WHY GET A COACH
New to role leader looking to facilitate quicker transitions: Develop a better understanding of the dynamics and requirements of your new role and adapt to it in a manner that is authentic and consistent with who you are. Because pretending to be someone else simply won’t scale. The coach focuses your attention on acquiring new insights, skills, and capabilities to ramp up operational effectiveness in the new domain.
Senior leader looking to manage business complexity better: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. Things change, disruption happens, as they should. With change comes the need for adaptation, for fresh thinking and sometimes a total reboot. The coach helps you to reframe this problem as an emerging opportunity. Take a difficult situation and learn through it.
High potential talent looking to accelerate leadership development: Leadership development is not one-size-fits-all. As if the same skills or leadership style is effective regardless of the context. The most effective way to learn to become a great leader is by doing the job. The coach provides a personalised individually-tailored way of learning rather than programmatic. This is learning in the flow of work. Learning at the speed of business.
CEO looking for a safe space to have difficult conversations: Leaders can lead very lonely lives. Never in your life have you been so surrounded by people, yet felt so isolated. No one understands you. No one appreciates how hard the job is. Coaching allows for confidential conversations you cannot have with superiors, peers, employees, or family. The coach acts as a sounding board to explore different perspectives on organisation dynamics or strategic matters.
IS COACHING FOR YOU?
You will get the best results from coaching if:
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You are motivated to learn and evolve
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You can actively engage in the process
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You are self-aware and willing to go deep
You don’t need these to begin the coaching process:
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Clear goals
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High emotional intelligence
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Communication skills
These qualities emerge as a result of the coaching process. They are not prerequisites for coaching.
You are unlikely to benefit from coaching if:
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You do not see a need for change
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You are unwilling to look inwards
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You are resistant to being open and emotionally vulnerable
PRINCIPLES
Learning in the flow of work: Connect with a skilled advocate who’s in your corner at all times.
Practical: Take a deep dive into your present situation, with focused support, covering multiple topics in each session, depending on the situation. Examples of topics; Shifting Mindsets and Values, Emotional Intelligence, Leading Transitions On Your Terms, Difficult Conversations (Coaching), Giving Feedback and Decision Making.
Personalised: Space for self-reflection and behaviour change to unlock the best way for you to lead, in a way only you can.
INVEST IN YOURSELF
Our coaching engagements are all about getting to your result. Investing in yourself is a joyful experience and we want to keep our subscription model clean and simple, month-by-month engagement approach.
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Typically, coaching engagement is 3 or 6 months.
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2 x 60-minute sessions per month which include support on an as-needed basis (for example, WhatsApp or short call to prepare for the difficult conversation).