Boost your career ! ……….. Perform at your best ! ……….. Achieve much more! ……….
How much are you feeling satisfied in your work? Could you use some support to develop or reboot your career? Do you need to improve your skills or performance in some areas?
Of course, there’s no one way to achieve fulfilment and professional success in life – we all have different personalities, aptitudes, values and aspirations! But using a friendly and supportive coach, who can provide extra perspective and practical guidance, can work wonders.
We provide 1:1 mentoring and coaching. Based on actual, real-world management experience!
We help professional people to develop their skills and performance in their job and career. So that they can achieve the results, satisfaction, and personal growth they want in their work lives.
Our senior partner, Mike Owen, focusses in this area, bringing 25+ years’ broad business and organisational experience as well as two management degrees and wide experience in individual development and performance coaching / mentoring.
Career support mentoring and coaching
Do you perhaps feel stuck in your current job or career? Do you feel burned-out or stressed? Do you need to boost your job performance, perhaps to gain a promotion? Could you do with some perspective or support to switch from from one job or career stage to another? These are just the types of career issues we can assist with.
The foundation of our support is helping you to gain excellent ‘self-insight’. This is about really knowing yourself and what you want in your life and career. Key aspects include knowing your personality, strengths/weaknesses, key values/beliefs, main likes/dislikes, and key aspirations..
Then we work closely with to help you think about and clarify your feelings and future aims; explore options and strategies; find and seize suitable opportunities; develop enhanced or new skills needed; and help boost your confidence, positivity and resilience for the future.
Support can range from honing your CV and interview skills to identifying suitable potential employers, networking opportunities and support resources. So you’ll be ready to hit your next career ‘high’ in no time!
Core performance skills we can help with:
Performing well in any role needs a range of core’ qualities and skills, supported by useful practices/habits. We offer coaching and mentoring support in the following areas:
Mindset: for example, a learning/growing mindset; positive outlook; open-minded, curiosity, self-confidence, passion and integrity.
Self-management: including control over thoughts/emotions; focus; drive/energy; persistence; courage; adaptability; patience; willpower and time-management.
Relational & team skills: including listening; empathy; team motivation; collaboration; and influencing.
Thinking skills: for example, critical thinking; creative thinking; using your unconscious brain; strategic thinking; decision-making and problem-solving.
We’ll design a tailored coaching program to develop the specific skills you want to focus on. A program of hourly sessions over a number of weeks is usually best – either online or in-person – to suit your availability. We use a range of methods, including self-reflection, mental models, guided practice, discussion and feedback. We also help you plan how best to embed and reinforce ongoing performance.
Mini-training courses on ley ‘thinking skills’: our specialist focus!
Alongside tailored individual coaching, we offer short ‘teaching’ webinars on selected thinking skills and issues, based partly on Mike’s extensive writing and consulting. Lasting just a few hours, run as either two short online sessions or a half-day meeting, they combine a briefing presentation on the subject with follow-on questions and discussion.
Our portfolio of topics includes, for example the following. Sessions can be fine-tuned to suit each client.
- How to be good at strategic thinking: the 9 skills and 4 mindsets that are key
- Leadership blindness: how leaders can avoid failing to spot what’s happening around them
- Using groups for decision-making: the key risks and challenges and how to deal with them
- What it means to be an independent thinker: the key qualities and skills needed.
- 20 ways for leaders to make disagreements more productive and valuable in their organisation
Performance coaching for particular challenges and situations
As well as specific skills coaching, we offer tailored coaching to help you handle particular professional or leadership challenges with greater skill and confidence. Situations could range from relatively simple scenarios like delivering a big presentation at a Board meeting to the more complicated challenge of how to re-energise a team suffering low morale.
Our typical coaching approach follows a ‘solutions-focused‘ process, which includes looking at the current situation; defining what improved state or goals are wanted; exploring your feelings and abilities around the situation; and then discussing what overall solution and actions by you will achieve the better results you want.
Our approach has many distinctive benefits: it inspires and empowers you because you focus on the future rather dwelling on your past difficulties; it looks at the context of the situation and so solves problems more fully and practically; and it aims to leverage your current skills and strengths. Of course, as part of our approach, we’re also there to help you manage your mindset and motivation.
Coaching in small group workshops
For employers who perhaps have a number of staff with similar learning or coaching needs, we can offer tailored ‘group’ programmes, running over several sessions. We use carefully-designed and delivered workshops lasting typically up to about a couple of hours each. Groups are usually limited up to half a dozen people, so each session can enable everyone to have some 1:1 coaching support as well opportunity to share and discuss experiences and challenges together with colleagues.
FREE, initial ‘discovery’ consultation
The overall aim with our development and performance coaching is to help our clients elevate their levels of confidence, skill, effectiveness and fulfilment in what they do.
What specific performance issues are on your mind ?
As a first step, we suggest a no-cost, totally confidential 1:1 chat with Mike. Either online or by phone. Tell him what’s on your mind and discover some ideas/proposals about how he could assist.
Phone us on 01994 278118 or fill in the Contact page on this website.