What is coaching?
A coach partners with an individual in a process that provokes thinking and creativity. The coach inspires the individual to exceed their ultimate potential, professionally and personally.
The coach shows the individual the way to achieve their goals through challenging current thinking, removing blockers and creating action-orientated plans for success.
Why coaching?
Investing in coaching helps businesses to:
- Optimise performance
- Retain key talent
- Improve communications
- Manage change effectively
- Enhance company culture
Optimise performance
Coaching helps to unlock true talent and skills to fill performance gaps. It enables improvement in performance and productivity.
It’s natural at times for an individual to feel stuck, as though they’ve lost their path, especially while facing challenges. Making coaching accessible for your employees will build resilience; a confidence that they can handle any challenge that comes their way. Coaching creates a path to enable the achievement of goals, boosting their performance, which in turn increases company performance.
Companies report the benefits of increased executive productivity, improvement in organisational strength, gains in customer service, enhanced relationships between peers, managers and teams, improved job satisfaction and increased retention – all great performance indicators!
Retain key talent
The competition for talent is fierce. The “great resignation” or “quiet quitting” trends post-pandemic have prompted a re-evaluation for individuals who are, now more than ever, considering what they want from their career and the options that they have available to them. These options becoming wider and far reaching given the transformation to remote working options for many.
An important element in retaining talent is providing an environment where people can flourish. They flourish by optimising their skills and capabilities and having the right behaviours to create positive impact personally and to those around them.
Investing in the individual demonstrates that they’re valuable to the organisation; they feel nurtured and this creates a positive ripple effect to those they interact with. In turn, this helps promote an inclusive culture where individuals remain in the business, feel more motivated and engaged, and model positive behaviours.
Improve communications
Embedding coaching into your business can encourage positive communications between employees. This is important for exploring innovative ideas, voicing ambitions or talking about work issues, and coaching is a valuable process that can help to identify areas for improvement in these communications. It can also encourage positive action today to avoid problems snowballing down the line, improving relationships and performance and reducing blockers to growth.
Manage change effectively
We are experiencing an unprecedented time of uncertainty and change and organisations are continuously having to adapt. Ensuring your people are equipped to manage and drive change effectively is a huge benefit and coaching helps to navigate and even use the opportunities of change to help improve performance.
Enhance workplace culture
Coaching creates an environment where people can thrive, where they feel valued and their development is nurtured, and this becomes part of the culture.
Coaching helps to motivate individuals to achieve their goals which in turn increases their effectiveness and contribution to company goals, promoting a culture of achievement and high-performance.
Coaching promotes positive behaviours (and may correct negative behaviours), which enhances day-to-day interactions and relationships, promotes inclusiveness, creativity, and decision making capabilities.
Qualified executive coach
Executive coaching is provided by Denise Thorn, a qualified Executive Coach trained in line with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) competency framework and code of ethics.
Denise has experienced many of the challenges that she coaches her clients through, which helps bring empathy, experience and perspective to the conversation. She is a busy mother of three children and has progressed her way up the corporate ladder to operate at C-Suite level as well as setting up her own successful business. She has achieved this success despite confidence issues, guilt of work-life imbalance, fears of unknown career paths, toxic workplace cultures, unhelpful thoughts and limiting beliefs.
Denise works with individuals on these concerns and also offers a structured programme to help discover themselves and their needs by defining their purpose, values and strengths and how they can optimise these to achieve their goals, overcome challenges and unlock their potential.
She has a preference for positive psychology and solutions-focused methods and uses a range of models, tools and powerful conversations to evoke awareness and instigate action, guided by the individual and their needs. By listening to what is said and, sometimes more importantly, what is not said, she will suggest a range of coaching techniques appropriate to the situation.
Denise has a particular interest in and offers a tailored coaching approach for neurodiverse individuals.
Our clients appreciate that Denise’s background in HR brings an effective business-focused dimension to her coaching, balancing individual needs with business realities. She has a genuine regard for all those she coaches, having faith in their own resourcefulness and that by shining a light on their strengths, they will find their own way.
