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Executive Coaching
Elevating results by supporting good people to perform at their very best!
We know that you already understand the immense value of having space, time and appropriate structured support for self-reflection, idea generation, constructive challenge and renewal of clarity and vigour in the direction of important targets and goals.
At times, investing in such quality development time can be the difference between making something happen or not. At other times it can be the difference between thriving and burning out. It allows you to reconnect with your priorities, have you feeling resourceful, thinking positively and creatively and operating at your very best.
And of course you don't need us to tell you that creating opportunities for good people in organisations to really thrive at the highest level makes total commerical sense.
One-to-one executive coaching is now widely recognised as a very time-efficient and cost-effective way of assisting key people in organisations to take themselves and those that they influence to a higher level of performance.
Tailored coaching programmes assist key people to gain intense clarity about where they are going and what they want to achieve and also, very importantly, keeps them on track so that they take the right actions that ensure the right consistent results.
At the outset, specific focus areas and tangible outcomes are agreed and coaching approaches are skillfully adapted to suit the unique individual and their goals. We fully understand that the coaching needs to relate closely to key organisational goals in order to maximise return on investment.
Coaching sessions address specific challenges, assist with problem solving, increase awareness of self and others, enhance communication skills, improve focus, increase emotional intelligence and help coachees to continually ‘sharpen the saw’ so that they are more fully prepared to achieve their intended outcomes.
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Some of the beneficial outcomes experienced by our clients:
- Better clarity about direction and priorities
- Accessing more useful solutions and perspectives
- Increased motivation and drive
- Feeling more aligned with achieving targets
- More effective communication with others
- Better time management - getting more done in less time
- More of a sense of freedom and control over future success
- More energy and greater determination
- A step-up in confidence in specific important aspects of their roles
- Better ability to inspire others to perform at their best
- Increased self control, including effective state management
- Enhanced ability to prevent and/or manage day-to-day hassles and friction thereby reducing stress
- Feeling more preparedness for promotion / career progression
- Greater self-awareness of own strengths and areas for development
- A heightened understanding of how to ‘flex’ to effectively connect and influence a wide variety of different people.
- More of a compulsion to really crank up result-oriented activities
Who for?
We help and support people just as effectively within large global organisations as within the small to medium size business sector. Although we tend to mainly work with managers, leaders and business owners, our executive coaching can be extremely beneficial to anyone operating within any organisation, whatever its size and whatever the person's role.
Remember, coaching is not 'business mentoring'. A good coach can help a wide range of people to get the results that they want because they are experts in helping people to get focused, get resourceful, get creative, get out of their own way and get making things happen. These are key ingredients of human success that are common to a wide range of roles and will apply within a huge variety of commercial and non-commercial organisations.
The skillset we offer will be best suited to a key person within an organisation that has a good degree of openness to the fact that they can keep themselves sharper and more effective with quality structured support from a skilled and experienced coach.
Having said that, we also have a good track record of effectively working with 'initially reluctant' coachees, who only discover the true value of coaching once it has begun.
Some really helpful options to compliment your executive coaching:
A personalised DiSC® profile can be offered as part of the package and coachees often find it incredibly useful to have insight into their own behavioural tendencies and preferences and to consider how they can harness their strengths and increase flexibility as appropriate according to the demands of the situation and the behavioural tendencies and preferences of others in the organisation.
Sometimes it is extremely useful and enlightening for managers and leaders to obtain information about how they are perceived by their colleagues, suppliers and customers. It can be of great benefit to them to understand what they are doing well and in what specific areas they need to improve. We have coaches in the team who are accredited to deliver feedback interviews using the ECI Inventory tool which assesses Emotional Intelligence using a 360 degree online questionnaire. This can help to pinpoint at the outset the most valuable areas on which to focus in order to attract maximum and most lasting benefits from the coaching programme that follows.
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Where?
Our coaches can travel to deliver face-to-face coaching across the UK, including all major towns and cities (such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Leeds, Bradford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Swansea, Harrogate, Swindon, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Derby, Sheffield, Liverpool, Chester, Lincoln, Cambridge, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Norwich, Bristol, Belfast).
By arrangement, we can also offer face-to-face coaching (English delivery) in major European cities.
Often we deliver the coaching onsite within the client's premises.
Sometimes clients prefer to travel to us for their coaching offsite.
Sometimes a meeting room is booked offsite near to the client's premises.
We can also deliver telephone or skype coaching UK-wide and worldwide (delivered in English only).
Academy of High Achievers Coaches:
Each member of our small team of executive coaches is highly skilled at bringing the very best out of people in a wide range of contexts and focus areas. Each has a well-honed ability to uncover how any individual is 'operating', inside and out, whether they are thriving or getting in their own way. They know how to help a person to modify what is not working and replace it with more of 'whatever works'. They have well established abilities to connect with clients quickly and naturally. Each coach has an abundance of personal and professional development tools, models and approaches that will be of huge value for any coaching journey towards specific and well-defined outcomes. Members of the coaching team are delightfully flexible and always tailor their approach to best fit the specific needs and preferences of the client.
What this means is that when you choose Academy of High Achievers as your supplier of quality executive coaching, you are guaranteed to be in safe hands and are sure to get a solid return on your investment.
To discuss your specific Executive Coaching needs...
...please contact Tony Burgess, Director of Academy of High Achievers Ltd
You can do so either directly by calling him on his mobile +44 (0)7989 469 570 or by emailing him
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