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Developing and
retaining talent

We are passionate about creating business value by helping you to define and deliver agile talent management, development, succession planning and retention strategies to bridge skills gaps, whilst improving productivity and performance.

Executive Leadership Coaching & Mentoring

Our own research with clients points to the contribution coaching makes in helping people feel valued and having a trusted confidential space within which to explore their challenges. The investment in coaching for your leaders can improve retention of critical people enabling them to cope with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

Our coaching and mentoring services are aligned to business needs and outcomes and focused on developing the leadership capability and addressing the career aspirations of your key people.  In this way you engage your critical talent in building their future within the business and this can be key to strengthening retention.

Your senior people need to have good leadership skills to play their part in spotting, developing, nurturing and retaining your talent. The more your senior people experience good quality coaching, the more likely they are to learn the skills to become effective coaches of their own teams and deepen employee engagement.  Research shows that more junior employees, particularly millennials, respond better within a coaching culture rather than a more traditional command and control style. This approach can help you build and sustain a position as an employer of choice, attracting your fair share of talent and where employees know they can learn, grow and develop meaningful and successful careers and working lives. In turn this helps you build your employer brand distinctiveness and differentiate in a competitive talent market.

Typically, our Executive and Leadership Coaching and Mentoring work is with the key people in the organisation who are tasked to deliver the culture change and business development agenda. We also work with high potential people who may be newly professionally qualified and would benefit from mentoring as they build their people skills and future leadership capability. In this way we can work with you to ensure you are building the right talent pools and pipelines to deliver effective succession management solutions, blending the mix of new hires and developing talent in a strategic way.

We work with you to understand how coaching and mentoring support can be leveraged cost effectively in the business, meeting the specific needs of particular populations or on a more individual case by case basis.

All our coaches are highly experienced, qualified and accredited, they abide by the appropriate Code of Ethics with the Professional Coaching Bodies including the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Our coaches and mentors also maintain regular professional supervision in their practice.

Recognised Value of Executive Coaching

  • Improve business performance by creating personal stretch goals in line with corporate objectives
  • Support and accelerate personal and professional change
  • Support executives in making the transition to new roles, projects and cultures
  • Improve potential of retaining key people
  • Create a positive climate for change
  • Help manage the downside risk of change and maintain performance during periods of rapid change
  • Remove obstacles to successful change by predicting and managing personal resistance and regression
  • Promote balance and provide a stable base during periods of major organisational and career change and transition
  • Prevent the derailment of talented people in critical roles

Recognised Individual benefits of executive coaching

  • Build a firm personal foundation for self-confidence and belief
  • Develop personal vision and uncover personal values
  • Develop a professional proposition and identity and manage perceptions
  • Map and manage key stakeholder expectations and relationships
  • Think strategically and develop the complexity of thinking
  • Determine appropriate goals, objectives, strategies, tactics and action plans
  • Enhance people management and leadership skills
  • Identify personal winning strategies and how to play to strengths
  • Uncover self-sabotage, recognise repeating patterns and introduce change to interrupt habitual responses
  • Facilitate and elicit high commitment to personal change and development
  • Continue to develop mental, emotional and relational capabilities

Case Study: Architect and Business Director – Global Design and Engineering Business

Objective

To raise self-awareness, have a greater impact in leading change, develop more gravitas, and work on influencing skills and emotional intelligence.

A 9 month programme coaching this senior leader in developing greater self-awareness and understanding the impact he had on others. Supporting him in navigating a significant downsizing and change programme and ensuring he took the team with him. A focus on understanding how he was perceived and developing a clearer identity as a leader and cultivating a more empathetic leadership style. The client successfully implemented the change and retained critical talent, team morale began to improve following implementation evidenced by a 20% improvement in employee engagement levels in the team.

Our client’s feedback

“The coaching has been vital and hugely beneficial in helping me step back and make sense of the complex challenges I was facing in relation to people and resource issues. Without it I would have left the business and now I have stronger relationships within the team and wider stakeholders, my self-awareness, understanding and insight has greatly improved, my resilience is significantly increased and the experience has been nothing short of transformational.”

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