EVERYONE!!
The advantages of having a professional, experienced coach are significant.
Coaching is viewed as an executive benefit in large corporations and offered to fast-track executives to enable them to develop a range of skills that will equip them to advance more rapidly in their careers.
This is now increasingly popular for anyone interested in developing their skillsets in their professional or personal lives.
A coach is someone who provides you with a safe space to discuss your concerns, challenges and issues and can give you valuable perspective, provide insight and reinforcement as well as help you identify behavioural patterns that are unhelpful or damaging.
A COACHING ENGAGEMENT
Coaching is an enriching process, both for the client and the coach. It needs commitment from both parties and a willingness to speak and hear the truth, even when this is uncomfortable.
Whilst there is an understanding of expected outcomes, coaching does not guarantee particular results. It is a process and can sometimes reveal undiagnosed issues that are totally different to the presenting ones.
Our coaching engagements start with a face to face chemistry meeting, for which there is no charge. This is an opportunity for both the client and the coach to discover if there is a potential fit to enable the success of the relationship. Often, we will have a three-way meeting that includes an executive from the sponsoring employer, to define objectives, (which can include feedback work) and an end-of-engagement report. We then prepare a short contract confirming the objectives of the coaching engagement from the stakeholders’ perspective, an estimated timeline, (usually six to twelve months) and a proposed fee structure.
The engagement is reviewed at six months or earlier if necessary.
COACHING FOR DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES
In addition to international corporate clients, I have coached individuals and teams from the NHS, Academia, Law, Media, young entrepreneurs and more mature ones!
I also provide coaching for those people considering a career change such as moving from a vocational career to a commercial environment. For example, an NHS doctor to a role in the pharma industry, or an architect to an entrepreneur.
Sometimes the coaching requirement is about time management, building professional relationships, or simply wanting to be seen or heard in a particular environment.
