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Executive Coaching

What Is Executive Coaching?

Coaching is a series of conversations structured to facilitate personal development and professional growth.

But what does that mean in practice? What does an executive coach actually do?

A coach listens, engages, asks questions and encourages clients to achieve specific and measurable goals. An effective coach gives direct feedback to clients when appropriate.

Through effective coaching, clients find their own solutions, develop their own skills, change their own behaviours and improve their own attitudes.

What Our Clients Say

“I learned how to assert myself more positively, how to prioritize the importance of tasks, and how to step back from the job to gain perspective on what is really needed. Today, I act with more confidence and sovereignty. These results help me to do my job better and deliver results."

“David is a fantastic coach! My experience with David has been very productive and insightful. I come away from every session with a greater appreciation and confidence of my skills and my potential and a new sense of motivation and drive. We have worked on a number of things together – presentation skills, leadership, interpersonal savvy – and he has a talent for making it fun, interesting and very fulfilling. His way of asking just the right questions and choosing the appropriate exercises allows me to discover many of the solutions or answers within myself."

“David has been a great help. He asks direct, thoughtful questions that resonate after the sessions as much as during. I think he has a good natural feeling for my issues. The sessions have gone way beyond the areas I had imagined - in a very positive way."

How Coaching Works

Once an organisation has decided to use coaching, the coach, the client and the sponsor work together through a clear and structured process.

Coach-Sponsor Conference

Together, the coach and the sponsor will agree the focus and duration of the programme and measurable, tangible goals for the coaching engagement.

Coach-Client Sessions

In the first session the coach and the client will confirm goals for the programme and discuss areas for exploration over the course of the engagement. The coach and the client will then meet for regular, face-to-face sessions that last about an hour each.

Review

After half of the agreed coaching sessions are completed - and again at the end of the coaching programme - the client and the coach will complete a review exercise to assess progress and determine next steps. This review is shared with the sponsor and client organisation.

Feedback

Feedback - both to the client and the organisation - is an essential component of the coaching programme. Feedback helps the client ensure steady progress toward goals. Total Awareness Coaching provides feedback in a manner that generates positive change.

Confidentiality

The coaching relationship is based upon trust. The content of coaching sessions is kept strictly between the client and the coach. The only exceptions to this rule are if the client discloses information to the coach that suggests the client may commit or has committed a criminal offence or a major breach of the organisation's code of conduct.

To learn more about Total Awareness Coaching, please follow these links to explore this site. To discuss coaching in greater detail, or to arrange a meeting with one of our coaches, please click Contact Us.

Doubts

Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

Shakespeare

Belief

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it - even if I may not have it at the beginning."

Gandhi