The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.”

Pedrick (2021: p. 8) defines coaching in a further clear way as “a future-focused conversation between two people working in partnership in service of the thinking of one of them.”

Overall, coaching is therefore a dialogic process between you and your Coach. In Leadership Coaching the emphasis is on you as a human being and thus as a leader in challenging and complex leadership contexts.

Most organisations and companies today operate in a so-called VUCA world, e.g. leadership contexts that increasingly consist of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. That makes leadership challenging and very complex and often it entails both an international and virtual leadership dimension post-COVID.

Therefore, our Leadership Coaching will focus on you as a human being to create awareness about who you are as a leader. Typical themes in Leadership Coaching can be around how you can better handle transitions between different leadership Roles:

• How you create direction
• How you promote motivation
• How you drive task execution
• Team Building & development
• Your leadership style
• Driving Performance Management
• Stakeholder Management, e.g. influencing style and communication
• Energy management and time application as a leader

All of the above to create awareness on how you can bring the best of you as a leader forward while being impactful, yet in balance, to ensure well-being.

Coaching in general can be divided into three main coaching levels:

• Performance Coaching (Behavioural Coaching): Task-oriented focused on an outcome or goal
• Developmental Coaching: Focused on developing greater competence in a given area
• Transformative Coaching: Focused on creating perspective shifts by creating deeper self-awareness

The basis for our coaching is Transformative Coaching, i.e. coaching that creates positive human transformation and thereby positive and sustainable leadership change. However, I use an integrative approach, meaning that we can draw from a blend of Transformative Coaching, NLP etc. and flexibly use and move between the different coaching levels depending on the focus of you as a leader.

What is transformation? Transformation is sometimes characterised as a ‘light-bulb moment’ when someone sees, hears or experiences that something has changed significantly (Pedrick, 2021: p. 3). That is what Transformative Coaching can create, namely an awareness of your inner beliefs (limiting and contributing), assumptions, values and expectations and focus in life. Those areas all affect the leader you are or want to become, or have the potential to become. Our Coaching will help facilitate that transformative change for you as a leader.

As a professional Coach, my Leadership Coaching follows the rigorous standards of the ICF Code of Ethics and ICF Core Competencies by being a member of the ICF.

Below is outlined more in detail what coaching is and is not for your overview (adapted from Bolton, 2022).

Coaching is in essence:

1. Client-led: Sessions are led by you the Leader (client), not by the Coach
2. Dialogic: We will follow a process of conversation using questions and reflection
3. Client-initiated: Desired change by you as Leader (client) needs to be made by your own actions, not done for you
4. Non-advisory: You as Leader (client) comes to the best answers for yourself or gains learning at a deeper level
5. Non-judgemental: Your Coach is open-minded and respectful and does not judge what you bring forward
6. Change oriented: Focused on creating change rather than coping mechanisms, i.e. it has clear goals or outcomes
7. Focused on potential and growth: Assuming that people can grow and change for more well-being, realising their potential
8. Not Therapy: Where past trauma, mental or physical illnesses are diagnosed/treated (e.g. by psychotherapist or psychologist)

References.

¹Pedrick, C. (2021) Simplifying Coaching: How to Have More Transformational Conversations by Doing Less, 1st ed., London: Open University Press.

²Bolton, N. (2022) What Is Transformative Coaching? London: Animas Centre for Coaching.

So, Why choose a Leadership Coaching Programme?

Because coaching has multiple great benefits for oneself and for corporations and organisations.

In an impressive and extensive meta-analysis, Theeboom, Beersma and van Vianen (2014) explored if coaching could affect performance, well-being and skills. They did an extensive research of literature and brought many nuances and caveats from it and their conclusions were (Rogers, 2016: p. 283):

“The results show that coaching has significant positive effects on performance and skills, well-being, coping, work attitudes, and goal-directed self-regulation. In general, our meta-analytic findings indicate that coaching is an effective tool for improving the functioning of individuals in organisations.”

Our Leadership Coaching has a purpose of inspiring a healthy and sustainable human high performance, well-being and growth for you as leader through Transformative Coaching.

