helping leaders and teams thrive on purpose, develop their people, and achieve greater impact.
Experience the power of one-to-one coaching to provoke new insights, inspire growth, and propel you to achieve new levels of personal and professional growth.
Discover how team coaching can support your team to think, communicate and collaborate more effectively, helping individuals thrive and transforming the work environment to one fuelled by purpose and positive energy.
Benefit from the energy, support and stretch of a group as a part of one our successful development programmes. Learning together with peers is one of the best ways to learn new skills, hold yourself accountable, as well as to better understand your unique combination of strengths and weaknesses.
Leadership Coaching
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A relationship that will help you build confidence in your authentic style ✔
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A confidential space to learn and grow ✔
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Support tuning-in and reconnecting with core values and purpose ✔
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Discipline to 'step-back' from the urgent and revisit the 'Bigger Picture' ✔
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Disrupt limiting patterns of behaviour, thinking and challenge limiting beliefs ✔
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Grow awareness of what your social / situational / systemic context needs from you ✔
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Get fast feedback to accelerate self-awarenes, identify blind-spots and improve your impact ✔
Leadership Coaching
Discover the power of leadership coaching to help you tune-in to purpose, align with core values, grow self-awareness and achieve results.
Aimed at senior leaders who depend on inspiring, developing and delegating to others to achieve their compelling purpose, we begin with a free discovery call, followed by typcially 10 x 60 - 90 minute sessions over 12 months to unleash your strengths, develop new confidence and capability, and achieve results.
Clarifying purpose and process
We begin by identifying the work that really matters, and how we can partner most creatively. Shared expectations create trust and the conditions for a powerful working relationship. And the more effective the relationship, the better the outcomes.
Encourage exploration and experimentation
Learning happens through a continuous cycle of reflection and action - through the coaching partnership we do both: access power and motivation to experiment with action, as well as raise awareness by surfacing fresh insights. This involves a careful balancing of support and challenge to open up new perspectives.
Energise with Vision
Change requires effort, and effort needs a 'Why'. Throughout the coaching engagement we work to continuously elevate a HD picture of success - a values aligned, authentic and progressively more sophisticated mental model of what good looks like, to motivate and energise progress.
'Stretch' - challenging homeostasis
Transformational change requires moving beyond our comfort zones, but not too far or we burnout. Another function of the coaching relationship is to hold ourselves accountable and take responsibility for focusing action on what's within our influence.
Teams
"Great teams are about personalities who complement each other, who bring different strengths to the table and understand how to maximize those strengths together." – Daniel Coyle
1. Team Away Days
The teams we work with, work hard. They're highly committed to something they care about - and that's why it's all the more important to carve out time to STEP OUT of the busyness, to find fresh PERSPECTIVE, and to DISRUPT routines. These 'liminal spaces' open-up possibilities for new thinking, behaving and performing.
We will partner with you to co-design a team away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you.
2. Team Launch
Well-known researches into Team Coaching have found that typically around 30% of a team's performance is determined by the quality of the team 'launch', when the right people, with the right skills, connect around a clear purpose, with the creativity to realise their ambitions.
'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change.
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
We like to say that 'only highly connected teams create moments of magic under pressure'. Through team coaching workshops, we support teams to communicate better, coordinate their actions, focus their effort, and achieve greater impact.
Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to optimize their ways of working and continuously improve.
Team Coaching
"Great teams are about personalities who complement each other, who bring different strengths to the table and understand how to maximize those strengths together." – Daniel Coyle
1. Team Away Days
The teams we work with, work hard. They're highly committed to something they care about - and that's why it's all the more important to carve out time to STEP OUT of the busyness, to find fresh PERSPECTIVE, and to DISRUPT routines. These 'liminal spaces' open-up possibilities for new thinking, behaving and performing.
We will partner with you to co-design a team away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you.
2. Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
Well-known researches into Team Coaching have found that typically around 30% of a team's performance is determined by the quality of the team 'launch', when the right people, with the right skills, connect around a clear purpose, with the creativity to realise their ambitions.
'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change.
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
We like to say that 'only highly connected teams create moments of magic under pressure'. Through team coaching workshops, we support teams to communicate better, coordinate their actions, focus their effort, and achieve greater impact.
Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to optimize their ways of working and continuously improve.
Team Away Days
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For teams wanting to continuously improve performance ✔
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Enhance levels of connection, communication and understanding ✔
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Increased visibility on collective and individual roles and responsibilities ✔
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An opportunity for the team to be re-inspired by vision and purpose ✔
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Higher levels of engagement, responsibility-taking and accountability ✔
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Greater alignement around key goals, challenges and areas to focus effort and attention ✔
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Fun ✔
1. Team Away Days
We partner teams to co-design an away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you. The first step is to review what outcomes you're looking for, and then bring our energy and experience to create an inspiring and motivating shared experience.
Overview
Wherever the location, away-days are times to change the context, disrupt the routine, and find time to 'play'. Typically we partner leaders within the organisation to co-design a programme that creates time for fun, to encounter new ideas, to share stories and personal experiences, and to reflect on how these creative parts can be welcomed more fully into everyday life. Ultimately this will benefit the individuals, teams and wider organisation.
