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Coaching

Coaching can address a whole range of issues; what they have in common is that they are about you as a person, rather than just about your business or your job – which would be consulting.

We are happy to wear both hats, which is a fairly unusual combination, so we can address issues such as:

I’ve lost the energy and enthusiasm for what I do, but I’ve got to keep going..

My business has grown, and I’m not doing the job I love any more.

Work is going really well, but I’ve nothing left to give my family…

You may have personal concerns about your work and how you cope with things like handling the stress or the effect on your family – coaching can help you achieve a balance in this. Or you may feel you haven’t found yourself yet, but don’t worry, coaching is particularly valuable in helping you achieve your true potential. Here you and your work jointly may be the problem, so we help you to find a way forward on both fronts.

Our particular focus is on working with your strengths and what energises you. When your energy is directed at what you find most fulfilling, it will increase and give you power, strength, and perseverance to achieve new goals and initiatives, overcome obstacles and find creative solutions to problems.

All this is the route to achieving your true potential: when your strengths are in complete alignment with your work, then you are on that road. We use a personal strengths profile called Strengths In Focus to speed up the process of getting you there.

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Case Study: Stepping into Leadership

“Anna, you changed my life!” is a solid gold piece of feedback I received from a client. It was a change for the better, of course, and enabled them to take a very big career step – a move into the leadership role they believed they were not cut out for. They had a very traditional view of what a leader should be – authoritarian and autocratic, and I was able to give them the confidence to adopt their own collaborative style, which proved highly successful.

Case Study: Expansion Program

A seasoned professional clinician wanted to expand her department, which had traditionally been seen as the poor relation. We helped her to identify who she needed to sell to, and what the sales message would be. Selling is a foreign language in the clinical world, but the need was easily grasped, although she was doubtful about her ability to do it! We also helped her to define the structure of a business case, and by the end of all this preparation, she felt confident in presenting it. This confidence came in part from the conviction that her department could deliver far more, and in part from the knowledge that she had a really strong business case. When the time came, her words came fluently from the heart, and were convincing. She did not get all she asked for, but far more than she expected. It boosted her personal confidence, her standing in the senior team, and the work and profile of her department – no longer the poor relation!