What is coaching?

Coaching is now employed as one of the most effective leadership styles and tools for management.

Coaching aligns with a principle of continuous professional and personal development. In business internationally, it is now an accepted form of development with high return on investment. It acts as a powerhouse to identify areas for development, set goals and stay motivated to achieve them.

Coaching is a one to one relationship and usually lasts for 6 – 12 sessions over an extended period of time (e.g. 3-6 months). Usually meetings are face to face, but coaching can be conducted over the telephone or online.

A coach is not an expert who will fix your problems, rather they are experienced in facilitation processes tailored to your individual style of learning.

When is coaching helpful?

When people get to the top of their field, it can be hard to ask for help as it often hooks into our personal myths around weakness or fears of inadequacy.

Leaders need to be visionary and grounded, able to steer the organisation through continual change, whilst encouraging and motivating their teams. It can be hard to continually balance inspiration with humility, and the challenge is to stay consistent. Honest and open feedback so essential to peak performance can sometime be hard to solicit.

Our Executive Coaching provides a valuable space to build self awareness practices and develop reflective skills which enable leaders to continue to top up their leadership potential and positively impact the business.

Executive Coaching is an excellent and confidential way for leaders and senior managers to develop the business by focusing on their leadership development and communication skills. Leaderís benefit from the confidentiality and honesty of this positive relationship where the coach listens, motivates, supports and challenges them.

Wholeheart Works Approach to Coaching

A Wholeheart Coach will work to help you:

Envision
Define your long term development goals for success

Commit
Create key agreements for how we will work and explore ways to help you commit yourself. You will identify areas where you specifically want feedback and we will reach agreements on how we will do this.

Discover Resources
Identify what’s currently working well to build a firm foundation from which to grow.

Investigate & Consolidate
Explore solutions, investigate steps and consolidate specific and time bound action plans.

Identify Contingencies
Consider potential obstacles which might block success and scenario plan possible actions for dealing with these.

Challenge
Our coaching offers a safe environment to reality check and challenge behaviours and thinking which sabotages your best intentions.

Support
To coach is to help move someone from one place to another. Our agenda is to help you manifest your goals and unlock your fullest potential. We will offer you positive encouragement and constructive feedback to help you develop.

Review
Review how things are working for you both in your plans and in how the coaching partnership is working for you.

Open Communication
We work hard to be authentic and to practice with integrity. This means we won’t tell you want we think you want to hear, we aim to encourage and role model, honest skilful communication practice.