Executive Coaching and Leadership Development

For you

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"I was promoted because I was good at my job, and now my job is something else.”

 

“Some of the people I manage used to be my peers.”

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"My team act like a Team of Leaders rather than a Leadership Team"

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Does this sound like you and your situation?

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Having worked within a global organisation, I have moved through these stages of becoming an expert to being thrust into a Leadership role. When the excitement of getting the role is replaced by

 

"Am I good enough?"

"Do I deserve this?"

"How will I manage a team that is dispersed across the globe and not sitting alongside me?"

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All very natural, human reactions to stepping into the great responsibility of leading people. Being responsible for their growth and development as well as your own. The need to motivate, inspire, set direction whilst providing feedback and acknowledgement.

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All of a sudden it can feel overwhelming: where do I start?

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I have had the privilege to lead teams across Scandinavia and the Middle East and Africa, a multitude of languages, cultures and customs. Where silence from Finland does not mean they are not engaged or don't agree. They will speak when they can add something to the discussion and not bother to simply repeat what others have said.

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In some cultures, people feel the need to agree with the Leader - maybe out of respect or maybe out of fear of consequence ot looking stupid. I help teams create an environment where all voices can be heard, people are open to new perspectives, and the great ideas are not left unsaid.

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I help teams create an environment where feedback and acknowledgement become natural and authentic, with the intent of helping people grow whilst also recognising the right behaviours that the team stand for to allow people to be seen,

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Through 1-1 coaching, I help people move through this transition to give them the greatest opportunity to have the biggest impact they can and to fulfil their potential.

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For you Organization

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Do I have a Team of Leaders? A room full of really talented, experienced, successful leaders - each doing a brilliant job in their own area - and still not have a genuinely effective Leadership Team?

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A Team of Leaders tends to report in

A Team of Leaders protects its own function

A Team of Leaders often ask "What do I need from this meeting?"

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Or do I want to develop a Leadership Team?

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A Leadership team that thinks together

A Leadership team that takes responsibility for the whole organisation.

A Leadership team that asks, "What does the organisation need from us?"

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What can this Leadership Team only achieve together?

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I work with teams to help them become true Leadership teams that can have honest, tough discussions in the room, not outside.

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I help teams collectively identify the behaviours that they will stand by and exhibit all the time, even when times are tough.

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I help teams see the human being around the table, not just the job titles, and create the safe, courageous space where nobody gets to be right or wrong. Where people tap into their curiosity more and wear a systems hat rather than just a functional hat.

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