What Is Professional Coaching?

Professional Coaching is gaining more recognition as an essential tool for success in an ever more complex world. It can help you unlock the potential within yourself or that of your teams, managers and leadership.

In essence, Professional Coaching is a process whereby the Coach guides their Client to clarify their business or personal goals. It will aid with the determination of realistic, appropriate and measurable strategies for improvement. Of course, for this to happen, the Client must commit to action in order to achieve these goals and thus reach their true potential. It is a collaborative relationship where the Coach helps the Client move forward in their own way.

Professional Coaching should, at the very least, result in an improvement in the Client’s self-awareness, resilience, confidence and motivation. It can help manage pressure and prevent burnout. In a business setting this leads to better working relationships and improved talent retention. The resulting increases in performance, efficiency and productivity make it a sound business investment. In the context of personal development, Coaching will help you stay focused and motivated to achieve your personal goals.

Why choose Professional Coaching?

Personal Development

Coaching can help you make changes you never thought possible.

Maybe you want to gain a new perspective on your career options or understand more about yourself and your individual strengths. You maybe looking to return to work after a career break or looking to make changes in your personal life. Coaching is especially valuable if you feel ” stuck”, frustrated or at a crossroads and can lead to much improved personal and professional fulfilment.

Every athlete has a Coach. Whilst the athlete has the talent it is the Coach that provides the guidance to keep them motivated such that they continually improve and so perform at their best. The same is true of coaching for personal development.

My role as your Coach is to provide a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space where you feel heard, understood and ready to take control of your life and career choices.

Coaching requires making changes and this can be a scary thought. You will set your own pace and agenda and decide what you would like to focus on. I will offer perspective, ask the right questions and gently challenge you so that you have the clarity to find your own solutions. You will try new ways of thinking and the resulting insight into your own values and individual strengths will boost your confidence and increase your motivation to become the best version of yourself.

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Business Start Up and Growth

Do you want to explore a new business opportunity? Got a great idea but need an objective and confidential sounding board to help crystallise your thoughts? Maybe you need some support to give you the confidence to “go for it”. Maybe you are already a senior executive in an existing organisation or own a business but need to develop your own skills and leadership in order to grow.

As an executive or business leader you have a great burden of responsibility. Pressure and stress can lead to burnout and when this occurs professional and personal development stalls with very serious consequences for both the organisation and the individual.

Professional Coaching can help clarify your ideas and shape a robust business plan. It will aid with the determination of realistic, appropriate and measurable strategies. You will pinpoint your goals and define realistic, appropriate and measurable strategies by which to define and analyse progress. It will help you achieve greater levels of self-awareness and build resilience. By reaching your full potential you can keep the organisation on the right track and achieve your desired work/life balance.

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Support for Teams and Managers.

Change Management:

In order to survive, now more than ever, organisations are having to adapt to rapid change. Amongst other challenges, businesses must learn to navigate the new world of Artificial Intelligence. Successful transformation requires managers to motivate teams and facilitate change. If an organisation has long established and ingrained working practices, then expecting managers to be automatic ambassadors for change is unrealistic.

Coaching can guide an organisation’s managers to work through change in a coordinated way toward a common goal.

Soft Skills:

Post pandemic, an organisation’s teams may be in different locations and are often working from home. Managers must maintain effective lines of communication and nurture team spirit in an online environment. Managing people when they struggle to balance work and family life at home; coupled with the new phenomenon of “zoom fatigue” presents leaders with real challenges.

Coaching can equip managers with the essential soft skills required to guide their teams through these uncertain times.

Diversity:

Organisations have eventually woken up to the need to be more inclusive and diverse. People from diverse backgrounds have too long been excluded from the workforce for myriad reasons including conscious/unconscious bias and unwillingness to challenge accepted norms.

Professional Coaching will help your leadership teams embrace new challenges and make the necessary adaptations to onboard a more diverse workforce. Coaching can also help if your organisation has the ambition to create professional development opportunities specifically designed for diverse talent.

Talent Mobility & Retention:

Many organisations put enormous emphasis on new recruitment. Far fewer are expert in nurturing the talent they already have. Many do not have any coherent plan for internal mobility and retention.

Investing in people is key to the strength of a company and essential for succession strategy. Coaching and guiding existing people guarantees that company culture is upheld and better working relationships developed. As such, talent mobility and retention is a foundation for growth.

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Testimonials

I have had the pleasure of working alongside Kirsten and watching her mentoring in action. She is passionate about her work and that comes across in everything she does. If you have Kirsten as your Mentor, you have your own personal champion, you know absolutely she is on your side, and you are never alone. She has that ability to properly listen, a deep thinker she has the remarkable skill to take complex concepts and translate them into easily understandable insights.

I feel very fortunate to have met Kirsten, she has invested time in me as her peer, helped my own personal growth and provided constructive feedback in our peer-to-peer sessions. There are not many mentors / coaches that I would trust with my own clients, but I would have no hesitation in ever recommending Kirsten.

Justine Upton, September 2023

Kirsten was extremely knowledgable, helpful and easy to talk to. She helped me navigate through some really tricky problems and has massively improved my confidence as a business leader.

Imogen Miller, July 2023

It has been wonderful experience and I have learnt so much from my coach about the structure of small medium business financial and management structure.
Especially she provided me knowledge on cashflow, balance sheet and profit and loss of the business and how to analyse these data for the future decision making on the sustainability of the business

Maha Rai, July 2023

I went to Kirsten thinking I had a few different issues I wanted to address. However, we quickly discovered that they all led to one main goal I needed to achieve. Kirsten helped me break it down into manageable chunks with regular check ins and adjustments to both hold me accountable and give me the helping hand I needed.

Kirsten explains from the start that only you can make a change – but having her there with all the tools and explanations got me to my goal and I can’t thank her enough. I couldn’t have done it without her.

Rhian Jennings, July 2023