Coaching
Coaching is a creative, collaborative
process in which the coach (me), helps the coachee (you) to meet their
work-related and personal goals. It involves questioning, listening,
observation and feedback to create a conversation rich in insight and learning. I won’t tell you what to do but will
help you to focus on your circumstances in a different way, giving you greater
self-awareness and understanding - and new ways to get where you
want to go.
At work, coaching is particularly good
for self-development (e.g., changing your leadership style, improving
relationships, learning new skills), or dealing with transitions (e.g.,
stepping into a new role, switching career, moving on after redundancy).
My approach
Everyone’s different, so if we work
together I’ll design a coaching programme just for you that draws on a wide
range of evidence-based, psychologically informed coaching approaches. There’s
no rule of thumb: I’ve been working with some of my clients for years; others
just have a few sessions to tackle a particular issue.
The first step is a free, confidential,
45-minute chat in which we explore what you’re looking for, how I can help, what a
programme might look like and how much it would cost.
Book a free discovery call. ︎︎︎
If we find that I’m not the right coach
for you, or if you’d like to shop around a bit – which is always a good idea - I’m
very happy to recommend other coaches, too.
Career Coaching
Career coaching helps people at
all stages of their career work out what they’d really like to do all day, and
provides practical support on how to make it happen. Typically, we’d cover:
− Your relationship with work
− Who you are at work (values, strengths and motivations)
− Possible futures (obvious and less obvious)
− How you’re going to get there.
I encourage equal amounts of reflection
and action: self-knowledge is important, but you’ll learn by doing and will
feel better for having started. Throughout the process, I draw on my experience
as a head-hunter to advise on practical things like personal branding and
statements, CVs, LinkedIn, and how to frame your story, skills and
competencies.
How it works:
Most people have between 3 and 6 sessions, but we’ll design a programme around you (and adapt it on the go if we need to). I combine one-to-one
coaching with work between sessions, and often use psychometric testing and
personality assessments to give extra insight into strengths, derailers, values and drivers at work.
Leadership Coaching
Executive coaching is about becoming a better leader through improved
self-awareness and performance. It matters because a happier, more confident,
self-aware leader will have a positive impact on everyone around them which, in
turn, will be good for business.
One client described me as their “back-up brain.” In practice, I’m a
thinking partner to senior people who rarely have the time and space to think
beyond the day-to-day, let alone consider their own development. I’ve worked
with most of my clients for a couple of years: we always keep the idea of who
they are as a leader (and how they want to evolve) in mind, using our sessions
to tackle live issues and experiment with different ways of “doing leadership”.
How it works:
Programmes usually take the form of rolling 6- or 12-month engagements, meeting once a month with the odd email or call in between.
Team Coaching & Development
Team coaching focuses on getting better shared awareness of your team drivers and values, which can drive all kinds of benefits: improved communication and trust, increased cohestion around goals and objectives, and clarity around organisational and team cultures. Crucially, it can also help harness and amplify cognitive diversity in the team, increasing understanding of shared blind spots, biases and groupthink.
How it works: