a hazy memory of a vague conversation with Graham Hooper, where I made every excuse why not to sign up for the course. My main concern was that I was not clever enough, it seemed like a marathon, a massive task. Did I really want to invest that much in myself? Well all the answers came back as No.... How then did I find myself signing up for the BTEC 4? In 2011, I signed on the dotted line and never looked back. For me, it was not an easy ride, blood, sweat and tears went into many an assignment. One of The Team were always there with words of encouragement and continue to support up to this day. I have gone on to do other courses, including Train the Trainer, which is very enlightening in its own right. Running my own Standards Check workshops for other adis, I never, ever thought I would be doing that. Going from a Grade 4 instructor to a Grade A coach was such a massive achievement for me, it gave me so much confidence and a voice, putting me in a great position to share my knowledge to help others. Two ADIs who asked ME for Standards Check support went on to achieve 51/51! How amazing is that? Tri-Coaching is a great company, with people that care and are doing their best to change our industry for the better. Their dream is coming true... long may it continue. Thank you Linda
Linda Javalin
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Many thanks from the Tri-Coaching Team
TCP Office: 0800 058 8009
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Coaching or Controversial

7/5/2019

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If you teach Pull-Push steering then you do not coach nor do you have a client-centred approach. Before you jump up and down at the fact that I have dared to raise the steering debate, please let me take a moment to explain, Coaching is about Choice, Consequences and Responsibility. If you tell your pupils how to steer:
  1. You deny them the opportunity to make a Choice,
  2. They are unable to experience and discuss the Consequences of their Choice,
  3. They do not experience taking Responsibility for the driving task.
Practising making choices and decisions is really important and reduces the risk of being involved in a road crash. Making choices and experiencing the consequences of those choices is how we all survive as human beings. When we make a poor choice and experience negative consequences then we can choose to adapt our behaviour in order to experience positive consequences. This is all about us taking responsibility and is as critical to the whole of our lives as it is to driving. The whole point of adopting a client-centred approach and coaching our driving customers is to improve road safety by preventing the appalling slaughter of young people (men, in particular) on our roads.
I have mused before about crash helmets and the idea that if we all were forced to wear these as drivers then we would be much more likely to survive a serious crash. But coaching is about preventing the likelihood of a serious crash occurring in the first place rather than looking at minimising the tragedy of it once it has already occurred. It has to be more effective to coach people how to make choices, consider consequences and take responsibility for their actions and decisions, than to insist that everyone wears crash helmets.
Individual differences in human beings means that a ‘one size fits all’ approach will not work. We know that one fifth of newly qualified drivers will be involved in a serious crash once they pass their driving test. Could this be partly down to the fact that they have been taught to drive in a way that does not suit them? Could this one fifth of people be the same people who struggle at school (or, indeed, excel) because they fall into the extremes and a ‘one size fits all’ approach is also being used in the classroom? People learn best when their learning preferences are taken into account and appropriate communication techniques are used to address these preferences. They also learn best when they are treated non-judgementally, neutrally and equally. What they learn is that:
  1. Their thoughts and feelings influence their behaviour;
  2. They have choices to make every time they are out driving;
  3. There are consequences to the decisions they take;
  4. They need to be aware of their strengths, limitations and development needs in order to remain safe as drivers;
  5. Their emotional state will affect the way they drive;
  6. They are statistically at greater risk of being involved in a crash because of their inexperience, age (17 to 25 years old) and gender (if male).
If instructors tell their customers what to do, rather than giving them the choice, they are only using one style of teaching and are not giving value for money or ensuring that learning takes place. They may be overlooking the one fifth of learners, who are most at risk of being involved in a life-threatening collision when driving unsupervised. They are not addressing any of the above six points which relate to the higher levels of the Goals for Driver Education matrix.
Coaching could reduce the number of casualties on the roads because it is a client-centred approach that focuses on Choice, Consequences and Responsibility. Telling will maintain the status quo. And steering is just one example of how easy it can be to keep the responsibility for the learning process with the learner, where it belongs.

Kind regards

Susan McCormack

sue@tri-coachingpartnership.co.uk
07860930135 - Mobile | 0800 058 8009 - Tcp office
www.tri-coachingpartnership.com
Tri-Coaching Partnership Ltd 6 Pearmain Way Ashford, Kent TN235JL United Kingdom 0800 058 8009

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