What is Coaching?
Coaching is a process to support clients in going further, by partnering with the client to support their own thought process and learning, by thinking beyond current thinking, uncovering blocks and shifting perspective towards their optimum potential.
Coaching could be for you if you are feeling stuck, having difficulty moving forward, want to find more balance, want to develop or want to change or improve something and want to put in the work to see results.
The benefits of coaching can be developing self-awareness, addressing limiting beliefs, help focus, support reflection, embracing change, seeing things in a different way (mindset), see different options, being more self-reliant and help you move forward towards goals or vision.
For organisations or business this can benefit the company and support your employees in improving performance, gaining clarity, increasing resilience, achieving focus, cultivating innovation, creating plans and accountability, reaching goals and success.
Some key difference between coaching and training, therapy, mentoring & consulting:
Types of Coaching:
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Executive Coaching for C-suit, board members and senior leaders, tailored to meet individual needs and build on prior knowledge, experience, coaching and training.
Leadership coaching can be a blended coaching approach, focused mainly on pure coaching, combined with individualized learning models or frameworks where required to support developing leadership skills, specifically around; EI, values, resilience, reflection and change.
The process is intended to meet the individual needs in terms of development, performance and success, as well as the organizations’ (where applicable), with a combination of structured design and flexible elements.
The aim is to support good leaders in becoming better leaders. Although many leaders lead teams, you can also be someone who takes responsibility or owns a process or people within an organization. -
Inclusive practices (DE&I: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) coaching is for everyone. It is aimed at different diversity aspects people are working through. That can vary from person to person, and it is a broad areas. Some examples of topics could be; working with unconscious or conscious biases, inclusive leadership (part of leadership), allyship, and much more. The sessions are quite personal, individual, and develop over time. The coaching is focused on the person being coached and how they go forward. Also if you work within this area it is a space to use a thinking partner who has an understanding of the area.
Cultural coaching can mean leading or working across cultures and how to understand and adapt. Some people have multicultural teams or just working in a global or international environment. This can also link to leadership style.
Organizations also have a cultural aspect which may be what is being coached around. Sometimes this overlaps or is combined with transformation and transition, if the organization wants to change the culture or if there is an M&A.
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Two different yet often intertwined topics. Wellbeing is a huge part of coaching, arguably all coaching has an element of it. Mental health contributes to many aspects of our life, including achieving what we want to or living how we want to. We all experience ups and downs in mental health at different times, coaching can help going from a state on languishing to flourishing. This is not a replacement for therapy or where mental illness is present.
Wellbeing can also contribute to building resilience, which is key when things get challenging, whether we planned them or not. There can be a link to transitions here or wanting to achieve something challenging. It can also be something to build when things are going well and finding what works well for you and building that self-awareness to move forward.
There are a lot of different approaches to both wellbeing and resilience, the coaching itself looks at what works for you as an individual and creating your own approach. -
Transition coaching is aimed at where there is a change taking place within an organisation, for a person, or external change. Coaching supports navigating the change through the transition, towards transformation.
Some examples of change could be:
• M&A
• reorgs
• relocation
• cultural change
• start-up division or business
• change in role or promotion
• pandemic related changes
• becoming a parent
• change in career
Next steps:
Please contact me to discuss, we will set up a initial call to see if we are a fit and answer any questions.