A Warm Welcome Curge Hill College

We are absolutely delighted to welcome another new Academy to our network this month and recently caught up with Curge Hill Director Priscilla Hackman-Asamoah to talk about her business and transition from PHA Coaching to Curge Hill College.

After a couple of phone calls, it was great to finally meet Priscilla on zoom and talk about her background, as well as future missions. Studying and working in Science, Priscilla was dedicated to her MSC and wanted to pursue a career in the sciences. She worked her way up the ranks within this position, achieving a final huge promotion to work across regions, not just towns locally but full counties. Within this role she was able to work with many different people from different backgrounds. It was at this moment Priscilla noted her interest in working with people. Getting involved, listening to people and connecting to people were all really important to Priscilla, and these weren’t always possible in her previous position. She found that she liked coaching and supporting individuals, so began coaching part time and then committed to coaching full time. This is when PHA was born. In 2020, Priscilla set up PHA Coaching.

When finalising their membership, Priscilla decided to apply under a new company name. Switching from PHA which now focuses on 1-2-1 coaching and support to Curge Hill College LTD which will continue to support group learning and suits those who may look for a more collaborative process. So the application for PHA Coaching became an application for Curge Hill College LTD, and we are really pleased to welcome them into the IOEE family.

We wanted to learn more about Curge Hill, their mission, values and vision. Priscilla said the following about Curge Hill.

“Our Vision: to serve as a training centre, resourced to equip persons and teams with entrepreneurial and management skills.

Our Mission: to assess the unique entrepreneurship and management skill-gaps, and to provide such needed knowledge through effective training systems.

Our values:

A Positive mindset:

To accept challenges and opportunities with an open mind, and explore options to make rational decisions.

Mutual respect:

To understand the uniqueness of individuals and appreciate the differences in people.

Fairness:

Our decisions and actions are objective, consistent, impartial and ethical.

Continuous self-development:

To understand that change is inevitable, and to position oneself to keep up with the times.”

The focus on ethical and fair education is something we support fully. Everyone should be able to access education and develop their skills.

Curge Hill College LTD aligns with the IOEE’s values of highlighting learners’ potential and encouraging students to produce their best work and look into their enterprising futures. So gaining academy status with us and having their programmes recognised with us was a really simple process.

Curge Hill College gained IOEE recognition for three of their programmes. Training in essentials of organisation management; an entrepreneurship perspective, training in business start up and strategy development and training in personal capacity building and self-leadership. All three of these programmes provide the learner with the essential toolkit and opportunities to develop their own skills and discover new ones, all while focusing on an end goal.

Getting IOEE recognition and academy status was important to Curge Hill College as a new business, to get that industry name and recognition. Priscilla agreed that getting recognition and academy status adds a level of value to the learner experience. We strongly believe in our offer to academies and we are really glad that a new academy agrees that there is a lot of value in having academy status and recognition.

We are really excited to see how the learners respond to Curge Hill’s teaching methods and collaborative learning experience. We wish Priscilla and all of Curge Hill’s learners the best of luck for this year and we will keep in touch with Priscilla about their experience this year.

You can find Curge Hill College LTD on Twitter here: Twitter: @phacoaching https://mobile.twitter.com/phacoaching

And LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ pha-coaching/