What we bring
As well as bringing decades of experience of working with teams and groups, and expertise with a number of tools, models and techniques to help people bond and grow, our 'input' is as much about holding space, creating the conditions for people to come alive, and noticing the energy of the group so that we can adapt in the moment to what's happening in real time. This often includes sharing our own vulnerabilities, stories of hope and inspiration, and anecdotes of things going wrong! It's making it safe to take risks, experiment, and 'unplugging' any fear of failure.
Outcomes
As anyone who's worked with us will testify, 'What does good look like?' has to be just about our favourite phrase! It'll be no surprise, therefore, that establishing a clear checklist of success is the first step of the proess. We then work with team leaders - providing additional coaching and support where necessary - to ace our 'right-sized' wish-list, and walk away celebrating what we've achieved together.
Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
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For teams that are forming, or re-forming, and want to set themselves up for success, by...
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Getting to know each other better ✔
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Understanding individual and collective strengths and weaknesses ✔
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Uniting around a shared vision of success ✔
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Taking collective responsibility for creating a high performance team culture ✔
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Celebrating diverse behaviour preferences, communication and leadership styles ✔
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Setting intentions for harnessing conflict and 'creative controversy' for better decision-making ✔
2. Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change. The Team Launch is a vital opportunity to inspire with vision, to clarify purpose, and to co-create ways of working that can achieve the desired results.
1. Who are we, and what are our collective strengths?
Leadership expert Jim Collins says, 'First Who, Then What?' We believe that Clarifying The Team Task - why we exist, and how we serve the world - is a really important question; but to explore that most creatively, it helps to better see and hear one another in as much of our uniqueness as possible. As Steven Covey put it, 'Seek first to understand'. Through 'checking-in', showing up, using our voice, sharing our story, and owning our strengths and weaknesses, we create the conditions for a healthy, fruitful team.
2. Vision and Values
The more present we can be in the here and now, the better we can collaborate to co-create the future we want to see. Taking time to enhance a HD picture of success - a collective visualisation experience - provides the North Star that helps teams grow more aligned, inspired and energised.
"We are a vision-driven species... where our images go, our energy flows..."
3. "A dream, without a plan, is just a wish."
One of the reasons that teamwork is hard is that it requires holding the Creative Tension of different kinds of energy and concerns: moving between 'Big Picture' and detail; Innovating and Integrating; People and Profitability; Autonomy and Accountability... and the list goes on. Part of the coach's job is to help teams navigate these creative tensions, and grow more self-aware about their own biasses and preferences so that they can manage their collective behaviours (culture) more successfully over time. A good team launch / re-launch results in a high level of engagement with the aspirations, and how the team needs to work together to achieve those aspirations in practical, day to day rhythms and routines.
Creative Collaboration Workshops
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For teams whose next step is to optimize the conditions for creativity, innovation and experimentation, by...
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Transforming levels of trust and shared expectations ✔
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Learning to get the best from each other, even under pressure when default behaviours resurface ✔
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Enhancing the qaulity of listening to create deeper bonds of empathy, insight and understanding ✔
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Upgrading team meeting culture, systems, processes and routines ✔
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Evolving how feedback flows within the team for improved individual and team performance ✔
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Establishing a 'no blame culture' where people feel emboldened to take risks, learn, and take responsibility for continuous improvement ✔
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to optimize their ways of working and continuously improve, maximising engagement by re-clarifying the shared milestones to give focus and direction, and updating the rhythms and routines that enhance performance..
1. Living things grow
The mechanistic age pushed mental models into our thinking that don't help living things thrive: cogs, spanners, gas, clockwork, and well-oiled machines are not human. As living organisms we are more similar to - and connected with - the natural world: plants, trees, ant colonies, bees, starlings, forests, ecosystems... 'Creative Collaboration' better mirrors behaviours modelled by woodland, insects and birds in a 'murmaration'.
2. The free-flow of communication
In healthy systems, information flows; the more that relevant information is able to circulate through teams, threats can be avoided, decision-making is more robust, and changes can be adapted to more quickly. This is why many successful organisations in the modern age strive to adopt the practice of 'slowing down to speed up.'
3. "Creative Controversy"
We've all sat in boring meetings. Why are they boring? In my experience it's because people aren't saying what they really want to say - the moment that happens, things start to get interesting! Many books on leadership and teamwork talk about the importance of both trust and healthy conflict, psychological safety and candour. 'Creative Collaboration' exists in that space where there is enough safety to take meaningful risks.
4. Experimentation and fear of failure.
A well-known organisational psychologist used to say that can't really understand a system until you try to change it. This is why, with the best will in the world, so many strategies - and change programmes, in particular - fail to deliver lasting results. Once again we find that the path to health is through a creative tension of action and reflection, of theory and practice. 'Creative Collaboration' requires a discipline of making plans together 'off the pitch', but then going and putting them into practice to generate real world feedback.
