COACHING FOR Your Business

How I can support your business & your team

It’s no secret that our new working world is a product of unprecedented change. Managers and leaders are navigating highly complex and sensitive issues from hybrid working environments and dispersed leadership, to DEI and CSR strategies and significant change management, all while juggling their daily responsibilities.

Coaching is effective for all team members and can be a vital part of a holistic employee engagement and development programme. I provide individualised support to your people, improving their self-awareness and ultimately, effectiveness within the workplace.

HOw my clients have benefitted from career and leadership coaching:

- Improved leadership skills, team management and team dynamics, especially for those in Manager/Director-level roles

- More efficient and thorough on-boarding for new or recently-promoted employees

- Enhanced productivity and decision-making skills  

- Improved employee engagement, satisfaction and retention

- Enriched company culture and internal communication

- Greater self-awareness, learning and personal accountability

- Finding clarity and purpose post-redundancy

My approach

The approach to coaching for teams or individuals within your business is bespoke and will be developed entirely around your unique needs.  Typically the journey follows these three steps:

Step 1

We’ll work together to set the business case while ensuring we have the right chemistry fit.  Coaching is typically 1:1 with an individual but establishing the goal of the work/business case could be done with their line manager as well.     

We’ll also establish how many sessions we need to get started, typically 4 - 6 or whatever suits the work best.

Step 2

We’ll meet for 1:1 sessions, virtually or in-person with regular check points to be sure we are making tangible progress. 

If a line manager or other member of the team was initially involved, this person is also kept abreast of progress.

Step 3

After the series of sessions is complete, we’ll re-visit the business case and re-align on what the next steps should be.

Please contact me to discuss more about how coaching can support your people and your business.

Common questions about coaching

  • Coaching is a powerful form of personal and professional development, a future-focused, action-oriented practice. We work together in a trusting and safe environment to find clarity, evoke awareness and design actions to get the results that are most important to you. Coaching typically takes place over multiple sessions depending on the desired results, but even a single session can be impactful.

  • No, coaches and therapists are qualified to offer very different forms of support. There are certain things that therapists are better suited to helping you with and vice versa.

    Coaching is a goal and action oriented practice, often centred around career, work-life balance or big transitions. It will challenge behaviours and elicit focus, clarity and accountability. Coaches believe that the coachee is resourceful, creative and whole and has the answers they need within them, it’s our job to unlock this wisdom.

    Coaches should be certified/accredited to practise.

    Therapists are licensed and trained to address serious mental challenges. A therapist typically focuses on the present as well as the past, to support the client to find awareness and change behaviours. If you are facing issues around addiction, depression, trauma, mental health or anxiety - therapy could be a good option for you.

  • A coachee just needs to show up to the session. If you have an idea of the change you’d like to see, that’s great but if not, we can work on that together. This is where the magic happens!

  • Our work together is entirely confidential. My role is to provide you with a safe and trusting environment to explore your current reality and what your next steps might be, whether short or long term. I’ll partner with you to provide the support and challenge necessary to get the results you would like to see. It’s a collaborative process.

    Before we start, we’ll have a complimentary introductory session, where we’ll discuss your goals, intended outcomes and how we would work together. We’ll also decide the cadence and approximate number of sessions we’ll need. As coaching is such a personal service it’s important that you and your coach are a good fit, so this session also gives us the opportunity to feel out whether we’ll be pushing towards the same goal rather than pulling in opposite directions. We’ll spend a good amount of time together over the next few weeks so mutual respect is important.

  • One of our first tasks will be to decide the outcomes you’d like to see in your career and yourself. Each time we meet, we’ll establish the goal for that session, which we’ll then revisit before we finish that day’s work. In addition to this, we’ll have a few check-in and reflection points along the way. This will allow us to make sure the goals you’re aiming for are still your priority and readjust if anything has changed along the way. And this does happen! When people are able to clarify what it is that they want, not what is expected of their role or position, then goals and aims can shift focus. This is good and exactly what we are aiming to work through.

  • If a coachee’s Line Manager is going to be involved in the process we (coach, coachee and Manager) will meet to discuss the focus of the work and the intended outcomes as a first-step. We will also agree timelines and structure for check-in points along the way.

    The details of the coachee’s sessions remain confidential but regular updates (usually from the coachee) will be provided to the Manager along the way.

    At very minimum, we will come back together at the conclusion of the sessions to discuss progress and determine next steps. Ideally, there are regular touch points along the way.

    In rare cases, mediation is required which can be discussed, if necessary.