Leadership Coaching
Why leaders benefit from coaching
While everyone can benefit from professional coaching, the unique demands of leadership make it a particularly relevant support for senior organisational stakeholders.
- Coaching can help support leaders to develop the effective self-care and coping strategies that can buffer against the stressors and other demands they can face. This can ultimately protect them against burnout.
- Coaching can support leaders as they focus on improving their health and wellbeing, considering the varied wellbeing challenges they can face.
- Reaching back into their prior experience, leaders may over-rely on strengths to navigate problems, often over-playing strengths and risking career derailment.
- Coaching can help leaders – newly-appointed and long-standing – deal with the challenges of reconciling leadership with their values and self-concept.
- Even in the best of circumstances, coaching can help leaders deal with the inherent pressures that come with leadership responsibility, decision-making and goal-attainment.
- Coaching can also provide leaders with a valuable opportunity to be vulnerable and discuss their fears and doubts, which can be almost impossible with direct reports.
- Leaders can frequently experience a sense of disconnection and loneliness due to the seniority of their position. While surrounded by others, they may feel insufficient connection with those around them and lack access to the social support more junior colleague enjoy.
What makes us different?
A few things, actually. As accredited coaching psychologists, we bring the science of psychology to life in combination with evidence-based coaching skills. It not just that we know what works, we know how and why.
We eschew one-size-fits-all solutions, fads and fashions. We use coaching methods that have the impact everyone wants. And our experience with coachees at senior levels across a range of organisational contexts globally means we’re not phased by any coaching challenge.
Our leadership coaching team have decades of experience coaching organisational leaders globally. We’ve worked with high potential leaders, supported newly-appointed leaders, coached leadership teams and prepared leaders for organisational exit. Our experience covers sectors as diverse as local government, telecoms, technology, financial services and creative studios. All of our team have post-graduate qualifications in organisational psychology in addition to evidence-based coaching skills.
“Richard brings with him a wealth of behavioural coaching experience backed by scientific psychological insight. This, combined with his understated delivery style gives him a very high level of credibility with all colleagues. He has an ability to make you think, to develop your personal awareness and take ownership for change.”
Our leadership coaching team
A sustainable approach to leadership
A free resource for you
Our white paper on Sustainable Leadership sets out the context for contemporary leadership challenges, explains our rationale for the Sustainable Leadership philosophy, and explores how practitioners and key decision-makers can introduce and improve their leadership development processes and activities.
Whether you have an established leadership development programme, or you’re just dipping your toes into leadership development for the first time, you’ll find valuable perspectives and guidance here.
Introducing coaching to your organisation?
This recording of our recent webinar on the topic of introducing coaching outlines some of the most common mistakes we see organisations make. It’s important that you:
- Have a clear rationale for why you want your leaders to work with a coach
- Understand what coaching can achieve
- Select accredited and experienced coaches to work with your leaders
- Use evidence-based coaching coaching methods
Check out the video for other common mistakes that you can easily avoid. And we’d be delighted to support you when it comes to introducing coaching in an intentional and joined-up way.
Get in touch!
We’d love to discuss your leadership coaching needs. Get in touch to schedule a chat with one of our leadership coaching psychologists to find out how we can tailor a coaching programme for your leaders.
