Leaders
“Since working with Jacqui, my team have noticed the change in me and the huge difference the coaching has had. If you get the opportunity to work with Jacqui, grab it with both hands, it will be transformational and also great fun.”
– Head of Programme Delivery, Royal Bank of Scotland
1-2-1 COACHING
What is it?
1-2-1 coaching is sometimes called executive coaching or leadership coaching. 1-2-1 coaching is a development process carried out by a qualified and accredited coach who supports you towards enhanced performance.
You are encouraged to speak the truth in a safe and confidential environment, normally away from your place of work. A relationship of trust between you and your coach is key.
1-2-1 coaching focuses on the most important aspects of your performance:
- Leadership style and impact.
- Relationships.
- Managing uncertainty.
- Taking on more responsibility.
- Creating a productive culture.
- Confidence.
- Stress management.
- Feeling in control.
How is it done?
An understanding of how to best utilise your strengths is crucial for an effective 1-2-1 coaching programme. Your programme is a bespoke insight into you as a leader. This assurance means that you benefit from all the relevant approaches that are key to your development.
The 1-2-1 coaching programme can include:
- The coach as your thinking partner. To challenge you and let you explore a different perspective.
- Filling your particular development gap.
- Promotion and/or transition into your new role.
- One-off support for a particular issue.
- Helping find the leadership style that works for your team.
- Gaining greater insight.
- Reflection and problem solving.
Benefits
1-2-1 Coaching enables you to find your own way towards effectiveness. There are common themes but experience shows that you have your own hopes, fears and aspirations. From this understanding comes a development of your own signature style of leadership.
Benefits can include:
- Enhanced confidence.
- A team-conscious leadership.
- A more engaged and happy team.
- Better and more productive relationships.
- The ability to have difficult conversations.
- More impact and influence.
- Enhanced commercial success.
GROUP COACHING
What is it?
In Group Coaching, you are given the opportunity to gain perspective from a group of people outside of your immediate team. The leaders involved can be either in the same organization or from different organisations.
You and the group work alongside a skillful facilitator to go through real business issues, sharing collective insight and experience.
How is it done?
The group is facilitated by an experienced coach who engages you within the group dynamic. Group Coaching can take place over one session or a programme of sessions.
Group Coaching includes:
- The group working together on a real life business challenge.
- An action learning approach where the group learns and solutions together.
- Tapping into the skills and expertise of all the leaders in the room.
Benefits:
Group Coaching offers community led solutions to business and leadership issues.
Benefits include:
- New networks and relationships.
- A variety of alternative perspectives.
- Learning and shared experience.
- Cost effective exposure to a highly skilled coach.
- An understanding of how to coach and learn from other leaders.
The Leader Coach Programme
What is it?
The Leader Coach Programme is a four-day workshop which empowers you and your team with a coaching style of leadership.
It is widely acknowledged that leaders who adopt a coaching style of leadership are significantly more effective than those who operate through a more directive style.
How is it done?
We keep it real and relevant. The subject matter for your programme is fully tailored, based on real themes and scenarios from your organisation. While there is a core of expert theory used in the programme, the focus is on practice with peer and facilitator feedback and personal reflection.
It’s like going to the gym. You can read all the guides in the world telling you how to keep fit, but it’s not until you actually push the weights that you become fitter and stronger. Developing a coaching style of leadership is the same. The only way to develop your skills and strengths as a ‘leader coach’ is to put theory into practice. This facilitated learning environment creates a safe and confidential space which emulates the conditions for any good coaching conversation.
The programme has four core themes:
- Conscious coaching- awareness of style, assumptions and bias.
- The skills and mind-sets of the ‘leader coach’:
Building rapport and trust, conversational styles and its uses, listening and tuning in, inquiry and generative questioning, challenge and feedback and letting go of the need to solve. - Skills for transferring ownership and responsibility to others.
- Effective coaching structure.
Benefits
A coaching style of leadership benefits your organization, you as a leader and all the individuals you interact with.
You find:
- Greater personal ownership for problem solving and personal development.
- Resilience and self-esteem.
- Enhanced action planning and accountability.
- Highly productive everyday conversations.
- More positive and productive relationships.
- Enhanced employee engagement.
- A high performance culture.
- The ability to empower those around you.
