This is the backbone of most of our interventions and of all of our leadership development work. Effective coaching is a major tool for enhancing personal skills, developing competence and improving performance, both in the workplace and in every other area of life. Good coaching will help you decide where you want to get to and what you need to start doing, keep doing, or stop doing in order to get there.
Coaching will throw light on your core values and can help you to identify goals and find appropriate ways of meeting those goals. It can also help you to understand those little gremlins, or ‘saboteurs’, whose voices sometimes get in the way of you achieving what you want to achieve.
Our aim is to enable clients to walk with a spring in their step because they have moved forward in their thinking, planning, and practice through working with us.
In the workplace coaching can lead to a significant raising of one’s game and can help aspiring leaders to step up to new roles and responsibilities, becoming more effective at what they do and in how they develop teams and manage others. Coaching really is a cost-effective way of ‘raising the bar’ at work.
Some people talk about ‘business’ or ‘executive coaching’ and ‘life coaching’ as if they are quite different things – but this is rather misleading. Much of our work is with high-flyers at work whose issues may include relationships with other people, balancing work with family and other aspects of a busy life, or planning how they might go about looking for something new.
Coaching is a good idea when you perceive a gap between where you are and where you'd like to be and you have the motivation and energy to do something to fill the gap.
Life coaching deepens self-awareness. This means you can choose to live with greater clarity of vision. It is action based, practical and, although it can be hard work, the key thing is you're not trying to make changes alone. Your coach is entirely on your side with no expectation or pressure on you to do anything you don't want to do, but will encourage you to move out of the familiar and comfortable into what will be more effective. A coach will treat what you say in confidence.
Each session will conclude with an agreement regarding what you will do between sessions. Examples include:
- Think through the key milestones on the way to making a major change
- Practise saying 'no' to an unwanted invitation
- Plan how to deliver on targets identified in your company appraisal
- Identify what you want out of a meeting or out of a possible promotion
- Clear out a room a week of a chaotic home
- Design the ad to meet a new partner
- Plan what you want your business to look like in three years
There is no aspect of your life that we can't talk about.
Most of our coaching is done by phone, which adds value by being cost-effective on time and outlay and allows greater flexibility for those being coached.
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