“There are so many doors open in my mind right now that this coaching has given me different perspectives to try out, it’s truly transformational.”
– Sr Marketing Manager, Microsoft
Our approach to coaching
We believe…
There is no more powerful enabler for change than having someone who believes in you and challenges and supports you to achieve your goals.
Everyone has potential…
With motivation, every coachee has the potential to realise the outcomes they seek through a productive partnership.
We work strategically and behaviourally…
We coach clients to tackle both the surface-level challenges such as influencing across a matrix, alongside exploring the roots of their natural leadership style, values and beliefs. We believe that coaching at both levels is necessary for successful and sustainable change.
Typical coaching outcomes and benefits
Executive Coaching is aimed at developing, retaining and supporting leaders in your organisation who as a result of coaching may typically;
Gain greater self-confidence, courage and tenacity
Feel braver and more assertive
Learn to align decision-making with core values for longer-term fulfilment
Practice strategies to overcome perfectionism and people-pleasing, prioritising opinions that matter and setting healthy boundaries
Get greater clarity on their purpose and what is truly meaningful
Take bold, immediate steps toward personal and professional goals
Have greater self-awareness of what holds them back and moves them forward
Learn the tools to have courageous conversations and the motivation to have them
Practice being kinder to others and themselves without compromising standards
Feel able to ask for what they need or want, with less fear around hearing “no”
Build greater resilience when faced with challenges & strategies to help overcome these
“We know each other but don’t really know each other personally – it’s surprising how similar our challenges are!”
– Operations Leader, Microsoft (Group Coaching)
Our assessment approach
We use assessment tools on a case-by-case basis depending on the needs and outcomes of the coachee, their manager and the sponsor of the engagement. Below are some of the psychometrics our team of coaches is certified in:
NEO PI R
MBTI, Insights
Dare to Lead Assessment
Hogan (HPI, HDS, MVPI)
Leadership Circle
Embedding learning through coaching
Coaching enables learning to be applied to individual contexts, exploring and moving past the barriers that get in the way of taking smart risks, and providing accountability and momentum to start experimenting.
1:1 Coaching provides a safe and personalised space to explore sensitive and challenging topics and, building on the foundations of a psychometric, get clear on the biggest opportunities for growth.
Group coaching builds a longer-term culture of self-supporting networks where people challenge and support.
What people do differently as a result of our coaching
Asking for help from their leadership team peers to help manage priorities and workload before a potential burnout
Asking for a different work schedule to help accommodate childcare rather than staying quiet because “it would look bad for my career”
Asking for 1;1’s with senior leaders to share constructive feedback on behalf of their team
Using team meetings to check in properly in small groups before moving forward into business issues, and finding challenges resolved more quickly
Setting up meetings to share what they are working on to benefit the team rather than send emails, encourage discussion and raise personal visibility and impact.
Daily self-care space away from screens; examples include walking phone call meetings, morning/lunchtime walks, boundaries around meeting times.
Meeting up as a smaller group to cross-collaborate on a project, using their different skillsets to support their team members and hold each other accountable for their actions