Coaching

Our clients come to us with their toughest assignments – working with an accountant in a professional services firm who has three months to make the grade as a senior partner; helping a medical clinician step into one of the toughest senior management roles in the NHS; getting a FTSE 100 Finance Director ready to take over as CEO; preparing the new leader of a national sports team for the Olympic Games.

We can do this because we bring a blend of pragmatism, experience, emotional clarity and a useful conceptual map of how human beings develop and grow through their lives. Different jobs bring different challenges, and our role is to help people adapt and make sense of their new world. We help people swim – not sink - when they move to a new role.

In our experience, coaching works best when it’s a collaborative process, a dynamic relationship where the coach is neither simply a passive listener nor the fount of all wisdom. We ask good questions that provoke, challenge, and inspire. We listen ferociously. And when its appropriate we’ll be directive and create momentum, as we help our clients make a real difference to their working lives and businesses.

At its essence, coaching is about change. We bring an awareness of how people and organisations change, and how personal commitment to change is often blocked by competing needs and underlying assumptions. Whilst many managers might claim they want to delegate more and empower their teams, few are really willing to acknowledge their fear of losing control or failing. Yet without acknowledging these fears, well-meaning attempts to change often founder. We use simple, accessible tools that help anyone identify and deal with their unique patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

In the increasingly crowded world of executive coaching, our clients keep coming back to us because they know we help make a difference.