What is Coaching?
Personal Coaching
Personal coaching provides support to individuals wishing to make some form of significant change happen within their lives. We help individuals to explore what they want in life and how they might achieve their aspirations and fulfil their needs. Personal coaching also focuses on key significant relationships and interactions.
- It’s your relationship with yourself that determines the course of your relationships with others. Getting to understand your less conscious patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving and realising why you react in certain ways will lead to personal growth and improvement in relationships with family, friends and colleagues
- Work out where you want to go with your life, take steps to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be
- Evaluate the opportunities in your life and overcome obstacles, building self-confidence
- Its just as important for couples and families to set goals together and to understand the strengths each member brings and where potential challenges or differences could lie in achieving those common objectives
Executive & Leadership Coaching
Executive/leadership coaching focuses on helping senior leaders within an organisation to improve their leadership and personal performance. By strengthening the approaches of the most influential people within the organisation, it engenders positivity amongst employees and better results for the company. Executive coaching can enable the executive to have a “thinking space” and a sounding board to think through issues and generate new ideas. Executive coaching is usually for an agreed duration or number of coaching sessions. Our blend of business experience, understanding of human psychology and organisational culture and systems ensures that the executive’s challenges are understood.
- Improve leadership skills and performance to increase impact and influence.
- One-on-one support to set realistic personal goals that are aligned with the organisational vision and develop achievable strategies and actions to reach those goals.
- Develop new skills and fresh insights.
- Be challenged and integrate new ways of thinking
- Increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Enhance the execution capacity and interactions of a team
- Hone the skills needed to transition to a new position or role within or beyond the company.
Team Coaching
Team dynamics are critical to achieving business objectives. The challenge here is balancing the individuals that make up the team and their agendas with the goals of the group. Our coaching aims to address not only what the team do, but how they do it.
- A team is made up of individuals that need to act in the best interest of the collective
- Gain an understand of what each team member naturally contributes to the group
- Understand the interplay between individual and team dynamics
- Get to grips with what drives or inhibits the team’s success currently
- Examine team dynamics and utilise new techniques to empower healthy teams and enhance their effectiveness
Young Adults Coaching
The sooner an individual starts to grapple with questions like:
- What is holding me back from reaching my potential?
- Why do I sometimes seem to self-sabotage my own good intentions?
- Why do I react and act the way I do?
- How can I improve myself, my relationships and my life?
the more effectively and confidently they can manage themselves, their relationships and the career. Young people face significant pressures and at times life can be overwhelming. Coaching can equip them to face their issues with self awareness and confidence.
- Take steps to discover, explore and become the best and most confident person you can be into the future
- Balance own self-expectations with the pressures of transitioning to adulthood and independence
- Improve self-awareness and understand the motivation behind behaviour, thoughts and feelings of self and others
- Prepare for leaving school, studying further or entering the workplace by harnessing skills, taking charge and thinking differently
- Have the best relationships with family, friends and pave the way for developing inspiring new friendships
Couples Coaching
Relationships can bring us significant happiness and fulfilment, but they can also be the source of frustration and friction. Sometimes a close partnership can work well for ages and then suddenly things can fall apart and we are left wondering – what happened?
We offer personal coaching for couples using the Enneagram. This is ideal for a strong beginning for a new relationship, but also very helpful to bring insight to those partnerships that have stalled having hit repetitive stumbling blocks.
Achieve a better understanding of yourself within the relationship
Gain insight into each other’s patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving
Obtain an understanding of your partner’s values, unspoken needs and expectations
Get clarity about frustrations, fears & defensive strategies
Develop a fresh perspectives about conflict – why it happens and how it could be avoided
Maximise the strengths you share as a couple and as individuals
Become aware of potential trouble spots between you that can derail the relationship
Our Coaching philosophy
We bring an objective perspective and diverse experience. We drive a conversational approach to bring visibility to opportunities, issues or behavioural challenges. We help people understand themselves more fully, both as individuals and leaders.
We have at least 25 years’ experience in business, are accredited in current coaching practices and dynamics, and have a sound understanding of human behaviour.
We see coaching as a blend of art and craft. Each client, their situation, the environment they face, is unique and our ability lies in being able to apply our training, understanding, insight and experience to the particular situation.
The Enneagram, a powerful psychological system, is coming into its own as one of the most insightful tools available to assist with personal development. We use the Enneagram predominantly as a framework that is the starting point to begin the journey to personal growth. We also draw on other tools such as NLP, Insights Discovery and MBTI, for example.
Is coaching right for you?
Do you have...
- An appreciation that improving self-development through self-knowledge and increasing self-awareness is key to managing how best to interact with the world.
- An open mind towards change and the opportunity to unlock their own wisdom and potential, building new behaviours and attitudes
- A willingness and a personal responsibility to continue to learn and improve
- An openness to discuss what is working and where you may have become stuck or plateaued.
- An interest in understanding others, significant partners or stakeholder relationships where there may be conflicting objectives, in either personal life or business
- An idea that the more there is an understanding of self and others, the better your own and other’s needs can be met