Coaching
Our coaching approach is thorough, intensive and honest, enabling managers to make a realistic appraisal of their situation - what needs to change and why. We help people understand what energises them, maximise their strengths and overcome potential blockages.
Our approach puts particular emphasis on:
The Contract - ensuring that everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet: the goals for coaching need to be realistic, transparent, defined in terms of observable outcomes, and supported by both the sponsoring line manager and the individual.
Assessment - understanding the current situation: where possible, we gather feedback to understand the detail of what's really going on. We return for further feedback as coaching progresses to establish if performance is changing outside of the coaching room.
Matching the best coaching style for a situation or individual - there isn't one way to coach. Our experience allows us to adapt our approach to meet the needs of a specific coaching situation. People, issues and organisations are all delightfully different. We recognise that.
Areas of coaching expertise
Specific Performance Issues
Helping individuals who appear to have hit a performance ceiling to stretch themselves to new levels of achievement.
Raising awareness of, and building alternatives to, behaviours that recur regularly and impact negatively on performance.
Career Pathways
Coaching senior managers at a career crossroads to review their style, interests and capabilities in order to make sound choices.
Guiding individuals in their career development. Helping them set well-defined, realistic goals as a motivator for work life and performance.
Periods of Change
Coaching managers and teams to lead others, and manage their own issues, through organisational change.
Supporting newly promoted managers and new joiners to develop the capability to deliver their new responsibilities.
Stress and performance
Providing stress management assistance to those who find the demands of their work provokes stress and potential health issues. Helping individuals identify the underlying ‘triggers’ of stress and develop ways of managing them. Supporting people through personal issues to minimise the effect on their work life.
Project Coaching
Supporting team performance during live projects/consulting assignments.
Off-line action learning groups.