LEADERSHIP COACHING
'NOTHING'S CHANGED BUT EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT'
PERHAPS...
- you’re feeling overwhelmed, insecure or powerless,
- you don’t feel confident leading your team,
- you’re struggling having difficult conversations with your colleagues,
- you don’t know how to be yourself and flourish in your leadership,
- you don’t feel connected to your inner power and strength, or
- you’re looking for your next career move?
EMPOWERING YOUR LEADERSHIP
Leadership does not happen in isolation. It happens in relationships: primarily your relationship with self, and also your relationship with others. Let me explain.
As humans we tend to carry around old unhelpful beliefs that disempower us and keep us small; stories we repeat to ourselves… mindsets and narratives that might have helped us, (for example stay safe) decades ago, but which now are actually holding back our leadership. Right now, as you read this, you might be aware of some of your limiting stories, but it’s possible some might be playing out without you even being aware. And while we might think our team or colleagues can’t observe what’s going on inside us, these stories actually leak out in our behaviours and rituals and impact how we lead others.
Not only that, but we also have inner superpowers we’re often not aware of – inner strengths, skills and tools that could help our leadership flourish. So, you, your leadership and your team might miss out on those.
To make this even more challenging, leaders are mostly under tremendous pressure with constant change, deliver more with less, be focused on tasks, and on what needs to be done. So, we don’t do our inner work on ourselves, don’t get conscious on how we are being, and continue those unhelpful behaviours. Things never change.
But… if you take time and deeply connect to yourself and all your wonder and wisdom, you will raise your self-awareness, see more possibilities, and as a result, your leadership will shift.
Leadership coaching will help you connect to your inner truth. You will learn about yourself and your leadership. You’ll feel more empowered to be the leader you want to be. You’ll connect to your true self and all its powerful resources. You’ll get clear on what makes you, you. You’ll get clarity on why you are here. You’ll create and put into practise a suite of empowering tools, learn how to bring out your individual magic and enhance your leadership skills with your team. It’s all about helping you connect to your inner superpowers.
The result will be you showing up more authentically, consciously, and resiliently… you following systems-inspired leadership, positively impacting those around you, having purpose and driving real change, leading the agenda, having more courage to make a stand for what matters, leading with your heart and gut.
You, connected to self and empowered… being the leader you want to be.
Leadership coaching can be difficult: reflecting on soul-searching questions and confronting your truths can require tremendous courage. It is also adventurous, uplifting, inspiring and invigorating. I’ll bring my full self… my boldness, so I’ll call things out. I’ll be vulnerable myself to invite your vulnerability. I’ll be empathetic and compassionate when you need more heart. I’ll be enthusiastic and passionate to help your over your edges, and use my purposeful humour to help you navigate this skilfully.
LEADERSHIP COACHING SERVES YOUR ORGANISATION’S NEEDS
If you’re considering leadership coaching for colleagues in your organisation, a lot of what I’ve spoken about is personal development but let’s not forget this all helps enhance their leadership abilities. To be clear – having experienced leadership coaching, your leaders will perform better. I’m certain.
The bottom line is that leadership coaching serves crucial business needs:
- Increased confidence and engagement
- Improved ability to navigate change
- Greater resilience and stress management
- Improved collaboration in the workplace
- Enhanced communication skills
- Better productivity
HOW THIS WORKS: MY 4-STEP PROCESS
Leadership coaching follows my 4-step Discovery, Design, Delivery and Deploy process:
Discovery starts with a 30-minute Chemistry Call (on Zoom) where we’ll meet up, discuss your relationship issue and crucially, see how we fit together.
Then typically, but not always, we’ll use the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), a true breakthrough 360° assessment tool that very quickly answers the question: “How are my behaviors and mindset enabling or constraining my intended leadership impact and our business performance?”
