Coaching Outcomes

Whether you are already achieving success in your life and career or are currently confronted with challenge, Coaching can help you to move closer to your full potential.

Much more than just a personal cheerleader, a skilled Coach can help you to plan and implement effective strategies to:

 discover and align with your personal valuesestablish and move towards well structured and compelling goalsproactively respond to personal and professional changeidentify and maximise your most productive areasmanage stress effectivelycommunicate more skillfullyaddress and improve upon weak spotsresolve conflict and disharmonydevelop creativity and problem-solving skillsrecover resourcefully from setbacks

"I think I'm already doing pretty well so why would I need a coach?"

No matter how successful you already are you can probably still improve. Even the most experienced, skilled and self-aware people still have their own 'blind spots' and a Coach can offer the one thing you can't provide for yourself - an objective perspective, on you, from the outside. Even top chess Grandmasters competing at a world-class level have a team of 'seconds' whose job it is to provide analysis, perspectives and options that might not be apparent to the player seated at the board.

"For someone to coach me on my career don't they need to understand my business?"

Maybe - maybe not. Whilst an understanding of business is certainly an asset in understanding the cultures that coaching clients operate in, there is such a thing as too much information. If I shared an intimate knowledge of the ins-and-outs of your particular sector it is very possible that I would already be subscribing to many of the beliefs, prejudices (in the nicest possible sense), norms and habitual behaviours of your sector. Such conventions may be the very things that are limiting you and preventing you from seeing the forest for the trees. A perceptive coach with no emotional attachment to or familiarity with such concepts may be best placed to gently challenge them and help you obtain a fresh perspective.

The legend of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot may be apposite in this context. It was prophesied that whoever freed the sacred ox-cart of Gordias, which had been tethered with a fiendishly complicated knot, would become king of Asia. Many had striven in vain to unravel the unyielding binding and it was believed to be impossible. Alexander arrived, with one stroke of his sword sliced the knot apart and went on to conquer Asia. Because he had not been seduced by the pervading idea that the knot had to be untied  he was able to take bold, clear-sighted and effective action.

Coaching Outcomes offers a number of different coaching options to suit your needs:

- a one-off, Single Issue Focus Session may be all you need to get clarity and movement on a particular issue. This can either be conducted in person or via telephone or online

- a Gold Coaching Package offers three 45 minute telephone or online sessions per month

- the Silver Coaching Package offers two 45 sessions per month