“If there was something you wanted to change in your working life, what would it be?”.

Coaching is a service we provide to people who want to change something at work, perhaps their performance, their image or their situation. For example:

• Darren is a Country Director in Asia who wants to be recognised for leading creative projects rather than for headcount reduction.
• Alison is a director frustrated at the sexist behaviour of her colleagues in board meetings
• Pierre has two years to make his mark, and this means mobilising the leadership team to address a few big challenges.

We’ve found coaching works only when you want to be coached, and right at the start we explore what's driving you. Is it a performance question? What is the boss’s feedback?

Untangling the question. Our starting point is getting what you want to change untangled and clearly expressed. This produces a defined objective for a series of coaching conversations.

Answering the question. In subsequent conversations you stretch both into your inner world (articulating your purpose or "deep intent") and into your outer world (putting energy behind your intent, deciding who to influence, experimenting with your behaviour, consolidating new habits). We challenge and support you to step up to the line.

Feedback on your impact is core to the coaching. We can gather feedback from colleagues. We can show you how you come across to us and highlight any gaps between what you are “thinking and feeling” vs “saying and doing”. We use instruments like Firo-B and Myers Briggs.

There is no fixed formula. Usually we work face to face but sometimes over the telephone. It can be one-off, or an agreed programme of 3-6 sessions of 90 minutes, typically 2-4 weeks apart with homework in between.

We also train people to develop their skills as coaches.