In your initial coaching we
may have worked out a business and personal development plan
to address your specific needs. This might include action
steps as well as skills development. As coaching continues
we work collaboratively so that you can monitor, assess and
make necessary adjustments to your plan to ensure it is
taking you where you want to be and achieving your goals
efficiently and effectively.
This coaching concentrates
on developing communication and relationship skills with
staff, clients and business partners.
You can develop more
self-awareness about how you interact with others in work
relationships, about your communication style in
presentations, negotiations and meetings. You choose what
aspects of your style you want to improve, change and
develop and we work together in a challenging and supportive
relationship as you achieve your objectives.
You may decide to develop
your skills in a particular area, and want a one-to-one
confidential assessment on skill areas you would like to
improve. This involves face-to-face coaching at your
workplace, where I can shadow and observe you in activities
such as meetings, presentations and the way you hire and
communicate with staff. This is followed by a constructive
feedback session after which where you work out a
development plan. This might include reading professional
literature, attending training courses, or other learning to
develop skills within a specific time frame. You might
decide you want to work on various business skills, and in
this case I can recommend other specialist coaches and
consultants, for example on financial aspects of running
your business. We meet regularly over an agreed period of
time, typically six to twelve months, and assess progress,
overcome blocks and support development.
Some coaches will tell you
they work with successful people to achieve goals in the
future, whilst therapists focus on the past. This is no
longer true of many modern therapeutic ways of working. My
aim is to work with you as you explore more helpful and
productive ways of dealing with aspects of your life that
are blocking you, and open up more choices for living more
resourcefully in various areas of your life.
Things happen to people.
All of us from time to time come up against blocks in the
way we deal with or feel about certain events, situations or
certain relationships. We get married, get divorced, suffer
bereavement, become obsessive, develop phobias, get
depressed or anxious - all aspects of being a normal human
being.
Working with a coach who is
also a qualified psychotherapist means you can work with one
person on issues that affect all parts of your life. Our
coaching and / or therapeutic relationship is an intimate
professional relationship built on trust and total
confidentiality, where you are free to work on any issue
that affects the way you are and the way you behave in your
professional and private life. Occasionally, for example if
you are going through divorce, that aspect of your life will
affect the way you are and the way you act in every other
aspect. Instead of splitting your life into compartments, we
work to integrate all aspects and see how the whole is
affected by the parts, working on whatever you want to
change. See Integral Focus.
Redundancy
can
bring its own particular issues. Many companies provide all
kinds of support for their staff in preparation for
redundancy, often in skills areas such as job applications
and searches and the like. The emotional fallout after
redundancy often leaves people deskilled in personal areas
of their lives. Relationships and marriages fail, and career
choices are made out of desperation rather than desire, from
a place of vulnerability instead of strength. Therapeutic
coaching builds emotional strength and skills to work
through this period of change in a more resourceful way and
help implement choices that will be beneficial and fulfil
the person's real needs and wishes and fit their individual
personality within a realistic framework.
In some cases we may agree
that certain issues in your life are areas that you would
like to work outside, and parallel to, the framework of our
particular coaching or therapeutic work. In these cases I
will be able to refer from a trusted network to other
professionals or organisations who specialise in certain
areas, such as addictions.
