Coaching.
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
– Peter Drucker
– Peter Drucker
You always thought being a leader would be much more fun. Right now, you feel stressed and overwhelmed. There’s so much pressure on you to deliver, and you are responsible for everything. Worse, you’re also feeling isolated. You can’t talk about these issues with your direct reports for obvious reasons, and your fellow executives and your boss are busy with their own workloads. You know things could be going better, and you can’t shake the suspicion that you’re getting in your own way.
It would be so great to have someone to talk to who understands the pressures you face, who can help you to figure out how to resolve your biggest challenges and recognise the invisible scripts that are holding you back.
That’s where I come in. Using evidence-based coaching practice, I support you to set your vision, decide how to achieve it, and put your plan in action. Along the way, you’ll develop greater self-confidence so you can back yourself to be the leader you aspire to be. Leadership can be less stress, more rewarding, and more fun.
As the saying goes, people don’t leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. In an increasingly competitive world, the top talent is looking for organisations that help them to flourish, where they can do their best work every day. What if the leaders in your organisation were more than just OK, they were brilliant? You would see your people achieving great things, unleashing their potential, and celebrating their successes. Vacancies in your business would be sought after by top performers because they know they can do great things with your company.
Right now, your leadership team needs help. Promoting leaders from within the business can be a great strategy, but it’s important that these professionals develop new skill sets to help them empower their direct reports to succeed.
You also need succession planning. As your business develops and grows, more of your people are going to rise to new heights, so you need to plan ahead so they are ready to take on these new challenges when the time comes.
I can develop bespoke leadership training for groups of any size, suitable for levels from new managers to experienced executives. Suggested topics could include leadership essentials, communicating with influence, leading diverse or remote teams, having difficult conversations, enhancing negotiating skills, effective time management, change management, and strategy development.
Through my 20-year+ career as an executive and senior leader spanning the public and private sectors, I’ve learned a great deal about how culture impacts organisational success. Simply put, culture is everything. Without effective organisational culture, the best-laid plan will flounder. Drawing on cutting-edge research on leadership and organisational behaviour, I can help you to create the type of organisational culture you’ve always wished you had.