The journey ahead

Coaching is ultimately about you going on a journey of growth and change.

Some people start that journey with a clear destination in mind - a clear sense of the changes they wish to make. Others with only the vaguest sense that life is not as it should be. Most lie somewhere in-between.

As important as the destination is learning to enjoy the journey itself; to stop and enjoy the view once in a while.

You’re the one driving on this journey, but I’m sat beside you helping you to navigate.

I look forward to the journey ahead.

Dimensions of change - I, we, it

When it comes to change, you can think about it through these three different dimensions:

• ‘I’ - meaning the individual dimension. This is the work focused on you - who you are as a person, what you believe, how you show up, what you do.
• ‘We’ - meaning the relational dimension. This is the work focused on the relational - who you’re with, how you interact, the interpersonal dynamics.
• ‘It’ - meaning the organisational. This is the work focused on the organisation and how it operates - strategy, planning, goal setting, execution etc.

In my coaching, I work with clients across all three of these dimensions, from the deep personal work, to the organisational. We might spend one session exploring the unconscious parts of you and how they show up in your leadership (I), and the next focused on how to bring together the organisational strategy (it).

Some rules of the road

Coaching is not a passive process. It only really works effectively if we’re both engaged and invested.

Here are the key principles I believe contribute to a successful coaching relationship:

• Trust - everything we discuss is confidential. Ultimately we have to build a trust that runs deep enough for you to open up to yourself with me present.
• Wholeness - no topic is off limits. It doesn’t have to relate to work. It’s about you in your entirety.
• Openness - to pushing beyond your comfort zone, breaking your usual patterns, exploring different perspectives, giving things a try.
• Ownership - you’re driving, I’m here to help navigate. I can’t make the change for you, you need to decide the destination and put in the work to drive towards it.