Executive Coaching

As a coach I help senior leaders uncover their blindspots and support shifts in behaviour and thinking. Each assignment is very different, but some of the scenarios that crop up include leaders needing to:

• Get clarity on issues that are important
• Improve their capability to deal with conflict or stakeholders
• Clarify their strategic thinking around a topic
• Execute a strategy more effectively
• Improve their work – life balance

Each coaching process is unique and so time is spent creating clear outcomes and measures of success for the coaching programme.

Transition coaching

Many transitions happen: taking a new role, moving from one function to a different one, moving in to a new company or simply returning to work after a break. Each of these comes with new challenges:

• Building strong and effective relationships
• Formulating at pace plans and then executing them
• Raising visibility and influence across the organisation
• Building a high performing team to deliver expectations
• Manage stress and overload effectively

My transition coaching work is typically carried out over 100 days and may include psychometrics and “style” instruments.

Psychometric & 360 Feedback

Assessments provide a great opportunity for leaders to raise their bar. The areas I tend to work on are:

• Emotional Intelligence: Our capacity to understand and manage our own emotions, as well as recognise those of others and interact with them
• Style / Type: How we come across to others, thus enabling us to enhance our communication style to get better results when collaborating
• Leadership 360s: Getting powerful feedback from others to make shifts in leadership behaviours
• Team assessments: Enabling teams to get clarity on how they are and can raise performance

My work in this space can be a one-off feedback and coaching session or a series of sessions to support personal and professional change.

Team coaching

Through my work I enable teams to bond and perform to higher levels. This is due to my work in creating:

• Improved alignment: Knowing where they are going and why
• Enhanced coordination: Clearer roles and responsibilities
• Greater cohesion: A stronger commitment to each other and their task
• Raised effectiveness: Ensuring synergies really come out in the team
• Better stakeholder relations: Clarity of the constellation and how to work with them

I use a range of tools and techniques to team coach including assessments and visual templates. I also draw on my experience as a Certified Professional Facilitator in my team coaching work.

Compact Coaching

Coaching is not a quick fix solution to deep professional issues, but coaching can help people find simple and easy to implement ideas to create a shift in ways of working with more common, everyday issues. In my work over the last 10 years as coach, I have seen them following topics “pop up” time and time again: Procrastination, Time management, Stress management, Work – life balance, Conflictive relationship, Presenting to senior leaders or clients, Managing performance of a team member, Leading virtually, Influencing others and Managing upwards.

Compact coaching includes a topic focused self assessment done at the start and prior to the last session, a two hour coaching session and two thirty follow up sessions, as well as ten follow up emails with appropriate resources all within a ten week period.