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The coaching has helped both in achieving the goals I set out at the start of the sessions, but also a broader impact on my approach to work in general. It is these latter insights which I think have been the most valuable, as I can see taking them forwards for years to come.
Michael West, Deputy Chief Economist
UK Health Security Agency
Simon works with senior leaders in one-to-one executive coaching and with leadership teams in group coaching. Simon is also a certified Reflective Practice facilitator working with staff teams in charities and care organisations. Expand the sections below to read more about what kind of coaching could suit you.
The next step is a conversation. Simon will arrange time to talk through your requirements and questions on a no-obligation basis. A coaching or group work programme can be designed based on your particular situation and needs. Options range from a package of individual sessions to designing a large-scale scheme as part of a corporate leadership development programme.
Coaching to Suit You
Simon takes an approach to coaching that works with the whole person in relation to the dynamics of their role, team, and organisation. The person or team you wish to refer for coaching may bring a range of workplace issues, such as:
challenges with getting or taking up a new role
damaging levels of staff turnover
understanding and addressing issues with team dynamics and performance
conflict avoidance, unnecessary conflict, or bullying
navigating organisational change
feelings of ineffectiveness, anxiety or ‘imposter syndrome’
working though a specific business project or event
embracing diversity, neurodiversity, disability and menopause
maintaining wellbeing and balance
returning to work following parental leave or a career break
career coaching and interview preparation
Simon is accredited as a Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and follows the EMCC Global Code of Ethics.
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Work is a challenging place to be. The most competent senior leaders find themselves overwhelmed by their role’s demands and relationships. Simon’s coaching work builds on his own senior leadership experience with cross-functional teams of over 60 people in high-pressure organisations.
Senior leaders across a range of sectors have found executive coaching through the Challenge Yourself, Kindly approach to be liberating and transformative. Executive coaching consists primarily of one-to-one sessions, just client and coach, in person or online as needed. Coaching sessions provide a place where work is discussed, in confidence, with a trained professional. Many clients find a way to progress their performance and wellbeing simultaneously, moving past trading one off against the other. Organisations benefit from improvements in their leaders’ abilities to take up their leadership roles most fully and effectively, unlocking their maximum potential for solving business problems.
Simon works with start-ups, multinational firms and large public and third sector organisations. You may be commissioning a programme of coaching as a People professional, as someone who leads teams of managers, or for yourself. Coaching programmes range from short interventions with one or two individuals to centrally coordinated programmes covering whole departments or organisations.
Read testimonials about working with Simon in coaching, or visit the contact page to arrange an exploratory conversation.
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Teams and other work groups can be a fountain of creative productivity or a hotbed of conflict and waste. Pressure to deliver more output with limited resources can create an environment that brings out the best or the worst in your people. Investing in group coaching with Challenge Yourself, Kindly is an excellent way to reduce the risks and increase the benefits that teamwork brings to your organisation.
Delivered as a standalone programme, or alongside individual executive coaching, your people will be better at seeing the perspectives of others while assertively articulating their own. Conflict remains appropriate, contained and invigorating. Support, equity and bonding move from being buzzwords to being deep connections between team members. Awkward and counterproductive team dynamics and roles are discussed in a safe place and processed together as the team moves to new levels of excellence, performance and health.
Read testimonials about working with Simon in coaching, or visit the contact page to arrange an exploratory conversation.
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Reflective practice is a particular kind of group work done mainly in health and social care organisation teams, such as: addiction recovery, homelessness and supported housing, mental health and learning disability, custody and probation, youth and social work. These are rewarding but tough jobs for everyone from entry-level staff to senior leadership teams. Caseloads and the challenges vulnerable people are face keep increasing, while financial and other resources go the other way. People in the helping professions get squeezed in the middle, with the pressure coming out in conflict (interpersonal, or with the organisation), vicarious trauma, burnout, ill health (mental and physical), and staff turnover.
Challenge Yourself, Kindly provides a balanced framework for reflective practice groups, helping teams who deliver vital services to stay connected to both the beautiful and the challenging realities of their daily work. Colleagues are enabled to think compassionately and critically about their own and other people’s work, their reactions to extreme situations, and the effects that working with people in crisis have on people and team dynamics. A wealth of research evidence shows that teams receiving good quality reflective practice experience reduced health, performance and conduct problems; increased job enjoyment and satisfaction; greater staff retention and progression; and clear improvements in clinical outcomes for the people they work to support.
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