We work together on the challenges that you or your team are actually facing: a difficult relationship, a team that is not working as well as it could, a change that needs to land, or a leadership pattern that is getting in the way.
The work is practical. We pay attention to what you think and say, and also to what is happening underneath: how you respond under pressure, the patterns you may fall into and the signals other people may be picking up from you. This can mean working at several levels, from leadership capabilities and day-to-day behaviours to reactive patterns and the underlying beliefs that shape them.
The work may take the form of executive coaching, team development, a leadership programme or support through change. The format follows the challenge, not the other way around.
We start with the business concerns and leadership issues you most want to address. Rather than relying on abstract exercises, we work with what is actually happening in the business and between the people involved. Real situations give us the best material for understanding what is helping and what is getting in the way.
We work in partnership to identify what needs to shift and help you move towards the outcomes you want.
We look beneath the immediate concerns to understand what may be creating or sustaining them. That can include underlying beliefs, emotional and protective responses, team norms and habits that have become automatic.
We approach these patterns with curiosity rather than judgement. As they become visible and better understood, people often find that new choices and capacities become available.
In coaching sessions, we slow things down enough to notice these patterns and understand how they are affecting the situation.
Seeing the pattern is a start. Change happens as you try something different and learn from what happens. We experiment with new practices and different ways of responding and working to see what helps.
The experimentation happens between coaching sessions.
Insight is only useful if it changes what happens day to day. We turn what you are learning into practical ways of leading and working that you can use in real situations.
With practice, these new ways become more natural and easier to sustain, including when things get difficult or old habits begin to return.
New ways of leading that hold up in practice.
We start with the real work