The LCP is one of the most comprehensive leadership assessments available. It is the first to connect a well-researched suite of competencies, shown to be the most critical behaviours and skill sets for leaders, with the underlying and motivating habits of thought and inner states of being. It brings the key issues to the surfaces instantly, thus accelerating the leadership coaching.
After the 360° assessments are completed, at the Debrief Call we will explore your Leadership Circle Profile and what challenges it’s pointing to.
I’ll then Design a bespoke programme delivering relevant leadership models plus coaching conversations for us to explore and unlock your leadership potential.
In Delivery our journey unfolds! Each coaching session is 60 minutes with email support between sessions. At times it might feel more conversational, at other times more structured as we, for example, explore a model together and get curious about how it relates to what’s currently going on in your leadership and points to what’s next for you. At times it’ll feel structured, at others edgy, challenging, even disruptive. But always learning!
Where relevant, I’ll send you useful tools, models or exercises as a follow up to our coaching sessions to give you additional support. And you get my 100% commitment to your leadership and you achieving your goals.
You will have 6 or 12 leadership coaching sessions, typically every three to four weeks, with flexibility so it’s right for your personal experience and needs. The leadership coaching sessions on Zoom.
Then Deploy, where you get to apply your learnings from the sessions into real life, practice new mindsets, behaviours to make the shifts you’re looking for. This is about – with your increased awareness – taking responsibility for how you show up as a leader. The outcome of these actions creates new learnings (Discovery) which you will bring to the next leadership coaching sessions for even more opportunities for growth in your leadership!
In summary:
- 1 x 30-minute Chemistry Call to brief me on your leadership challenges
- 1 x Leadership Circle Profile Assessment and Debrief Call
- 6 or 12 leadership coaching sessions
- Additional support: useful tools, models or exercises as a follow up to our team coaching sessions
Contact me to request more information or set up that Chemistry Call. I’d love to understand exactly what you want so we can ensure this will work for you.
CLIENTS*
I’ve been trusted as a leadership coach, team coach or facilitator, either directly or through partnerships or associations by people at: AB InBev, Axxon Media, Bedales School, Blu449, Capita, Cisco, DAN, Fibre , Fircroft Primary School, Havas, Intercom, Iris, J&J, IKEA, Landmark, Linamar, LinkedIn, Mars Petcare, Matillion, McCann, Nokia, PA Consulting Puma, Rothesay Life, Salesforce, Save the Children, SAP, St George’s University, The Trade Desk, Vilniaus, Volvo, Westminster Drug Project.
CLIENT OUTCOMES
“Duncan has provided me with an excellent opportunity to work on my leadership skills by challenging me each session around how I work with my team and peers. This has been extremely valuable, and I feel that I have gained a real insight in to how I might better lead my teams and about how my behaviour can both positively and negatively impact on people. There were quite a few light bulb moments! I am truly indebted to Duncan for his investment in me.” (AW)
“I met Duncan at Conscious Leadership during 2017. He’s been my coach since. Duncan has more compassion and enthusiasm for his job and for people than almost anyone I’ve ever been with. It’s amazing how he is able to connect with you and help you during coaching sessions. I definitely recommend Duncan, a great talent everyone wants to work with.” (Luis Palacios, Senior Business Leader, Cisco)
“Duncan is a curious, powerful leadership coach, with a generous heart. His magic is in the way he brings all of himself to the coaching, getting alongside you in the ‘sandpit of you’ as a provocative playmate.” (JP)
“The sessions with Duncan have been really beneficial and have allowed me to find out some really interesting things about myself. I have learned how I can adapt my approach and interactions to get the best out of me and other people, enabling me to become a more effective leader. He has helped me develop ways to deal with situations using my own knowledge and self-awareness. It’s been an enjoyable process and one which has challenged me.” (Head of Investment, Blue 449)
“I came out not only feeling positive myself, but motivated to think about my leadership and make the changes that would improve it. I feel clearer in myself and know about what I want, who I am and where I’m going.” (KB)