Services: Coaching
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"Working with Donla helped me find the answers and confront issues I had avoided for years. I have made big changes, with the guidance and support of Donla."
Effective Leadership
Coaching for Effective Leadership is about developing strong, influential and high performing leaders within the organisation, empowering them to communicate well, deal with conflict and other difficult situations, increase their adaptability to change and their resilience, and advance their skills and abilities to the next level.
When is it used?
Coaching for Effective Leadership supports leaders and high potential individuals at all levels of responsibility and experience who are seeking to:
- Gain a better understanding of their Leadership Style
- Develop their Interpersonal Skills and improve Communication
- Enhance their Emotional Intelligence
- Build and develop high performing Teams
- Become more change agile
- Manage demands on time with fewer resources
Benefits:
- Increase in self awareness and understanding of personal Leadership and Communication style
- Improved work relationships
- Enhanced influencing skills across the organisation
- Better managed staff
- Improved work-life balance
- Improved performance
- Better resilience
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Coaching for Interpersonal Effectiveness is about developing the influencing and communication skills crucial to maintain competitive advantage in the modern organisation.
When is it used?
Coaching for Interpersonal Effectiveness supports executives at all levels of responsibility who wish to:
- Understand different communication styles and identify their own
- Enhance their Emotional Intelligence
- Enhance their communication effectiveness
- Learn how to play a more influential part in their part of the organisation
- Establish and maintain better professional boundaries
Benefits:
- Improved understanding of communication styles
- Enhanced ability to flex personal communication style
- Increased impact both within and outside the organisation
- Improved professional boundaries
Team Functioning and Effectiveness
Team Coaching supports teams and leaders of teams to harness the power of groups for sustainable, high impact results. The coach supports the team in identifying and meeting business goals while simultaneously enjoying the journey as a team.
When is it used?
Team coaching is typically used by teams / team leaders who wish to:
- Deliver better results collaboratively
- Improve Communication and Interpersonal Skills within the team
- Better manage conflict
- Appreciate and harness the power of diversity
- Develop more effective relationships and influence both internally and externally
Benefits:
- Better understanding and use of different communication styles
- Achievement of better results
- Develops accountability and increases cohesion within the team
- Optimises the opportunities of diversity
- Develops change agility within the team
Succession Planning
Succession Planning Coaching is about developing a work culture that retains top talent and grooms leaders for the future.
When is it used?
Succession Planning Coaching is typically used by organisations that are seeking to:
- Achieve optimal performance from key employees
- Retain top talent, and ensure they are highly motivated
- Maintain a satisfactory pipeline of new leaders
- Develop the leadership qualities that the organisation requires
- Develop leaders to become more adaptive to change
Benefits:
- Leadership development and effectiveness
- Organisational strength and flexibility
- Retention of top talent
New Leadership Skills
Coaching for New Leadership Skills supports Star Performers in their new leadership roles. It is about developing motivated, committed and effective leaders who are focused on results and outcomes.
When is it used?
- Supporting the executive to achieve business and personal goals
- Enhancing strategic perspective
- Reducing stress without compromising on performance
- Working to identify and maximise the individual’s strengths and abilities in their position
- Improve team / staff performance and improve bottom-line results
- Supporting the individual in clearly defining a vision and strategies to achieve it
Benefits:
- Development of new capabilities and skills
- Enhanced emotional intelligence and Interpersonal Skills
- Enhanced commitment to and focus on making the right strategic moves
- Improved strategic perspective
- Enhanced self management
Leadership Style Challenges
Certain leadership styles can give rise to specific undesirable behaviours in the organisation, which in turn may lead to conflict and reduced performance. Coaching for leadership style challenges and supports leaders in recognising when their style may be sub-optimal and working with them to develop strategies for more effective performance.
When is it used?
- Enhancing the understanding of the impact of this behaviour
- When seeking to develop alternative more effective strategies to use
- Supporting the leader in defining a vision and strategies to achieve it
- Learning to deal with conflict in a healthy way
Benefits:
- Development of more successful communication skills
- Elimination / reduction of conflict
- Retention of otherwise valuable talent
Career Planning
Career Planning is about supporting the executive who wishes to move to the next level in their professional career.
When is it Used?
Career Planning is typically used by professionals who wish to:
- Achieve success in transitioning into a new leadership position
- Develop a long-term plan or a new direction in their career
- Advance their skills and abilities to the next level
- Reduce stress and achieve a better work-life balance
Benefits:
- Improved effectiveness and satisfaction / control
- More motivated and clearer direction
- Improved confidence and sense of purpose
- Better sense of self
- Improved work-life balance