Coaching in the Workplace
Coaching in the workplace is a valuable tool for effective leadership, supporting organisational culture, and creating a collaborative working environment with increased engagement and employee satisfaction.
It provides a secure and supportive space in which to discuss work-related issues that might be impacting on professional goals and wellbeing and hindering performance and career success.
Sessions allow the individual the time and space to focus on the goals that matter to them, and their organisation, and to discuss strategies for success. Using psychological frameworks, we can tap into individual resources to achieve desired outcomes.
Issues that arise in coaching sessions might include confidence, interpersonal style, organisational politics, issue selling, strategy design and team dynamics. It is a challenging yet stimulating exchange that is pragmatic and empowering, and based on effective coaching principles, and empirically tested research.
Team Coaching
This form of coaching uses both a group setting and one-on-one meetings and requires a minimum of three sessions to work through issues that arise. It helps groups to achieve goals through collaboration, communication, and collective problem-solving.
In the group session, organisational goals and individual values are aligned, individual workplace preferences are highlighted, and organisational challenges are discussed. Strategies are formed, and skills developed, to foster open communication, promoting trust and teamwork.
In the individual sessions, employees confidentially discuss any concerns, conflicts and aspirations, work through potential scenarios and solutions, and return to the group with renewed clarity and focus. Coaching will help to manage stress and professional anxiety and build resilience through an action plan designed for both the individual and the group.
Executive and Leadership Coaching
Executive coaching is for business leaders who want to direct and inspire their teams more successfully. Managers learn about reaching team goals, motivating team members, resolving conflicts, and delegating tasks. It supports strategic thinking, decision making, communication, and interpersonal skills, allowing the coachee to fully work through their perceived weaknesses, in a confidential environment, whilst also devising strategies to overcome these barriers.
With an MSc in occupational psychology, I draw on coaching models and psychological frameworks to fully stretch my clients to enable them to step up and into their role effectively. I conduct robust and stimulating coaching sessions with board members and executives at all levels. My background in both the corporate world and documentary film making means that I have collaborated with and interviewed politicians, academics, creative visionaries and business leaders, and am able to form deep connections with engaged conversation that is both challenging and rewarding.