Helping you to stop bumping!
With competing demands, today’s complex world of work and family life, it is always difficult to find time and space to think clearly.
One of my favourite pieces of writing — which, for me, sums up what my coaching offers — is from Winnie the Pooh:
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”
A key focus of our coaching sessions will be to find a way to stop bumping for a moment and think!
My approach to coaching
My coaching is person-centred and focuses on delivering positive outcomes for leaders and senior management teams — leading to real, sustainable, positive change for both individuals and organisations.
Some of the ways that coaching helps my clients include:
Building confidence and resilience
Accelerating career development
Optimising career shifts and return to work transitions
Attaining work-life balance
Supporting key decision-making
Improving relationships at work
Accepting and embracing change.
The value of coaching
Coaching is a partnership between the Coach and the Client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the Client to maximise personal and professional potential.
It is designed to facilitate the creation/development of personal, professional or business goals and to develop and carry out a strategy/plan for achieving those goals.
Why choose West 36?
I work with current and future leaders to help them fulfil their full potential, creating a thinking partnership that helps them:
Overcome challenges
Manage difficult relationships
Prepare their thinking for significant changes in employment status, levels of responsibility and work/life balance
Build personal confidence and self-belief
Create the thinking space to plan, strategise and take action to drive their careers
Develop their leadership skills
I love working with people from different backgrounds and stages of their career.
My coaching style has been described as relaxed, cathartic, supportive, challenging and incisive. I always approach my clients with non-judgemental curiosity and like to create a safe space for my clients to think, reflect and grow.
My Lunch and Learn skills workshops focus on allyship, networking skills and overcoming imposter syndrome.
Coaching the individual
As no two clients are the same, I always create bespoke coaching partnerships with each client, based around a typical coaching programme of:
A 30-minute exploratory chat (I call it a chemistry session) to help us understand how well we could partner in our coaching relationship.
A minimum of six coaching sessions lasting between 60 and 90 minutes. These could be virtual or face-to-face and would occur approximately every 4 weeks.
A follow up session approximately 3 months after the completion of the programme.
Ethics + values
As a member of the International Coaching Federation, I maintain the Ethics set out for Professional Coaches and adhere to the four Core Values of:
Professionalism — committing to a coaching mindset and professional quality that encompasses responsibility, respect, integrity, competence and excellence.
Collaboration — committing to develop social connections and community building.
Humanity — committing to being humane, kind, compassionate and respectful toward others.
Equity — committing to use a coaching mindset to explore and understand the needs of others so I can practice equitable processes at all times that create equality for all.