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Hi, I’m Karen Smart, Head of Consultancy here at the AoEC. And I’m happy to share with you today some of the ways in which we’re supporting organisations to use a coaching approach.

Increasingly today, life is complex. And that makes leadership ever more complex. One of the best ways to show up as a leader is to be one that’s self-aware, be capable, but also be willing to share our vulnerability. And that involves deep self-discovery. A coaching approach is a great way to achieve this.

Well, we’ve worked with many organizations over the last 10 years. And what we’ve learned is that coaching can be really helpful in many ways. So we know that it has an impact on retaining talent, and that it can help people to feel more engaged at work. A coaching approach can be really useful working at senior levels. And for example, team coaches can bring a lot of awareness to boards. And having better connections and better interpersonal relationships is really brilliant way to get improved board effectiveness.

 We also use a coaching approach to help to promote well-being within the workforce, within teams. And that experience of being heard, of feeling heard is a real positive step in that direction.

And we also find that when we integrate our coaching approaches into what good work is already being done within an organization, that it can have an enhancing capability on top of whatever initiatives are already going on such as employee surveys or personal development plans.

The AoEC has four key areas where we can support with a coaching approach. One is, coaching as a line manager, we can help to upskill new line managers and help them to move from that functional expertise towards a management expertise use with a coaching style. We also help with executive coaching services drawing from our faculty and alumni. It may be that you want to develop your own coaching capability in-house and we can certainly help activate coaching in your organisation. We have plenty of experience with that. And we can also help board and team effectiveness.

Every engagement with each organisation starts with deep listening and a conversation that helps us to really understand what’s going to make a difference for you. We’d be delighted to have that conversation.

So if you follow the links in the video, you can find out more and book a time to talk to us. We look forward to it. Thank you.

Our expertise is to support coaching in companies