Every board has one main purpose—to make and execute quality decisions.  However, even the best board can be derailed by personality clashes or inherent flaws in its system.

Leadership roles can be lonely and this pressure increases if you are new in post. This is compounded if the new appointee is rather different from the existing Board. Sometimes they will be in a minority of one, which is challenging for even the most self-confident individual. With the current emphasis on diversity and appointments that break the mould, this inevitably means that many new appointees are in a minority around the Board table.

Our mentoring coaching work with board members increasingly leads to team coaching where we offer 1:1 sessions with each member of the board before bringing them together in a team event. Typically this includes working together to share values, develop effective behaviours and agree strategic goals, helping the board to fully maximise on its collective performance.

Operating at the level that you are brings great reward but also great pressure. It can indeed be a lonely place!

Sometimes in life it’s good to get a second opinion. The opportunities for you to be challenged by others and where appropriate, gain accurate, robust and unbiased feedback/advice are extremely limited, if available at all!

One to one mentoring coaching is increasingly being recognised as the way for organisations and individuals to improve performance. Good Mentor Coaches are able to elicit and maximize inner potential through a series of sequential coaching conversations.

By improving the performance of the most influential people within the organisation, the theory goes that business results should improve. Executive coaching is often delivered by coaches operating from outside the organisation whose services are requested for an agreed duration or number of coaching sessions. With any company or organisational support in leadership development of their staff, they must have a true desire to retain and develop the Individual being mentored coached. Your company may support your mentoring coaching at work, it’s worth investigating.

Teams are the force that drives most organisations. Team Mentoring Coaching is a powerful development intervention that brings individuals together to develop their own skills, awareness and learning as a team, helping them to learn how to become more effective, efficient and focused in reaching agreed performance objectives. Our executive coaches work with your senior teams to help you build effective relationships and understand the team dynamics. For example, a team before a presentation can dramatically improve performance – as well as potential for winning the contract.

Unfortunately there is a gap between reading a book or attending a workshop and applying new information at work. Using Mentoring Coaching for Team facilitation is particularly valuable and productive. The aim of team coaching work is to enable your team to have higher quality conversations. From good conversations come good ideas, decisions and direction. While many modern organisations invest in executive coaching for individual managers and leaders, relatively few have yet grasped the full potential of team coaching. With teams rather than individuals being responsible for the delivery of most organisational goals, high-quality team coaching can have a striking and immediate impact on organisational performance.

The ability of organisations to deliver effective projects, programmes and change relies on performance at the team level – but few organisations invest in coaching for their project or programme managers.  Having the right people in the right jobs with the right skills, knowledge and experience is critical to business success. The reality is that all too often the people the business want are not available, or the skills and experience don’t exist within the organisation. And therefore, businesses must find the solution that works for them whilst maintaining project momentum.  Projects cannot live on technical abilities alone. They must also be armed with strong people skills like communicating with project sponsors, building relationships with stakeholders and clients, and leading the project team.

Our Mentors Coaches support your project managers and project teams to ensure that all stakeholders and project members are in perfect alignment, motivated and successfully plan and execute any project. We facilitate focused planning workshops during which our coaches work alongside your project manager and project team to put in place planning and execution requirements. Our support spans throughout all project phases to ensure all processes are in place and optimally functioning.