I provide professional executive coaching for you, a direct report, a project team or department, to improve confidence, focus and performance.
I can do this for you privately, or as part of a formal self-development support from your organisation. At all times, my coaching is set up with clear boundaries, and confidentiality, contracting (objectives) and a clear relationship and agreement on how we work together
I am not the coach for every situation and I am clear on what I am and what I am not. I am not a life coach, a therapist or a spiritual guide. I am an executive coach, and I focus on work performance and behaviour, and dealing with changes and the pressures of a business career.
My approach
I use a supportive but challenging approach to professional development, and my coaching philosophy is firmly based on the principles of Positive Psychology (Seligman ) with a strong emphasis on the individual understanding; personal motivations, developing emotional intelligence, strengths, autonomy, and change.
Approach is highly pragmatic, and uses strong elements of modern management practice such as Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz), alongside psychological principles of IKIGAI, Morita and ACT Therapy
Coaching Programme
Each coaching assignment can be tailored depending on the situation and context however a key principle is that it requires a commitment to the process and a clear start and end. Our coaching relationship may continue (and indeed many of my coaching assignments have done so). But, it is important we treat our coaching work as a project and a set piece of work.
Simple Six-Twelve Week Coaching Programme:
- Contracting (Objectives) and Boundaries (Professional Limits)
- Knowing Yourself – Big-5 Psychometric and Professional Development.
- Managing Yourself
- Strengths Profile > Personal Strengths, Assessment and Review
- Business Model You > Personal Action and Planning
- Personal Steps and Commitment To Action
- Review
During this process we may utilise a mixture of supportive and challenging questioning, and useful tools such as journaling, and a mixture of a review of work satisfaction and self-assessments and scenario planning.