What is Coaching
Coaching is the process used to facilitate the movement of the Client from their current state to their desired state in their professional life. Your Coach will use questions, observations, conceptual frameworks, assessments, and direct communication to support you in deepening your learning and progress toward your goals. Insights gained from your psychometric/organimetric profiles be part of this process.
All decisions in these areas are exclusively yours and actions regarding them are your sole responsibility.
Where used, your profile insights will provide a basis for a better self-understanding of your workstyle and why that drives you to behave in certain ways in various circumstances. Additionally, we will discuss and explore specific examples in your work life, whether in your current employment or previous, so that you have real life scenarios to explore and understand, which will provide a basis for you to adapt and work differently to achieve the outcomes you want.
Mike’s Coaching principles are:
• that there’s always a way;
• none but ourselves can free our minds;
• helping the client find their driver, “why do I (the client) want to change?”
Mike’s style is to be constructively challenging, facilitating client self-awareness and helping clients to build positive new habits to reinforce the change they seek.
Mike’s coaching model is based around Clutterbuck’s Systemic Eclectic approach, a liberating approach which allows the Coach to be in the moment with the Client, drawing on an array of operating methods and tools, drawing from life and from pure coaching theory.
Establish – the Purpose or desired outcome for the Client.
Explore – resources, options, environment, landscape, emotions, feelings as beneficial.
Exemplify – actions and steps and habits to facilitate the desired change.
Exult – celebrate, enjoy the insight, discovery and renewed purpose and outcome/potential outcome.
Enlightenment – having travelled the first four steps the Client achieves a new level of self-awareness and potential impact.
The Mechanics:
Typically this will involve an Initiation session with the Client, his/her Sponsor (often but not always the Client’s boss) and Coach (Mike) to include expectations from all parties, goal setting and orientation. This takes 30-60 minutes and is followed with 8 sessions of 60 minutes, timings at client discretion, sessions will be held by whatever agreed video tool preferred.
The mechanics of the engagement are not rigid and can be tailored to client requirement.
“Mike is an incredibly knowledgeable and skilled leader with evidential experience in helping people be the best they can be. His key strengths lie in being able to tune in to an individual to really work with them on clarifying their personal wants, and then how to go about reaching these, to develop themselves. Mike is positive in character, pragmatic and understanding whilst being clear on his intention to develop people and push boundaries.
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Faye Summers
Head of HR
UK Flooring Direct
“Mike is an incredibly knowledgeable and skilled leader with evidential experience in helping people be the best they can be. His key strengths lie in being able to tune in to an individual to really work with them on clarifying their personal wants, and then how to go about reaching these, to develop themselves. Mike is positive in character, pragmatic and understanding whilst being clear on his intention to develop people and push boundaries.
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Faye Summers
Head of HR
UK Flooring Direct
I’ve known Mike for many years now and
worked closely with him while setting up the
Voice Services business in Colt. In that hectic
phase Mike proved to be a great HR partner.
He helped shape the organization and team,
was a personal adviser to me, and helped
create a culture where people were proud
to be part of the business and focussed on
getting things done.
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Richard Oosterom
Business Transformation
Interxion
I never thought coaching or mentoring is
important. I thought it is one of those soft
skills that you can go through life without.
Companies may have certain programs
internally but those are nothing alike the real
deal! Mike is a people expert who knows how
to help people get the best out of themselves
and has had numerous leadership roles in
different industries.
A tome of knowledge, a good listener and will
give you pragmatic advice. The sessions with
him have helped me improve as a person,
enlarged my view about different things by
adding perspectives or great insights. Mike is
truly inspirational, I can’t speak highly enough
of his work on coaching/mentoring.
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Global Head of Reward
Aggreko
