Executive Coaching That Drives Results

First class Executive Coaching that enables you to succeed as a Leader

Everybody needs a Coach ……
~ Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc. ~

Executive Coaching – What Is In It For You?

In recent years Business Leadership has become even more complex. Increases in mobility, pace of technological change, new agile market entrants, international challenges, the requirement for greater transparency, compliance with regulators, the need to improve your businesses impact on the environment and the community, all constitute an enormous challenge for leaders in business.

Our outstanding knowledge and experience of business, combined with our world-class coaching skills, enables Leaders, key players and high potentials to accelerate their success and deliver an excellent return on their company’s investment. By working with us our clients have demonstrated:

A drive for success
An agenda for transformational change
The means to use their own bandwidth more effectively
A strong sense of the key priorities facing them and the key actions they must take
A better understanding of their strengths as a Leader
Insight into the actions they must take to improve their Leadership style
Values which are more clearly aligned with those of their company
A recognisable commitment to their own learning and development
A willingness to take risks and execute
Improved choice in how they work with their team and key stakeholders

The mean Return on Investment in coaching was 7 times the initial investment, and over a quarter of coaching clients reported a stunning ROI of 10 – 49 times the cost
~ Forbes.com report on ROI for Executive Coaching ~

What Is Executive Coaching?
What Is Your Role?

Executive Coaching done well enables you to hone your business Leadership skills in just the same way as a good tennis coach hones the skills of the leading tennis players. The Executive Coach combines their coaching skills and their business experience to enable you to make the most of your business and Leadership strengths, and to challenge you to reframe and repurpose your areas for improvement. Executive Coaching is focused on how you can make things happen in your business and from the outset you will wonder at the value that you can derive from each session.

Our Executive Coaches will enable you to go about your business with renewed confidence and vigour, better able to navigate, perform and transform by aligning yourself, your people, your stakeholders, your purpose and your strategy. We can help you to significantly improve your impact on your business’s bottom line and your business legacy at one and the same time.

The more invested you are in wanting to learn and improve your business and Leadership skills the more you will benefit from the coaching. You will do most of the work. Your coach is there to provide the framework and process for you to learn, access the resources and skills that you often perhaps are not even aware that you have, challenge you, enable you to think outside the box, help you to practise (in as close to reality as possible), and to heighten your own creativity and satisfaction in your improved performance.

As in the tennis example, you will constantly be reminded that true change starts with ‘I’. We help you to develop a stream of consciously adopted small changes which, of themselves, are relatively minor but taken together are the difference between good, average and outstanding performance. We help you to maximise the ripple effect from your day-to-day interactions to ensure that everything you do is clearly connected to your business strategy, your people and your business’s performance and profits.

The Key Themes For Our Executive Coaching Are:

Leadership:

Our aim as coaches, is to liberate you from the shackles of your perceived limits so you can find new clarity, purpose and inner strength. As a Leader, you will be more of who you already are – and you will be more at ease with yourself. You will return to work after each session with renewed confidence, inspiration and integrity. We work to help you gain improved self-understanding, so that you can make sustainable changes in thinking, behaviour, and effectiveness. Your Leadership style will be strengthened and will become more authentic.

Performance:

A key focus for most of our clients is their own individual performance and that of their team and the impact of this on their business. Our coaches’ challenge is to help each individual client understand what are the most important changes that they need to make, and to take actions in ways which encourage growth, creativity and improved performance amongst everyone in their immediate team and in the wider business.

Strategy:

Our objective is to reinforce the principal that the strategy development process needs to build on the energy, experience and engagement of all the key players on the Board. With our expert facilitation, we will help you gain the maximum buy in from the whole team and work with you to design and facilitate the strategic development process. We seek to enable the creativity of each individual Director such that they are 100% committed to the strategy and 100% focused on the execution of that strategy.

About Our Approach:

Relationship:

The relationship between you and your coach is key to its success and it is important that you choose a coach who feels right for you ie one who you trust to provide the right balance between acknowledging your strengths and progress and challenging you to push yourself even harder

Coaching:

Coaching done well (and our coaches strive constantly to do it to the best of their ability) should be exciting and enjoyable and most importantly should enable you to enjoy your business and personal lives more fully.

Purpose:

It is vital for you and your coach to agree the Leadership/business agenda on which you are going to work together. It is equally important that you agree on the amount of time to invest in the coaching, the key milestones and a target end date for the work.