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Working with Organisations

An organisation’s success is determined by both the quality and the confidence of its people.  Our clients are all senior leaders.  We understand the complexity of the leadership role in modern organisations, having been there ourselves.  We work with clients to balance hitting key targets with creating the trust and commitment of the people they manage.

We offer:

• Leadership development through executive coaching, mentoring, assessments and psychometric profiling and specific leadership in-house programmes.
• Business and strategy development through audits, workshops and coaching.
• Team coaching through workshops and off–site events
• Talent management through succession planning, individual development plans, high potentials workshops and programmes with associated coaching for the individuals.
• Specific behavioural coaching and business development workshops in sales, marketing and customer service to improve the client experience and to win more business profitably.
• Organisational change which supports managers and leaders in being able to adopt coaching and collaborative styles of leading alongside more traditional directive only styles. Click here to find out how we help you develop a coaching culture .

Recent Client Challenges:

• A Board of Directors who needed to learn to listen to each others’ valuable input in moving the company forward.
• An organisation that had transformed itself and now had to manage its widely dispersed workforce across the world.
• A software house which needed to connect much more closely with its clients if it was to continue to succeed in business.
• A highly successful services business which needed to find new talent in critical positions and to retain key talent if it was to maintain its competitive place in the market.

Developing a Coaching Culture

Research such as Jim Collins’ Built to Last and From Good to Great suggests that the most enduring organisations are those where the skills of listening, enquiring and exploring are fundamental.  They are the key skills that enable managers to move from providing all the solutions for their teams to developing their teams’ problem-solving capability.  These skills need to be learned, practised and reviewed by the individual executive if they are to be mastered.  They are the lifeblood of a highly effective leader as coach and to develop them takes time, commitment, and discipline.

In organisations that value coaching, leaders will value their own role as coach.  They will provide coaching and mentoring to their teams.  Team managers throughout the organisation will, in turn, develop coaching skills. These skills sit alongside the other leadership styles of the leader – be they collaborative, pace setting or highly directive. There is a time and a place for all of these styles and the highly effective leader learns to use these different styles as the situation requires.

A coaching culture leads to an organisation that listens to its people, reflects accurately on its performance, and learns from its mistakes.  It creates an organisation that thrives in times of change and deals pragmatically with uncertainty.

In short, the organisation’s people will have the constant desire to learn and improve without fear.

Pure Potential offers practical workshops specifically in coaching skills for managers and senior executives.

Leadership Development
Executive Development
Talent Management
Business Coaching
Assessments