Coaching for senior leaders and high potentials to become even better​

The Performance Equation

I am a solution-focused accredited coach, with over 20 years’ Human Resources experience, working in large corporate organisations.

I work with talented individuals to:

  • Identify (and overcome) obstacles
  • Enable more effective ways of thinking
  • Increase creativity and engagement
  • Build confidence and resilience
  • Explore strengths and leverage them
  • Identify more skilful actions to achieve better results

Through transformational coaching I enable my clients not only to find solutions to today’s problems but also to acquire new ways of thinking, being and doing.  This enables them to be more agile, adaptable and resilient, so they can also meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Coaching in Organisations

In today’s lean organisations, we need to ensure that employees and particularly senior leaders are engaged and performing at their best, in order to succeed.  Yet, a 2018 Gallup survey found a staggering 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged.

Constant change and increasing demands on our time is the reality of the modern workplace, so it is vital that high performers, who contribute so much, are enabled to perform at their best.  It is critical that they are able to maintain energy and engagement levels and build the resilience needed to sustain optimal individual and organisational performance.

Then there are the high potentials.  We recognise they have so much more to give and want to accelerate their development.  Coaching enables good people to progress to even greater achievement.  This includes identifying anything which may be holding them back from being their best and enabling them to overcome this.

More information

If you are a leader, high achiever or high potential and want to:

  • Enhance your leadership style
  • Have a confidential sounding board
  • Hit the ground running in your new role
  • Increase your impact and effectiveness
  • Accelerate your development
  • Your leadership style and its effectiveness
  • Your strengths and how to leverage them
  • Being your authentic self
  • Emotional intelligence and agility
  • Current versus desired impact
  • How to handle difficult conversations
  • Navigating through change
  • Building resilience for sustained high performance

Setting coaching up for success

To set coaching up for success, it is essential to ensure all parties are aligned before coaching starts, that the coach is the right fit and that the coaching offered is going to make a difference and achieve the desired outcomes. 

I therefore recommend that the following occurs:

  1. Coach meets client to understand requirements and business context
  2. Coach meets manager to discuss coaching requirements in detail
  3. Manager and coachee discuss coaching (if not already done so)
  4. Coach meets coachee for “Chemistry Meeting”
  5. Client Coaching Agreement is signed (only when all parties are agreed)
  6. Triad Meeting to ensure alignment on coaching goals and desired outcomes
  7. Conduct 360 interviews with key stakeholders (if appropriate)
  8. Mid-Coaching Review with coachee and manager to ensure on track
  9. End of Coaching Discussion on learnings and maintenance strategies
  10. Coaching Evaluation to measure success and achievement of goals

Coaching outcomes

Examples of actual coaching engagements and outcomes:

  • High achiever stepping up to next level
    Worked with highly talented leader to transition effectively into new role, develop greater agility in their leadership style and form an effective working relationship with a particularly challenging team member

  • High potential not achieving expected progression
    Enabled coachee to take charge of their career by identifying what they really wanted to do and how to go about achieving this.  Within 3 months the coachee had obtained a new, next level leadership position within the company, gained confidence, was highly engaged and had shifted from operational to making a strategic contribution

  • Dedicated, driven senior leader heading for burn-out
    Coachee regained confidence, well-being and engagement; developed resilience and strategies to manage themselves more effectively in a demanding work environment.  Soon after coaching ended, the coachee obtained a new, more senior position

  • Enable high performer to become even more effective
    A “people-pleaser” became aware how overdoing this particular strength was beginning to negatively impact their performance.   Coachee learned to prioritise more effectively, delegate more, maintain focus to meet deadlines and thereby deliver better results for the organisation, as well as improved well-being for themselves