Leadership Development
"The evidence is clear: If you want to change (develop / grow / evolve) your odds of success go up dramatically when you commit to changing as part of a group. Belief is essential, and it grows out of a communal experience, even if that community is only as large as two people." - Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
A programme providing leaders with bite-size theory, peer support, and lots of hands-on practice, to help leaders to grow personally and professionally, as well as developing confidence in a coaching leadership style. The 'support and challenge' of the group experience super-charges learning with the fast feedback needed to accelerate growth.
This course is aimed at people responsible for leading, managing and developing others as part of their role.
An online community of purpose-driven pioneers who coach, get coached, and develop coaching skills to achieve greater mission-impact and leadership effectiveness.
This community exists to serve mission-driven founders, social entrepreneurs, and senior leaders from the third sector or commercial ventures truly committed to creating positive social and environmental impact.
A unique opportunity to tune-into greater personal purpose, energy and effectiveness through a 12 month group coaching journey for people working to unlock meaningful change.
This programme exists for people with a deep sense of mission, looking for creative ways to bring their purpose to life in the context of their everyday reality.
Coach To Lead
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A group leadership development programme that can either be run for a group of leaders within an organisation, or as an open programme connecting purpose-driven leaders working in different contexts:
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A confidential space to learn and grow ✔
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Gain fresh insights and best ways forward for your most pressing leadership challenges ✔
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Develop coaching skills as a vital competence to help others develop and perform ✔
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Witness the impact of different coaching styles to create positive outcomes ✔
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Get hands-on practice and immediate feedback from a supportive group of peers ✔
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Create better understanding, connections and communication between teams and functions ✔
1. Coach To Lead
The 'Coach To Lead' programme can be accessed over 4 half-days, or 12 bite-sized modules. It's perfect for anyone with leadership or management responsibilities who wants to grow personally, and unlock the potential of those around you. You can either register to join our next open programme, or invite us to deliver the programme 'in house' with key players within your organisation.
1. Grow Coaching Confidence
2. Grow Self-Awareness
A safe and stretching space to learn and practice coaching skills that you can put into practice immediately in the real-life leadership context of your every day.
3. Gain Tools
Get personalised guidance that truly resonates to 'turbo-charge' your effectiveness - compassionate, fast feedback from expert coaches and peers who are on your side, will help you move from intention to impact.
4. Become a Better Leader
With a careful balance of bite-sized theory and hands-on practice, you will be given tools to experiment with, that push you out of your comfort zone, but with plenty of support.
Learn to adapt your style to different scenarios and situational needs - playing to your natural strengths, but also changing your style when needed. "Regardless of how long anyone has been in Management I believe these leadership coaching sessions are invaluable." Ashley Borgman, Graham and Green
Partners In Purpose (Pip)
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Pip is an online peer coaching community equipping leaders and founders who are pursuing an inspiring vision with:
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A confidential space to think through your most pressing leadership challenges ✔
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Being part of like-minded tribe who are aligned in purpose, working in different contexts ✔
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A forum to develop personally and professionally through the support and stretch of peers ✔
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A chance to build coaching skills to unlock the potential of the people around you ✔
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The encouragement of 'Good News Stories' as we grow and succeed, together ✔
2. Partners In Purpose Coaching Circle
Partners In Purpose is more a peer community than a 'programme'. Through regular online meetings, and bi-annual face to face days, an inspired group of changemakers champion each others' growth and success, as we work with purpose to create impact we believe in.
1. Be Inspired
Gather with other mission-driven pioneers who are working to acheive meaningful change. In the coaching circle we share the highs and lows, the successes and the challenges, and support each other to find the best way forward.
3. Gain Vital Insights
We don't come to offer one another advice, but rather to hold the space, be present and curious, to listen and ask questions. In the conditions of trust, new insights are surfaced and alternative perspectives can be heard.
2. Step Out of 'The Weeds'
One of the biggest challenges most leaders have is making time to step back from the urgent and invest in the important. The discipline of meeting for coaching regurlarly makes time for reflection and accessing 'the helicopter view'.
4. Coach and be coached
Working for change can be tiring and lonely. The confidential nature of the coaching circle means it's a space to meet with kindred spirits, and be resourced.
A Year On Purpose
A 10 month group coaching journey to tune-into greater purpose, passion and impact, supported by a community of peers committed to meaningful change.
Why join us?
Harness the power of a small group to help you 'zoom in' to pupose, realign with values, and focus more effectively on what's within your sphere of influence to make the most positive impact. Drawing on a range of stories, tools and frameworks, we'll push oursevles beyond our comfort zones as we wrestle with the question: "are we truly living the life we want?" And daring to take responsiblity for doing our creative best with our own lives?
How it works
With a maximum of 12 participants, each session is energised by a provocative story, question and reflective activity. After a brief exploration, we'll break into smaller, confidential groups of three to coach and be coached through our personal responses and intentions for change, with coaching buddies to support your progress along the way.
When and where?
How to apply
The programme is online, and we meet on the first Monday of the month, 1-3pm (so that part of the time can fit into a lunch break - and on the first Monday of the month to help us start each month strong!) see dates below:
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1:1s before beginning and end
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Monday 7th October