1:1 Executive Coaching

We will kick-off with an initial conversation to get to know each other better, understand the request for coaching and your motivation, together with your high-level goals. As each partnership is different, we will design the next steps according to your needs. You will be invited to do some further self-reflection, and possibly take psychometric assessments and 360 leadership feedback. We can also involve organisational sponsors to align together on the broad direction of travel, share mutual expectations, establish ongoing support, partnership and accountability.

You will receive a personalised executive report with insights into your strengths, development areas and how your personality helps or hinders in developing leadership competence. The detailed feedback session will help raise your self-awareness, understand what traits you display when you’re at their best and how you might derail in times of stress or unusual conditions, your reputation and potential impact on others. We use robust psychometrics assessments like Hogan Assessments and NEO Primary Colours® of Leadership.

You will receive personalised feedback from Senior colleagues, Peers, Team members and significant stakeholders. The Primary Colours of Leadership 360° report (sample) provides behavioural insights into your preferred leadership styles and temperament, top strengths and development areas, suggestions on how you can increase your leadership effectiveness. In the process, you will be able to benchmark your effectiveness against a significant global norm group of senior leaders.

Taking into account your unique context, personality and leadership effectiveness, we will co-create a personalised coaching plan. This will cover clear focus areas, criteria for success, resources needed, roles and responsibilities. A final version can be discussed and agreed in a three-way together with your business sponsor.

We will design and implement a clear strategy on how others can support you in implementing the coaching plan. Business sponsors, team members and significant stakeholders can contribute in different ways, for example through offering direct feedback, resources, observations, mentoring, holding accountability and more.

We will have a series of 60-90 minutes coaching sessions focused on specific outcomes. Coaching is a conversation that is supportive and challenging, in which the person feels heard and knows things at the end that they did not know at the beginning that will make a tangible difference to what they do or feel or think. As your coach, I work alongside yourself as a thinking partner, holding a safe and confidential space for you to think through your questions and gain new insights, so that you can move forward into action with clarity and confidence. Our work is focused on who you are as a whole person, as a unique individual, equipping you with the resources and confidence to adequately respond to the present and emerging challenges in your organisation.

We take time together to review progress against your personal coaching plan. This can involve reflection on practice, integration of learning, processing challenging experiences, celebrating progress and milestones. The purpose of this is to maintain focus and motivation, and drive accountability.

We constantly re-contract, pivot and adjust based on what is actually happening and emerging in your reality and context. This ensures that your coaching plan evolves and refines over time.

We evaluate the effectiveness of the overall programme in two main ways: (1) evaluation conversation with yourself and your business sponsor to assess satisfaction and achievement of expected outcomes, (2) based on the results of the 360° re-take to compare behavioural assessment from before & after the programme.