In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
We’ve come to expect a lot of our leaders. Top executives, the thinking goes, should have the intellectual capacity to make sense of unfathomably complex issues, the imaginative powers to…
read moreYou’re successful. You’ve achieved so much already. Yet you feel there’s more you can do – for yourself, your team, your business – and that you could be enjoying your life more.
Maybe you’re looking to boost your boardroom confidence, improve your delegation skills or increase your leadership skills. Perhaps you’re considering your next career options. Whatever it is, an insightful, no-obligation chat might clarify things for you…
If you’re looking for that boost and the breakthrough ability to achieve even more success, working with me can make it happen (a result my clients are happy to vouch for). But bear in mind that your success isn’t about me as a coach. Being coached requires so much more from you – change is simple but not easy. Coaching success calls for 3 special behaviours and commitments from you: COURAGE, HUMILITY and DISCIPLINE.
You’re successful. You’ve achieved so much already. Yet you feel there’s more you can do – for yourself, your team, your business – and that you could be enjoying your life more.
Maybe you’re looking to boost your boardroom confidence, improve your delegation skills or increase your leadership skills. Perhaps you’re considering your next career options. Whatever it is, an insightful, no-obligation chat might clarify things for you…
If you’re looking for that boost and the breakthrough ability to achieve even more success, working with me can make it happen (a result my clients are happy to vouch for). But bear in mind that your success isn’t about me as a coach. Being coached requires so much more from you – change is simple but not easy. Coaching success calls for 3 special behaviours and commitments from you: COURAGE, HUMILITY and DISCIPLINE.
Are you willing to get out of your comfort zone, be vulnerable, try new things, rethink deeply held beliefs and do what it takes to change?
Are you willing to involve stakeholders, your team, colleagues and leaders? Ask them to help you in your development and change, consider their suggestions, admit you aren’t perfect and demonstrate leadership growth and real strength?
Will you make the time and effort to implement and hone more effective behaviours, habits, and processes? Sustainable behavioural change takes time and the rewards will be massive.
Are you willing to get out of your comfort zone, be vulnerable, try new things, rethink deeply held beliefs and do what it takes to change?
Are you willing to involve stakeholders, your team, colleagues and leaders? Ask them to help you in your development and change, consider their suggestions, admit you aren’t perfect and demonstrate leadership growth and real strength?
Will you make the time and effort to implement and hone more effective behaviours, habits, and processes? Sustainable behavioural change takes time and the rewards will be massive.
I work with successful executives like you, to help you become the person and leader you want to be – and feel proud to be.
I can help you become a more effective leader – so that you, your teams and your business achieve more success. I love the work I do and I am lucky to be able to work with such talented executives. I get a massive buzz from inspiring, encouraging and seeing their development and success.
I have over 30 years of experience of working at Executive and Partner levels and over 15 years as a successful Executive Coach. I am passionate about my work and use the critical power of Emotional Intelligence for leadership development.
Using 360-degree feedback from my clients and results, the Ashridge Hult Centre for Coaching ran a psychometric assessment of my coaching ability and styles. It reported: “Phil excels in two of the most subtle coaching interventions: listening and deepening the conversation… His scores are larger than the overwhelming majority of coaches assessed.”
I work with successful executives like you, to help you become the person and leader you want to be – and feel proud to be.
I can help you become a more effective leader – so that you, your teams and your business achieve more success. I love the work I do and I am lucky to be able to work with such talented executives. I get a massive buzz from inspiring, encouraging and seeing their development and success.
I have over 30 years of experience of working at Executive and Partner levels and over 15 years as a successful Executive Coach. I am passionate about my work and use the critical power of Emotional Intelligence for leadership development.
Using 360-degree feedback from my clients and results, the Ashridge Hult Centre for Coaching ran a psychometric assessment of my coaching ability and styles. It reported: “Phil excels in two of the most subtle coaching interventions: listening and deepening the conversation… His scores are larger than the overwhelming majority of coaches assessed.”
Every client is different and your programme will be completely tailored to you and your success. You decide where you want to focus and I select and use the most appropriate techniques to support you and let you move forwards. I offer a selection of coaching and leadership development services that will support you, your teams and your business: 1-on-1 coaching, Team coaching, leadership programmes and psychometrics.
