Leadership coaching and mentoring


Future in Focus offers executive coaching to improve individual and organisational performance.

Current clients include both senior and junior staff working in the not for profit and commercial sector. The issues they are concerned about include:

  • Delivering their corporate objectives to achieve impact and personal recognition
  • Overcoming barriers in a change management cycle
  • Strategy development and delivery
  • Career planning and development
  • Handling workplace dynamics whilst ensuring delivery of objectives
  • Work/life balance
  • Increasing influencing skills
  • Family and personal problems
To explain coaching to our clients, we offer the excellent Jenny Roger’s definition:* The coach works with clients to achieve speedy, increased and sustainable effectiveness in their lives and careers through focused learning. The coach’s sole aim is to work with the client to achieve all of the client’s potential – as defined by the client.

What can coaching achieve? In our experience, based on the feedback we have received, clients all report tangible benefits. They have described these as:

  • Feeling energised, empowered (and ‘happier’!) by being able to think through their goals, both work and personal, in a confidential setting
  • Greater self awareness leading to improved management of people
  • Influencing upwards to resolve situations they had found frustrating
  • Rehearsing for difficult meetings such as conflict resolution
  • Unravelling complex work and personal problems
  • Honing cv’s, presentation and interview skills
  • Finding courage to make timely, and necessary lifestyle changes
The need for coaching is usually triggered by change, and the client must want to change as well if they are to benefit from it. Middle managers are increasingly a key potential beneficiary for coaching. For example, recent research of 1000 managers in the private and public sectors (CHA consultants) highlights the changes for individuals brought about by organisational streamlining, where company policy is to shorten the chain of command, and to use outsourcing. In this scenario, managers are key to communicating with staff and to maintaining morale whilst also ensuring delivery in a competitive environment. 25% of those interviewed asked for coaching to make them more confident as communicators, to deliver organisational plans and goals.

*Coaching Skills A Handbook Jenny Rogers 2004

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