Transformative Coaching is a specific kind of coaching that can help create a more critical self-reflection and self-awareness for you as a leader and that can enable mental paradigm shifts. This enables you to unlock your full potential in leadership.

References.

¹Theeboom, T. and Beersma, B. and van Vianen, A. E. M. (2014) Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context, Journal of Positive Psychology 9(1): pp. 1-18.

²Rogers, J. (2016) Coaching Skills: The definitive guide to being a coach, 4th ed., Berkshire: Open University Press.

So, How do the Leadership Coaching Programmes work?

Our Leadership Coaching Programmes are typically based on 3-6 months, but can last up to 12 months depending on the leadership transition and role, complexity and the organisational context. It is fully client-led by you as a leader.

The Leadership Coaching aims to bring you transformative change as a leader and the coaching process ends upon successfully having achieved your leadership development goal or when ready to conclude the collaboration.

Coaching process:

1. Make a decision: The first initial step to begin a Leadership Coaching Programme is that you become curious about yourself and as a leader: that entails that you want to work on yourself as a human being and with your leadership as for you to positively change or develop as a leader. It might be through creating more awareness of your own leadership behaviours, values and beliefs affecting your leadership and energy management as to ensure your own and team’s physical and mental well-being.
   
   
2. Schedule Discovery Call: The second step is that you book an initial discovery call, which is a free initial calibration call prior to beginning the Leadership Coaching Programme to ensure good alignment between us and to provide overview of the Leadership Coaching Programme.
   
   These topics will be covered in the discovery call:

   – Get to know each other, build rapport and explore personal chemistry
   – An overview on the value of your Leadership Coaching Programme
   – Clarity about confidentiality and ethics involved in our Leadership Coaching collaboration
   – Discovering what topic(s) within Leadership you would like to work on short- and long-term
   

3. Deeper Signals Core Drivers and Core Values Personality Assessment: The third step is to take Deeper Signals personality assessment prior to the first coaching session to build self-awareness (takes app. 15 min).
   
   
4. Begin Leadership Coaching Programme: The fourth step is for us to decide on the most valuable Leadership Coaching Programme for you to invest in the programme and benefit the most as a leader. 
   
   
5. First Leadership Coaching session: The fifth step is the first Leadership Coaching session. All Coaching conversations are unique and a Leadership Coaching session commonly follows a process that consists of a beginning, middle and an end, i.e.:
   
   1) Part one focuses on rightsizing the conversation in partnership with you: clarifying what the conversation should be about today and what Leadership topic you want to bring forward

   2) Part two consists of open questions by your Coach in the dialogue around the topic to explore and create self-awareness3) Part three focuses on your learnings from the session and the choices, actions and commitments agreed upon by you

   We agree on how to follow up, e.g. at the next Leadership Coaching session(s).

6. Transformative change: Lastly, a Leadership Coaching Programme typically ends by successfully having achieved your leadership development goal or transformative change in your leadership.

1:1 Leadership Coaching Programme:

The offered Leadership Coaching is typically based on a 3 or 6 month programme, but can last up to 12 months depending on the leadership transition and role, complexity and the organisational context.

Main target group: 

New and more seasoned Leaders (Leader of Others, Leader of Leaders, Functional Leaders and Business Leaders) in Corporations and Organisations.

All Leadership Coaching Programmes include:

• 1 x 30 minute free discovery call prior to starting the Leadership Coaching Programme. This is to calibrate and ensure there is a good fit between you and your Coach.
• 2 x 60 minute 1:1 Leadership Coaching sessions per month (Zoom or in person)
• 1 x 60 minute Nature immersion sessions (coaching session outdoor in nature) every quarter in Zealand, Denmark
• 1 x Deeper Signals Core Drivers and Core Values personality assessment to build self-awareness (takes app. 15 min)
• Unlimited access to Coach via email and WhatsApp (typically replies within 24 hours)

Additional support options that can be added:

• Benefit from bespoke 1 x 360° Leadership assessment interview (survey) feedback

Programme investment:
All prices are including VAT.

• 3-month programme: €2660 / 19.950 DKK
• 6-month programme: €4620 / 34.650 DKK

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