We will pay an ongoing monthly fee for gym memberships to improve the condition, fitness and even outward appearance of our bodies. When we plateau, some will even pay for a gym instructor or fitness coach to get the best possible results with what we have. None of these things work if we don’t put in a commensurate effort ourselves. The gym instructor is not paid to do the exercise for you. However, when it comes to our personalities, emotions, intellect and goals, how much are we willing to invest? How do we get the best out of our minds?
Coaching is the fitness instruction of the mind. Be prepared to do the work and get a coach to help you hit your potential, or even just to get over the plateau and onto the next challenge.
I studied coaching as a result of witnessing too many people, many of whom, incidentally, had amazing bodies, fall terribly short in the spheres of personal and professional relationships; sell themselves short in terms of what they could achieve; and miss many an opportunity to realise their happiness or passions. These people would come to me for advice because, I think, they could see I was happy and grounded, and I would do my best, but studying coaching gave me the structures and toolkit to make a huge difference.
I melded what I learnt in coaching with my corporate experience and found the training invaluable in both my personal and professional lives. After years of study and practice, I can know bring all that experience through to benefit those who are willing and open to working out their minds and, sorry to use a cliché, unblocking some of their potential.
I work with a number of psychometric tools that give us a window into your learning technique, your work style and your behavioural style, before employing coaching techniques that are then tailored to you. Much of my approach leans on Socratic and dialectic/polemic styles.
I am thorough and firm; no coddling, no prisoners. Come ready.
Coaching is future facing only. I don’t care, nor need to know, how you got to where you are. There is no judgement of the past. We are only concerned with the person you want to be moving forward and what you want to achieve in the future. We explore the “what” and the “how”. Counsellors and psychotherapists take care of the past, and if that is your interest, I can recommend some people in whose safe hands you can look into the “why”.
Executive Coaching marries the strictly interrogative world of coaching with elements of mentoring and guidance. It goes beyond getting the best potential out of you as an individual and expands into how to get the best out of your colleagues and your organisation.
It is here we enter the worlds of strategy and organisational development, and integral to that are your leadership and your people.
Coaching and executive coaching can be done one to one or in facilitated group sessions.
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