How I can help
I offer one-to-one coaching sessions on your premises or over the phone, using careful and well-aimed questions and insights to help people improve performance. The focus of each coaching assignment depending on the change each individual needs to create. It’s inspiring and affirmative, and each person makes his or her own progress.
Positive collaboration between your managers and individual staff allows the coaching goals to align with your strategic plan. It works at all levels of the organisation, from the top down, and is a powerful route to results.
But isn’t that what project and line managers do?
Many do, but success rates vary. Managers can find it hard to stay objective, and the individual being coached might not want to speak openly. That can be hugely demotivating for all. Research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development shows that working with an external coach is far more effective.
A Chartered Management Institute survey also shows that your best staff can be 2½ times more productive than your worst staff – purely through stronger commitment and job involvement. By providing on the spot, tailor-made interventions not only will you support better performance in all your staff, but you will also retain your highest performers.
I work with any business or organisation wanting to foster positive change in their people, but have particular experience of the environment and wildlife sector and the media and creative industries. My work as a programme maker in the BBC and for independent companies spanned 20 years and I am familiar with the pressures and challenges of working in the media. If this is your world, I understand it from the inside out. I can help you and your people maximise your creativity, meet tight time schedules and budgetary requirements, and get results where they matter — the quality of your output.
Please contact me to book a free initial consultation or find out more.
“Coaching has helped us improve our communication and efficiency and we’ve been able to maximise the value of the people we’ve taken on over the years, helping them to grow with us, in what is a highly volatile industry.”
Andrew Jackson, Managing Director, Tigress Productions
“What a lot of our managers lacked was the ability to get the best out of their teams and that was where coaching has fitted in.”
Steve Millbank, Personnel Manager — Learning and Development, John Lewis Partnership.