Creating Change and Development through Coaching

Transform your confidence, relationships, performance and results Stimulate deeper levels of your innovation, creativity and clarity of personal purpose Influence outside your area of control, where you have no formal authority Get the very best out of your colleagues and teams and in your personal relationships

Executive and Career Coaching | Spiritual Coaching | Work | Relationships | Lifestyle and balance | Costs

I don’t offer answers or give advice, the person with all the answers in the coaching relationship is you.

As your coach I will enable you:

To find the motivation to take action towards a solution To deliver effectively against target, outcomes and commitments To develop practical strategies for higher performance To organise your mental and emotional energy to think better, work better, relate better and be more efficient To commit to constant improvement and refinement of personal skills and capabilities To access your own deep intuition about what you need to do To communicate more clearly and with more impact with yourself and others To remember what you have forgotten

Laughing Crow Coaching is informed by its commitment to clarity, integrity and authenticity.

Coaching has been around for as long as one person has tried to help or encourage another to identify and achieve their goals. You may be forgiven for thinking it has only just been discovered and is the panacea to all of our problems as individuals, our route to reaching personal nirvana.

I'm not saying that good coaching can't bring enormous rewards, but that it’s also important to remember that effective leaders, teachers and parents all use the range of skills and create their relationships within the framework that we are identifying as coaching.

I, like many of you, have been coaching staff and volunteer teams (and individuals within those teams), clients, colleagues, friends, family and myself (by far the most difficult person to coach!!) for years.

What the recent developments within the coaching field has done, is to bring a greater recognition and clarification to the skills required for high quality coaching and increased the opportunity for people to learn them and bring them to situations not previously thought of.

If you are unsure as to what you can expect from a coaching relationship or how it works I will be pleased to talk you through the process. And if you put coaching into your preferred search engine you will find plenty of sites that will tell you all you need to know.

It is important to get a good fit with a coach, one that will meet your needs and can work with the context of your situation. Although the answers are all your own, it is helpful to work with someone who has an understanding of the context of your work life, that’s why I specialise in working with people who work in the Third Sector and within political environments.

Lets look at the areas that I coach in and see if any of them fit your needs, don’t forget that you are a whole being and if we are working with together in an executive coaching situation we may well be addressing relationship issues or the lack of meaning in your life.

Executive and Career Coaching

Here are some of the issues or situations you may be looking for help, don’t forget these are just a few examples we can help with your situation whatever it is

Did you know most important period in a new job or role is the first 90 days, that’s how long you have to succeed. We can be with you through that process, your personal backstop. You are responsible for vision, innovation and change. We can help you lead your organisation with a deep sensitivity to what creates and what blocks commitment and performance in human beings. As the most senior paid member of staff you are often stuck in the middle of your management/trustee board and your staff team. It can be a vulnerable place, especially if you are trying to introduce change. Its good to know that there is someone who is entirely on your side and that is who your coach is. Do you feel stuck in your job, does it no longer feel aligned with what you want from life. We can work with you to make the changes you need that will lead to a more fulfilling way of earning a living, which might even mean staying where you are.

Spiritual Coaching

This is not about religion or external belief systems, as your coach I will not be preaching any philosophy. This is the area of your life that brings meaning, purpose and addresses your spirit. We will help you work with and realign your belief and value systems.

Are you asking yourself deep personal questions about the meaning of life Can you identify your personal value system, your principles Do you want to discover a deep inner sense of your own meaning and spirituality Do you feel disconnected with yourself As your coach I will assist you to create a robust personal philosophy in life that will give you the foundation for excellence, happiness and greater fulfilment in pursuit of your purpose

Coaching also covers all other aspects of our lives and I am happy to discuss your individual needs, here are the other fields in which Laughing Crow Coaching can help you raise the quality and enjoyment of your life.

Work

demands on all of us are growing massively and I can help individuals or teams (including management committees) raise the quality, effectiveness and enjoyment of your experience in this area of your life.

Relationships

our experience of life is all about relationship. Most of us have and will continue to face tough interpersonal challenges, increased wisdom about ourselves and greater awareness of how we communicate will support us in achieving our goals in all our relationships.

Lifestyle and balance

how we cope with what some call the tyranny of choice, our ability to avoid or overcome an addiction to more rather than better, and the recovery of a sense of values and balance in life offers the opportunity to work on the foundations of our life.

Costs

Contact me to discuss your needs and my current price list (don’t forget I have a commitment to meeting your budget as part of my commitment to supporting Third Sector development).

The service I provide is available to individuals, groups or teams.

Face to face with follow up by phone and email.

An indication of my current hourly rate for individual coaching (February 2008) is £50 per hour for face to face or telephone sessions – which includes ongoing email contact between sessions.

Email coaching@laughingcrow.co.uk