Mentoring and Coaching

Coaching and expert guidance for executives and key managers to enable effective planning and preparation for the demands of their role. The process clarifies thinking and can enhance achievement of personal and organisational goals.

Executive and Manager Coaching

As a business owner, executive or key business manager, we know that your time is increasingly pressured. With increasing demands on your attention, reviewing personal performance and developing new skills is a priority that all too often slips to the bottom of the list. Frequently though, we already have much of the knowledge we need, and our challenge is to put it into practice effectively in our current role and situation.

Performance coaching can help you review your work and career goals, your personal challenges and your approach to identify direct actions you can take to achieve immediate performance improvement.

You may need to:

• Cope with increasing demands in a role
• Decide how to handle challenging business situations
• Engage or manage employees more effectively or
• You may wish to make a career change

Whatever your focus, the process of coaching clarifies thinking and is now widely used to rapidly enhance achievement of personal and organisational goals.

Our approach enables you to make a holistic review of the issues under consideration, and develop plans and skills to strengthen your response to the situation. We use a mixture of coaching, mentoring, training and/or counselling skills, selected to suit your requirements at the time.

With this flexibility, we can work together on the performance issue to make a realistic improvement plan. You will have a thorough understanding of the responses and choices open to you and your colleagues and ideas and suggestions for change.

The Benefit to You

A business coach helps you express your thoughts around a problem or situation and plan for making appropriate change. You get opportunities to practice new approaches and feedback to help you understand other people’s responses better. Whatever the issue you are working with we will help ring clarity and understanding to you.

Your issues might include how to:

• Demonstrate effective and appropriate leadership
• Devolve greater responsibility & accountability to your team
• Manage difficult colleagues
• Raise your game and achieve a higher level of personal performance

This is what you get for an agreed fee:

• Six face to face and telephone meetings as and when required
• Diagnostic services
• Personal feedback & support
• Specific plans and approaches to suit your requirements
• Open access to your coach by telephone and email

2: Business Mentoring

Do you need someone to bounce ideas of? Could you use some expert advice in integrating your ideas and planning your business changes? We provide mentoring advice by telephone and in person to help you think through all the implications and underlying issues so that your changes will be sustainable and effective.

Typical Mentoring Issues include How To:

• Engage your employees more fully in your organisation
• Ensure performance is expected and rewarded
• Review your business strategy
• Change your current culture to a future desired state
• Ensure two-way communication occurs consistently
• Deal with resistance to a new approach
• Plan for implementing changes

How does it work?

Contact us by phone or email to book an appointment, then email some background information about your company and the issue you are facing. During the call, you will agree the level of service appropriate to your situation, budget and schedule. Using well designed questions we will discuss the issues and provide ideas for resolving them, leaving you with clarity and confidence in making the right changes.

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