IQ got you to where you are, Emotional Intelligence (EQ/EI) will help you become the person you want to be.
Emotional Intelligence assessments will help to develop your Self-Awareness.
“In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive, and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding”. – Daniel Goleman
Understanding more about your colleagues’, team’s and bosses’ perceptions of you can be the most powerful aid to your career progression.
This can be a trigger for your own successful behavioural change, opening up new and exciting opportunities for your development and growth.
Do you attend board meetings and worry about your impact? Have you been recently been promoted into a senior position? Do you need to develop your presence in the boardroom or relationships at board level? You will need to present yourself with gravitas and authority. Many of my clients have made great strides in this area.
Ask yourself “what needs to change for us to become significantly more effective in delivering our team purpose?
Today’s most successful businesses have a strong focus on high performing teams where the members assign a higher priority to the team outcomes than to their own ‘stove-pipe’ responsibilities.
Developed by Marshall Goldsmith in 2010, SCC is based on your stakeholder’s perception of you today and later, in six months to a year’s time. You select appropriate stakeholders, your team, colleagues, bosses to help you in your path to success. It uses their perception of your improvements, your behavioural change. This is a SIMPLE process but is NOT EASY. However, SCC has been shown to deliver the most powerful changes and success.
It’s important to understand our unconscious biases. We all have these and the first step to doing something about them is to gain an understanding of what they are and how they are helping or hindering our behaviours.
Coaching along with Emotional Intelligence can help to bring this to our attention, from there we can choose to take action.
Do you feel like you are always adding new tasks to your to-do list but never crossing anything out? I will help guide and inspire you to prioritise and achieve more of your personal and professional goals. Get in touch today and start taking control of your life.
This is perhaps the most usual way to move into Executive Coaching and to drive the success you want for yourself.
I offer a range of programmes for this. Give me a call then let’s tailor your success programme together.
A typical programme is around 6 coaching sessions of 2-3 hours each, one per month for 6 months. The precise timing and duration will be tailored to your needs.
Every client is different and your programme will be completely tailored to you and your success. You decide where you want to focus and I select and use the most appropriate techniques to support you and let you move forwards. I offer a selection of coaching and leadership development services that will support you, your teams and your business: 1-on-1 coaching, Team coaching, leadership programmes and psychometrics.
IQ got you to where you are, Emotional Intelligence (EQ/EI) will help you become the person you want to be.
Emotional Intelligence assessments will help to develop your Self-Awareness.
“In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive, and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding”. – Daniel Goleman
Understanding more about your colleagues’, team’s and bosses’ perceptions of you can be the most powerful aid to your career progression.
This can be a trigger for your own successful behavioural change, opening up new and exciting opportunities for your development and growth.
Do you attend board meetings and worry about your impact? Have you been recently been promoted into a senior position? Do you need to develop your presence in the boardroom or relationships at board level? You will need to present yourself with gravitas and authority. Many of my clients have made great strides in this area.
Ask yourself “what needs to change for us to become significantly more effective in delivering our team purpose?
Today’s most successful businesses have a strong focus on high performing teams where the members assign a higher priority to the team outcomes than to their own ‘stove-pipe’ responsibilities.
Developed by Marshall Goldsmith in 2010, SCC is based on your stakeholder’s perception of you today and later, in six months to a year’s time. You select appropriate stakeholders, your team, colleagues, bosses to help you in your path to success. It uses their perception of your improvements, your behavioural change. This is a SIMPLE process but is NOT EASY. However, SCC has been shown to deliver the most powerful changes and success.
It’s important to understand our unconscious biases. We all have these and the first step to doing something about them is to gain an understanding of what they are and how they are helping or hindering our behaviours.
Coaching along with Emotional Intelligence can help to bring this to our attention, from there we can choose to take action.
Do you feel like you are always adding new tasks to your to-do list but never crossing anything out? I will help guide and inspire you to prioritise and achieve more of your personal and professional goals. Get in touch today and start taking control of your life.
This is perhaps the most usual way to move into Executive Coaching and to drive the success you want for yourself.
I offer a range of programmes for this. Give me a call then let’s tailor your success programme together.
