Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching for Business Development

Executive coaching provides structure, a plan and holds you to account to get the results you want. It will get you from A-B far more quickly.

Executive coaching can be used for:

creating a new business
business development
business improvement
leadership development

F A Q

1. Why coaching?

Are you stuck?
Do you want to achieve better business outcomes?
Do you want something new or different?
Do you want to achieve something special or be better at what you are already doing?
Is something or someone stopping you?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes then, should you choose, coaching will help.

2. What is coaching?

“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance” (reference: Coaching for Performance: Sir John Whitmore).

It is the opposite of telling someone what to do. It assumes that we have the answers which may be covered up by layers of life experience, beliefs and whatever else life has put in the way. Coaching is creating the space to find the answers that help us get from A to B quicker and more effectively than we would on our own.

Workplace coaching is a flexible technique for improving performance at an individual, team or organisation level.

Life coaching uses the same techniques but focuses on overcoming personal issues and desired outcomes.

NLP brings additional skills linked to applied psychology. It can help to overcome fears and phobias, and change unhelpful beliefs or behaviours. It isn't magic but it feels like it sometimes!

3. How do I get coaching?

You need to find a coach you can work with and who has the right skills to meet your needs. So the first session with me is free. We spend about 15-20 minutes discussing your coaching needs and building rapport. If we both believe I have the right skills for you we then agree a coaching plan. If not, you are free to find another coach. You may have spent a long time deliberating already so don't delay any longer. To book a first free session contact me..

Coaching sessions last for up to one hour. Ideally we meet face to face but Skype is also excellent.

4. What is the difference between Executive coaching and other coaching?

Executive coaching focuses on achieving business outcomes.

5. What if?

Imagine achieving what you want to, or being the person you want to be. What if you pick up the phone now?

ASSIGNMENTS

Recent assignments have included:

Executive coaching for Jo, a Director to create a new training provider business. We used the Disney Strategy to guide creative thinking and create a viable business plans. Concept to business launch in under 4 months.
Executive coaching for Rachel, a business partner of Aspire Martial Arts www.aspire-martial-arts.co.uk to expand the business. We used values elicitation to establish a values hierarchy that we used to underpin the new direction. Concept to launch in about 3 months.
Executive coaching for a senior NHS leader to develop a financially viable business model within existing resources to deliver a new service. This complex scenario had been unresolved for several months and addressed in one session.
A member of the coaching team at Public Service Summer School where I coached a variety of senior leaders and managers from the public and third sector in Wales
A senior NHS manager to develop both his leadership skills and his implementation strategy.

Testimonals

Knowing and being confident that what was discussed would remain confidential was a key to the relationship and I knew I had that from the outset which made it very easy for the coachee/mentee relationship to develop well’….. ‘I know you will treat this with absolute confidentiality otherwise I would not have brought it here’. …. ‘Really useful. There were a couple of great questions that made me think differently to get the solution. One was what should the service be like? That helped me think bigger than the scrub nurse solution that was doomed to failure. – Director of Nursing

These coaching sessions really provide useful thinking and planning time. You challenge me in a good way. I have made far more progress with the businesses through you coaching than I would have done on my own or with my husband. I think the values will help me to concentrate my energies. Rachel – Business owner, Aspire Martial Arts

I can do self coaching but I can also dodge or block my own questions. I know that a question you ask or an observation you make will help shine a light on the thing I want to see more clearly. You consistently manage this.’ …….‘ It is a wonderful experience – even when you take me to difficult places. I look forward to our sessions. I get a ‘whoooo hoooo’ and go up a level’…. ‘I feel very safe in your hands. You give me time to think and work through things. I like the way that whatever intervention you use it feels natural – never forced. It all seems effortless and natural. Jo, Director.