1. What is coaching/executive coaching?

2. Why do we all need a coach – especially Leaders?

3. What does a coach do?

4. What does coaching ask of YOU?

5. How will we work together?

6. Is there proof coaching works?  

Coaching is a 'conversation’ in a safe and supported environment.  A coach partners with his/her clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential It is collaborative, solution-focused and action-orientated; facilitating personal and professional growth, goal attainment, learning and better performance. Coaching is about helping you identify and develop the skills and knowledge so that they have a positive impact on your life.  A coach can help leverage your skills to be more effective, and make a lasting difference.

Why Coaching?

• identify and leverage skills for leaders to inspire, enable and motivate others

• optimize individual and/or team performance and engagement

• further develop emotional intelligence capabilities

• expand professional career opportunities

• develop a career development plan

• improve business management strategies

• increase self-esteem/self-confidence

• manage work/life balance

• increase sense of life purpose and meaning

• identify personal values that drive us

• less stress-related absenteeism and increase resilience

• develop greater self-awareness and insight

• improved health and well being

• enhance thinking and decision making skills

• succession planning

Coaching can help you or your organisation evolve beyond where you currently are, remove obstacles that stand in your way from flying high, reassess what and how things are done, help you to learn better, and work a whole lot smarter...

The International Coach Federation (ICF), the worldwide professional body for coaches, defines coaching as "partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential. Coaching honours the client as the expert in his/her life and work and believes that every client is creative, resourceful, and whole.Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives."

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A coach may help accelerate your journey to success (what ever that may mean to you). Coaching provides an opportunity to reflect, renew and move forward in life so you can start to make choices about your future based on where you want to be. It can help you move towards a more meaningful life and reach your full potential.

Coaching has been described to me by my clients in these terms:

• "the greatest gift";

• "an opportunity to listen and follow my heart";

• "I can enable a better future";

• "I now have goals I can aim towards"

• "It's not what I learned about myself, but how I see myself now. Clear and with much better understanding of how elements in my life are interrelated and positioned."

Coaching has different outcomes for different people; however, almost in every case, it is life enhancing, opening the door to new ways of thinking, opportunities and possibilities.

Many organisations (up to 75%) are successfully integrating coaching into their wider HR learning and development focus. (Learning and Development survey 2007 – CIPD -Chartered Institute of Personal Development UK)

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A coach supports your vision to create your reality. Coaches have an important role to play in transitioning from one way of living and thinking to another, helping you recognise and seize opportunities, set goals and to look at things in a new way by learning new ways of thinking.  Coaching helps you become more self- aware and understand the impact your choices-  thinking, behaviour and demeanour have on yourself and others around you.

A coach supports you and enables you to believe in yourself and speak out your fears, dreams and desires. Coaches are trained to listen, observe, encourage, challenge, give you feedback and make you accountable. Most importantly, a coach's responsibility is to create a safe, secure and CONFIDENTIAL environment in which you can reflect, explore, reconnect and renew. They enable you to leverage the skills and wisdom that you already have and help you recognise ways in which to grow, recognise and take advantage of opportunities that come your way.

The way I work with you is to leverage the wisdom, skills and attributes that are already within you. By meeting you where you are and understanding your life journey and aspirations, we work together to ensure you live life at your best.

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Commitment and intention, courage, humour and honesty.

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• Face-to-face

• By phone

• in a group or individually

• 'Virtual' coaching via answering of reflective questionnaires and other exercises

• Via email

• Via Skype/Zoom/Teams

• "Kwik" calls - where I just check in with you

• Field work- where I visit you in your work environment

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Yes! The ICF Global Coaching Client Study shows most clients reported improved work performance, better business management, more efficient time management, increased team effectiveness, and more growth and opportunities. The same study found that coaching clients noted greater self-confidence, enhanced relationships, more effective communications skills, better work-and-life balance and an improvement in wellness. Nearly 70 percent of individuals indicated they had at least made back their initial investment. The median suggests that a client who achieved financial benefit from coaching can typically expect a ROI of more than three times the amount spent.

According to the same report, the vast majority of companies (86 percent) say they at least made their investment back. In fact, almost one-fifth (19 percent) saw a ROI of 50 times their investment, while another 28 percent saw a ROI of 10 to 49 times the investment. Nearly all companies or individuals who hire a coach are satisfied. According to the ICF Global Coaching Client Study, a stunning 99 percent of people who were polled said they were somewhat or very satisfied with the overall coaching experience. For more details, go to the ICF Research Portal, as well as press releases about ICF’s return-on-investment research.

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Should you have any other burning questions, don’t hesitate to contact us…

References

      i.         Survey of 100 Senior Executive from Fortune 1000 companies by Manchester Consulting, July 2001, published in Manchester Review: Maximising the impact of Executive Coaching: 2001. v. 6. No. 1and Chartered Institute of Personal Development UK 2004

     ii.         Grant, A., Curtayne, L., & Burton, G. (2009). Executive coaching enhances goal attainment, resilience and workplace well-being: A randomised controlled study. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4(5), 396_407.