Achieving or maintaining success requires focus, commitment, flexibility and resilience - an ability to let distractions fall away, to prioritise, maintain belief in the goal and to alter course if the evidence shows it to be necessary.  Our coaching work with leaders and those in transition to leadership leverages a background at the most senior levels, combined with formal business coach training.

 

Our approach is one of supportive challenge and openness.  We focus on providing the setting in which creativity and breadth of thinking can flourish, personal impact can be examined, the resilience to follow through on defined goals can be maintained and, importantly, learning and change can be embedded. 

We come ready to work with our clients on whatever issue, priority or challenge they face and to make a difference to how they engage with their goals.  
 

Establishing the coaching engagement 
 

The discovery and engagement stage establishes the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of the coaching contract. The process is flexible but focused on clarifying context and coaching goals, creating understanding of the process, ensuring compatibility between coach and coaching client and, most importantly, establishing trust in the coaching programme itself. At this stage, formal contracting also takes place.   

 

Coaching within organisations involves the coach, the coaching client and the client organisation.  Although there are necessary boundaries of confidentiality that exist between the coach and coaching client, the coaching framework is established through the proper alignment of the client firm's goals and those of the coaching client.  
 

Our whole approach at this important stage of the process is to ensure clarity of purpose, alignment of goals, a clear understanding of the process and its boundaries,  and agreement on implementation.  

 

Coaching meetings 

   

Coaching meetings provide the setting to maintain attention on what is of most use to our clients. By the time a client has made the decision to engage in coaching - to sit with us and reflect on challenges, issues, opportunities and action - a shift has already taken place.  Each coaching conversation builds on that shift, helping to build the momentum towards achieving clear goals.  
 

The timetable for coaching meetings is established at the outset and is tailored to each client.  Typically, clients find that meetings at monthly /six weekly intervals provides sufficient space for action, reflection and new insights to take place, but there is hard and fast rule.  The pace  and overall number of meetings will be determined by what works best for the client in support of their goals.  

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Coaching meetings - usually lasting between 1.5 and 2 hours - do not follow a prescriptive pattern, but clients can expect them to involve a focused discussion which: 

• identifies goals and success measures

• explores current issues and challenges

• evaluates options and obstacles

• identifies relevant action

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