Executive Coaching
‘A thinking partner to help achieve goals, make change happen, solve problems, discover and develop new talents’
My approach involves the use of a proven technique called ‘Solution Focused Coaching’ whereby we focus on what you want (i.e. the solution) and on your strengths, as opposed to what you don’t want (i.e. the problem) and your weaknesses. This is of course just the opposite of most conventional approaches, and it works!
- ‘In 1997 a study of 31 public sector managers by Baruch College researchers Gearld Olivero, K. Denise Bane and Richard E. Kopelman found that a training program alone increased productivity 28%, but the addition of follow-up coaching to the training increased productivity 88%’
This is what coaching means for me …..
• Being a thinking partner in helping others to set and reach goals.
• Investing in relationships with others, not just the people in your workplace but contacts outside.
• Enlisting unlikely collaborators.
• Engaging people’s passions, talents and interests.
• Linking those passions with the impossible future.
• Planning s..t..r..e..t..c..h goals collaboratively.
• Listening for, not just listening to.
• Being curious.
• Checking your own assumptions.
• NOT trying to fix people. They are not broken.
• Getting people to stand in the future.
• Recognizing a teachable moment.
• Coaching is whom you are being, not a degree or certificate or series of courses you take.
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Here’s a light view (5 min short film) on a coach trying to articulate what he does. I feel a bit like him sometimes!
intangibly inarticulatable from Nic Askew on Vimeo.