what we do

the solutions we create

We shine a light on behaviours and thinking patterns that may have served our clients well in the past, but which are not useful now, or are even counter-productive in the workplace – and we help them create productive options. With us they achieve new performance levels by discovering who they are and by creating new ways of being.

Our holistic approach goes beyond what’s apparent at first sight. We look for the deep-seated drivers that dictate behaviour, the passions that bring fulfilment, and the talents that stimulate high-quality performance.

We deliver our services through one-to-one coaching, workshops and facilitation in the following areas:

Authentic leadership: accelerating effectiveness, stimulating higher levels of performance, building confidence and impact and invigorating teams.

Career development: Re-energising careers, finding meaning at work, and managing career transition points, including First 100 Days.

Mediation coaching: Creating new routes to resolving conflict and to crossing cultural boundaries.

Vision and strategy development: Creating direction and focus and fulfilling an action plan to get there.

Resilience: Building personal resources for resilience in self and others. For workshops coming soon click here

Transition: Managing oneself and others at times of change.

The services we provide

Executive coaching

The executives and senior managers we work with want to deliver more. They know there’s something in them that has yet to be released and they’ve had enough of not quite getting there.

Executive coaching is the most effective way known for executives and senior managers to create a sustainable step change in their performance.

Team transition

Times of change can feel turbulent and unsettling. Not only can team members feel they’ve lost something important, even fundamental, but it’s not clear what they can bring to – and create out of – the new situation, how new relationships will work, or even what’s expected of them.

Leadership development and career development programmes

Our programmes, blending workshops with coaching, facilitate clients to build their leadership capacity, particularly in challenging contexts, and to develop their careers so as to make the most of their strengths and their passions, and to find meaning in their work. Senior Specialist Registrars and newly-qualified consultants at University College Hospital London on our highly successful programmes ‘Getting to Grips with the NHS’ and ‘Managing and Leading in the NHS’ maximise their effectiveness as clinicians, build their leadership capability, develop their services to their full potential, and become more confident in taking responsibility and control over their career direction (see http://www.hsj.co.uk/resource-centre/best-practice/galvanising-the-future-of-clinical-leadership/5015685.article). These programmes are designed, developed and delivered through partnership with our colleagues in ANKLe (A New Kind of Leadership).

Coaching skills for career conversations

In collaboration with Coaching to Solutions we offer two programmes to equip those who career coach with the skills to do so with confidence. The four-day programme ‘Career Coaching for Changing Times’ is designed for those new to career coaching. The two-day programme ‘Career Coaching for Resilience’ is for those who have established coaching skills but want to add career coaching capability to their repertoire. Both programmes are endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management. Please contact us for further details.

Coaching Matrix

A Coaching Matrix works particularly well in supporting the leadership development of high potentials, or in bringing together influential players across an organisation.

It consists of a series of facilitated group sessions, which are blended into the individual coaching programmes of selected participants. These shared conversations encourage themes to emerge, decisions to be considered and actions to be taken.

The group sessions enable the capturing of invaluable organisational intelligence that would otherwise be lost, whilst enhancing the organisation’s capacity to learn and develop itself. At the same time each person being coached is exposed to group working in a way that actively contributes to their own development.

The benefits of the Coaching Matrix include:

Random impact within the organisation becomes an effective and influential process that makes a difference in the areas which really matter.

Disconnected individual learning becomes integrated learning through increased feedback into the organisation.

Inconsistent organisational sponsorship becomes an explicit engagement with the coaching programme and the changes that emerge from it.

Erratic evaluation of the organisational impact becomes a tracking of progress that is intrinsic to the coaching programme itself.

Coaching sessions with limited relevance to the organisation’s priorities becomes coaching where individual agendas are pursued within the parameters of a clearly defined organisational strategy.

Isolated 1-to-1 conversations become integrated into a group process where clients exercise influence, gain insight into group dynamics, experiment with new behaviours and deepen their understanding of their work “system.”

Unsustainable outcomes become long-term changes of behaviour that drive ongoing development.

See more about Matrix by downloading the Matrix flyer .