Executive Coaching

“Coaching is predominantly an exercise in self- understanding and self changing on the part of the coachee“

Erik De Haan

Director of Ashridge Centre of Coaching at Ashridge/Hult International Business School

Coaching can be described as a step-by-step process to finding answers to challenges, to get closer to stated goals, and even to move from a degree of anxiety or overwhelm to more confidence and determination, with regard to an issue, problem or opportunity

There is strong evidence and a growing appreciation that investment in coaching senior leaders brings excellent returns. This is due to an increasing awareness of the difference that highly effective leadership behaviour makes to organisational performance. Our coaching provides powerful developmental experience for leaders who experience a set of powerful cognitive & emotional pressures.

These pressures include:

Operating in high stakes environments with high expectations.
Being ‘in role’ all day, every day.
Presenting a controlled, professional mask.
Leading & influencing in turbulent times.

Coaching can help all leaders who choose to take ownership for improving individual & team performance.

We coach C-suite, senior leaders and teams
for a range of reasons, including:

To face into a challenging period or strategic organisational task
To seek help in their struggles with anxiety, overload or stress at work
To elevate personal performance
To leverage a confidential ‘thought partner’
To lead in a matrix environment
To repair relational dynamics with key stakeholders
To clarify &/or accelerate career goals
To maximise the first 100 days in a new role
To develop team leadership capabilities
To improve relationships & build networks
To increase emotional & social intelligences

Organisational pressures are being felt by individuals across all functions, at all levels, right to the top of organisations. Executive coaching aims to help business leaders become more effective, confident and fulfilled in their roles, generating clear and tangible business benefits.

Why Coaching?

Organisations are a set of complex relationships involving internal clients, external customers and a network of other equally important stakeholders.

Executive coaching is one of the key approaches through which senior leadership in complex organisations is being developed and accelerated.

Coaching is relational a process, providing timely support for specific workplace challenges as well as development opportunities in complex and often disparate working environments.

Through our coaching programmes, we support many organisations to develop a positive coaching culture.

Our Coaches use a wide range of best practice interventions to provide senior leaders with a practical and rich environment in which to reflect and formulate practical action plans for personal transformation.

“Working with Paula has been a genuinely transformational experience, she has challenged existing patterns, opened my eyes to new ways of looking at myself and encouraged my curiosity.”

Head of Downstream Procurement