Training activities develop the potential capacity to act, coaching takes this potential capacity and sets it into action.  This project will create a network of professional coaches to follow up development training projects, and make the training stick. Coaching takes place face-to-face, by phone, internet voip, email or even mobile phone and sms.   

 This project would:  * set up and coordinate a data-base of coaches, by language and area of expertise, * inform development programs about the potential of add-on coaching to training to bring results, * promote add-on coaching to development training projects, * match coaches with in-coming requests by development training projects, * coordinate, oversee, get feedback, report back to head offices on the process and results achieved.

Group or individual coaching sessions via internet technology together with brief interventions via mobile phones to help people be accountable to their plans, enthuse and support as they work towards goals and explore just-in-time solutions to current obstacles.  Coaching is not a great conversation nor training, mentoring or advising, but a specific methodology that supports and empowers behavioral change.  Applying new knowledge and skills requires changes in behavior, and changing behavior requires shifts in brain activity – new synapses must be built to rewire neurons for change. Only supported action, in small -- even very small but consistent -- steps over a period of time builds these new neuron highways.

I have access to professional coach associations, coach networks and a global virtual on-line professional coach certification program for project support.