Leadership
Leadership and Management
Do you have what it takes to be a leader of your own business or project?
Being a leader gives you alot of responsibility in terms of managing a team, meeting clients needs and dealing with finances. A leader is constantly learning, developing and applying their knowledge to succeed in their role.
Being the leader of a company can be a lonely position, with few people to turn too. For this reason, many Executive Directors of Corporations have a personal coach. Someone they use as a sounding board to guide them to success and make the journey a focused, fruitful and enjoyable one.
Need some help?
Are you:
- Looking to develop your personal leadership and management style?
- Seeking direction as a new or existing leader?
- Wanting to develop and lead your team effectively?
- Anticipating the next steps of your business journey and development?
- Looking to fine-tune your skills and take your business to the next level?
As a leader of a business you face many challenges. Firstly you must manage yourself, your organisation and employees to continuing success effectively; you must inspire and motivate yourself and your team; and lead them to success, towards fulfilling the vision of your venture.
Our Business Coaches can help you:-
- Review your current circumstances and requirements
- Provide motivational and professional support
- Determine your future goals, objectives and needs.
- Develop you and your team to achieve results
- Achieve work life balance by managing the balance of your business, life and career ambitions.
- Discuss your experiences as a manager, to review and polish your approach to effective leadership.
Our coaching and training is provided on a chargeable basis, but we can access funding to provide free business support to certain groups of entrepreneurs who meet the eligibility of the funding provider. Please enquire to find out more.
To enquire about Leadership Coaching call 0845 452 4085 or email
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Useful Articles
Overcoming Fear
Often when embarking on a new venture or trying to do something that historically we haven’t enjoyed doing, we can get so bogged down in what might go wrong that we end up never doing it.
This negative self chatter is the reason that people stay on jobs they hate, never say what they really think or end up doing things that the feel resentful about.
So what’s going on?
Managing your stress to ensure success for you and your company
Simon Ireland-Davies, provides some top tips on how to manage stress in the workplace.
While some stress is a normal part of life, excessive stress interferes with your productivity and reduces your physical and emotional health, so it’s important to find ways to keep it under control. Fortunately, there is a lot that you can do to manage and reduce stress at work.
Managing Your Emails
'No email' Fridays... or just ‘double email' Mondays?
There was a great episode of BBC's Money Programme a few weeks ago. It was an episode that focused on email and the stress it causes in offices.
We live in the "Information Age", where information has never been so readily available. In fact, our people these days are bombarded. David Allen, the author of "Gettings Things Done" was asked in an interview what's changed in the world and his response was "Nothing. Just the speed and volume of whatever we're dealing with". I think this information overload - from email, and indeed from all sides! - is a much bigger challenge than we realize.
Generating Personal Power
As a leader it is important to establish personal power to achieve the success you want.
Power gives you the confidence and ability to make decisions, to influence, to negotiate, to lead a team, and to ultimately fulfil your potential.
So how do you generate personal power as a leader in your field? Read on to find out more:-
Using Coaching to Boost Team Performance
Nine out of 10 organisations are now using coaching to help boost staff performance, despite a cut in budgets for training according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ’s annual survey Taking the Temperature of Coaching, which found a sharp increase in the use of coaching as a training tool. Previous surveys found that only seven in 10 firms were using coaching.
Commenting on whether employers were turning to coaching as an alternative to class room based training, the CIPD’S John McGurk says:
“There are lots of good reasons to question the value of classroom-based training because there is the issue that its high profile and expensive in difficult economic times. Coaching can be costly, but once you have got coaching resources in place, it is relatively cheap to keep it going”.
Download the CIPD report Taking the Temperature of Coaching [pdf document]
What can coaches do for your team?
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Increase employees’ awareness of career paths and enhance fit to achieve “right person/right job”
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Improve the capability of both employees and the client orgnaisation to manage constant change and transition
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Provide and model communication styles that enhance internal problem solving skills, appreciate differences and lead to long-term progress, rather than create dependency on the coach
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Promote a win-win balance of work/life priorities, using the desired states of both employees and organisation as benchmarks
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Guide organisational systems to evolve their culture by increasingly valuing their employees, implementing career development as a priority and optimising human capital
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Blend training, organisational development, career/employee development and coaching at every level in the organisation.
Could you benefit from having a coaching development programme in your organisation?
Striding Out specialises in coaching entrepreneurs and their teams to help them achieve business success. Funding is also available to businesses with 5 or more employees to help cover the costs. Email us to find out more This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it