Leadership Coaching
My coaching offer comes from more than 20 years coaching experience working with leaders and executives in global organisations,. taking best practice from coaching professionals across the world and delivering support to clients in the context of real and practical business experience.
Leaders who get coaching make better decisions, have great relationships with customers and create a positive work environment attracting and retaining the best people to your organisation. Ultimately coaching has been shown to have a significant positive impact on business profitability and growth.
Since you’ve found this page, you have probably realised that you need a coach as it means propelling yourself towards becoming a better leader.
Maybe you are looking for support on tactical problem solving, or immediate help with leadership decisions. Perhaps you need to develop your leadership capabilities to form new ways of thinking and acting in future situations. Or maybe you want to develop skills and habits of self-reflection and self awareness. You need leadership coaching designed around the individual business leader and the needs of the business.
A lot of business leaders need a sounding board. The right coach will recognise and point out exactly what needs to be addressed. All ideas are welcome, all judgment aside. A leadership coach acts as a filter, directing and guiding those ideas to be productive for you and your business.
Even the best of us exhibit behaviours that are less than useful. A leadership coach holds you accountable to your goals, giving you strategies to get there, and keeps you honest. Goals are supposed to be met!
So whether you want to enhance executive strengths, build the key competencies needed to achieve strategic business objectives, have more focus, manage stress, and make better decisions we can help…
IT IS BECOMING AN ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT THAT CANDIDATES FOR SENIOR POSITIONS HAVE DEMOSTRATED THEIR ABILITY TO GROW AS LEADERS THROUGH COACHING. CONSIDER, HOW MUCH YOU COULD GROW AS A LEADER, AND THE SIGNIFICANT BENEFITS IN BOTTOM LINE PERFORMANCE BY IMPROVING THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE AND CREATE.
What Does Leadership Coaching Include?
WE CAN HELP with…
- Career Coaching
- Group Coaching and Team Building
- Performance Coaching
- New Leader/Onboarding or Transition Coaching
- High-Potential or Developmental Coaching
- 360 Debriefing and Development Planning
- Targeted Behavioural Coaching
- Succession Coaching
- Presentation/Communication Skills Coaching
- Personal/Life Coaching
- Sales and Business Development Coaching
- Non-Executive Board Role Coaching
The Coaching Process
HOW IT WORKS
All of our coaching engagements are designed around the individual business leader (coachee) and the needs of the business (client) and includes*:
- pre-coaching needs analysis, data gathering and planning
- contracting including goal setting and agreed coaching plan
- coaching plan implementation
- measuring and reporting progress and outcomes
- transition to ongoing development.
Our coaching practice is rooted in the principle of partnership between the organisation, the business leader being coached and the coach. Subject to the individual requirements, Other Partners may include: the executive’s manager; senior management; Human Resource; peers, including strategic business partners from other organizations; direct reports; other key people in the executive’s life.
Coaching is focussed on enhancing the executive’s strengths and building the key competencies needed to achieve strategic business objectives.
The Sapient process may include use of the following practices and methods:
- problem solving and planning
- rehearsal (role play)
- on-the-job practice and observation
- feedback (peer and 360)
- goal setting
- dialogue
- clarification of roles, assumptions, and priorities
- teaching and applying a range of management and leadership tools
- referral to other resources.
Our successful coaching partnership is guided by ethical guidelines, and proven practices that maintain the welfare of the executive and co-workers.
*(From Robert Witherspoon and Randall P. White, Four Essential Ways that Coaching Can Help Executives, Center for Creative Leadership, 1997.)
For Your Business…
By inspiring leaders and giving them confidence to come up with new ideas and encourage innovation to their approach to business they will develop innovative solutions to problems, creation of new products and services, and new approaches to customer solutions. Coaching creates the environment to achieve transformational change.
Coaching helps business leaders make better decisions and make the right choices for the benefit of the business. Leadership coaching from C2Sapient will provide individuals with the skills and guidance to capture opportunity to develop their people, increase revenue, reduce costs and transform customer service, ultimately helping to grow the business.
it helps build a better work environment. Good people won’t leave the company for no reason but they will leave bad leaders. Developing leaders in your business that inspire and motivate, improves morale and attracts the best people. Engaged employees are more likely to go above and beyond for the business if their leaders are confident and can communicate and engage with their people in away that inspires loyalty and respect.
For the Coachee..
Our programme will inspire and motivate you as a leader developing strength in self-confidence, assertiveness and personal well-being.
Leadership Coaching instils confidence and develops approaches and techniques to address business issues and leadership challenges. A programme tailored to the coachee will always cover the core leadership competences to create, communicate and collaborate and also target specific areas of development such as:
- Develop your own leadership style and personal brand
- Improve interpersonal and conversation skills to connect and better engage with customers and your team
- Help to accelerate your own career development and progression
- Develop techniques to prioritise and manage workload and achieve worklife balance
- Enhance your presentation, conversation, and networking skills
- Learn how to have difficult and important conversations
- Strategies for attracting, developing and retaining your best people
Want Leadership Coaching To Grow Your Business?
FIND AN EXPERIENCED BUSINESS COACH with…
Practical experience using seven principles for executive coaching: systems perspective, results orientation, business focus, partnership, competence, integrity, and judgment.
Understanding the context of organisations, organisational structures, business models, systems, processes, and how to assess all of these elements of the organisation. Along with extensive inside knowledge of regulated businesses, public sector and IT sectors.
Knowledge of theory, research, and practice in the field of leadership and executive coaching with goal alignment that delivers long term tangible results.
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
TESTIMONIALS
‘Steve was both inspirational and supportive; providing pragmatic seasoned direction, allowing me freedom and space to develop my own approaches and always ready to offer innovative advice at key moments… our team’s business performance was consistently successful and personally I have developed significantly through his coaching and mentoring.’
‘I received the benefit from Steve’s leadership coaching that allowed myself to grow from running a single client contract to holding the position of client director for the North of England. Steve has a vast number of years of experience across a number of business sectors, and uses this knowledge to nurture and develop excellent senior business relationships’.
‘Steve has the art of getting things done. In a world of barriers, politics and constraints, Steve cuts through it all. His drive in this regard created the space for his team to achieve results. Steve is an outstanding coach. Patient, understanding and challenging to his colleagues and team. He created and nurtured a special team that achieved, and then achieved even more than they thought possible.’
About Your New Partner
STEVE EDWARDS
A practitioner coach with a track record of delivering organisation change and business transformation, operating at board level with a focus on commercial and client leadership of significant capital investment programmes and business development initiatives.
As a trusted advisor to board level executives I have demonstrated an innovative approach to commercial and organisation challenges with 15 years experience of corporate governance and risk management.
40 years experience in the Telcommunications Industry with more than 25 years executive and senior management experience spent helping people and organisations through performance improvement and transformational change.
I have a passion and a record of achievement in creating new business units and recruiting and developing highly effective teams. I do this with a focus on people and by recruiting, developing and coaching diverse teams.
I have knowledge of how different types of businesses work, their functional areas, business models, and industry knowledge along with detailed understanding of the IT and telecommunications industries.
A specialist in business relationships; through my focus on the client and a commitment to building long term productive relationships, I have created partnerships which continue to benefit both my clients and my host business. I am have a track record of achievement in dispute resolution at CxO level and with businesses in both private and public sector.
New clients are accepted on an application-only basis to determine whether they are positioned for growth and ready to take their business to the next level with our leadership coaching.
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