A typical programme is around 6 coaching sessions of 2-3 hours each, one per month for 6 months. The precise timing and duration will be tailored to your needs.
“Phil is a wise owl. He has a wealth of experience which he is happy to share in guiding and advising you without dictating the way forward. He is friendly and cheerful and is always part of the solution and never adding to your problems. I worked with Phil at a very challenging time personally and professionally and having Phil on the team made things easier to bear. I thoroughly recommend Phil – a great asset as a Business Coach.”
CEO – Training Industry
“I’ve found our sessions boost self-belief because I leave them equipped with new ideas & thoughts to help me tackle my business issues. Our sessions sometimes force me to challenge my opinions, assumptions, prejudices and the underlying drivers behind my personality. I find that this introspection ultimately boosts my self-understanding which underpins my self-belief.”
Director of Managed Services – Global Telecomms Industry
“Phil is an exceptional Executive Coach, very knowledgeable and intuitive. He is currently coaching and challenging me to reach my next career move within the organisation. He is thought provoking, inspiring and insightful and it is great to leverage his knowledge and experience as he understands the environment I work within. He has given me tools to develop my communication style to be in line with Board Level and flexible enough to communicate to the wider audience. Phil challenges me to be more self-aware of the impact I have on others and not be afraid to not know the tiny detail.”
Head of HR
“I have a high regard for Phil’s ability to listen and tease out the issues, discuss them, then put them in context or give examples/stories to help the recipient put them into their context.
I identified a manager who I hoped had the potential to rise significantly within the organisation.
Phil did a first-class job blending a coaching and mentoring approach. The candidate grew enormously and developed the emotional intelligence and self-awareness which is fundamental in a senior management role.
The manager’s insight into different approaches to achieve behavioural change in an organisation was also developed.
He is now no. 2 in our organisation, reports directly to our CEO and attends our board meetings. His ability has been recognised outside of our company and he has recently become, on a part time basis, CEO of an associate organisation.
This very rewarding success for the manager in question and for our organisation is down to the candidate’s potential and equally, in no small measure, Phil’s coaching, mentoring and Emotional Intelligence skills in developing those abilities.
I have no hesitation in recommending Phil to deliver this form of senior management development.”
Chairman – Charity
“I needed a coach who was independent, had broad business experience and could help me get results from our Board of Trustees and my staff. Phil delivered on all of these and more and I could comfortably discuss all topics in complete confidence.”
CEO – Mental Health charity
“I have engaged with Phil for executive coaching within my organisation and for individuals within my own team. Phil undertakes the role with complete professionalism and brings a wealth of insight and experience, at the same time truly challenging the coachee and bringing real tangible impact on performance.”
HR Director – Utilities Industry
A complete practical guide to coaching tools, drawn from an incredible array of world-leading experts, academics and practitioners. The guide for any coach or leader seeking excellence and looking for inspiration.
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A complete practical guide to coaching tools, drawn from an incredible array of world-leading experts, academics and practitioners. The guide for any coach or leader seeking excellence and looking for inspiration.
“I am so proud to have been a contributor-author to this amazing book.”
We’ve come to expect a lot of our leaders. Top executives, the thinking goes, should have the intellectual capacity to make sense of unfathomably complex issues, the imaginative powers to…
read moreWho Challenges You? Are you surrounded by people who nod with approval? Leaders that need an “approval environment” aren’t enabling themselves or the people around them to play at their…
read moreOnce you accept that you are, it’s so much easier to fill the gaps. How much have you encouraged the voices and experience of your team, your people, listening rather…
read moreI remember earlier in my career being told that I was being too emotional about a Client situation and that was not acceptable in a Big 4 Consultancy at Partner…
read moreWe’ve come to expect a lot of our leaders. Top executives, the thinking goes, should have the intellectual capacity to make sense of unfathomably complex issues, the imaginative powers to…
read moreWho Challenges You? Are you surrounded by people who nod with approval? Leaders that need an “approval environment” aren’t enabling themselves or the people around them to play at their…
read moreOnce you accept that you are, it’s so much easier to fill the gaps. How much have you encouraged the voices and experience of your team, your people, listening rather…
read moreI remember earlier in my career being told that I was being too emotional about a Client situation and that was not acceptable in a Big 4 Consultancy at Partner…
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