Are you a mid-level leader who wants to accelerate and sustain the development of your leadership skills? You want to be noticed for tackling the hard stuff, having real impact in your organisation whilst really looking after your people?
This coaching package is for leaders focused on building the skills and habits of long-term excellence in leadership through actively stretching themselves, deepening their learning through consistent reflection and building the confidence to consistently tackle challenging opportunities and thrive in complexity.
Duration
12 Months
Package includes
- Initial exploratory session, assessment and feedback collecting.
- 6-monthly feedback collecting from up to 5 peers, team members or senior leaders
- Up to 3 hours of coaching per month, to use as you wish in 15 – 180 min sessions
- All resources, tools & frameworks shared or created for you during the program
- Unlimited support via text in relation to all emerging leadership issues during each month
- Review of your CV and support crafting key emails, documents and applications
- Access to Nurturing Confidence online short programs for 12 months after completion of your coaching experience
Want to know more about coaching with me at Nurturing Confidence:
Coaching with Nurturing Confidence you will become a more effective communicator and leader. You will develop new skills, become more confident and feel more calmly in control of your work and life.
Who is it for?
We work with mid-level leaders in large organisations and senior leaders in small to medium sized organisations – with professionals who recognise that they need to think and behave more strategically, to have greater impact in complex workplaces. (typically AO6 – Director level)
When you finish coaching with Nurturing Confidence you will have:
- Increased confidence to tackle challenging people, problems and opportunities
- Stronger relationships with team, peers and leaders above you
- Individualised, practical, leadership toolkit that you use regularly & consistently
- Enhanced self-awareness with increased capacity to articulate strengths, development areas and the value you bring to your organisation
- Feel more in control of your time and workload, less stressed and enjoying your life beyond work.
Methodology
Beginning with a 1.5-hour exploratory session and self-assessment to understand your current situation and development stage, seeking feedback from peers, team members and leaders above you (if desired), we will co-create a development program that helps you more confidently tackle the challenges you are currently facing, whilst also preparing you to step up into more next step opportunities.
Each coaching journey is unique, it is an individualised development program honed to meet your specific needs as an emerging leader. We will cover the following elements of leadership in greater or lesser depth and breadth depending on your specific experience and development needs.
- Knowing Myself - Core Values, Strengths & Mindset of a Leader
Cultivating Self-awareness and transformation towards your identity as an effective, confident Leader, Why you are a Leader, Your Vision for your own Career, What really drives your behaviour, How to do more of what you do best, navigating the transition from Do-er to Leader
- Understanding my Value
Understanding your unique expertise, articulating its strategic value to your organisation, stakeholders and future opportunities
- Managing my Workload & Priorities
Crafting your individualised strategies for sustainable workload and long-term well-being whilst achieving career growth
- Deliver on My Commitments
Self-accountability and visible delivery for all stakeholders to build trust, intentional reputation building through communicating outcomes and collaborative results
- Managing my Emotions
Skills for self-regulating and creating a gap between reaction and response, habits for thriving in the complex busyness, increasing confidence, resilience and learning how to support the development of this in your people
- Creating time to think Strategically
Articulating and sharing a vision; establishing habits, both preparational and conversational, for consistently taking a strategic perspective
- Walk my Talk
Are my behaviours aligned with my words, does my impact align with my intention, how do others perceive my leadership and how can I purposefully shape that perception to support the bigger picture of the work
- Building and leveraging relationships
Understanding and building strategic network, understanding individuals within close network and how to enhance relationships to co-create better results
- Timely, effective Communication
Processes and strategies for adaptive communication that informs, influences and sustains strategic momentum; specific skills for more effective conversations, email & chat communication and effective contribution in meetings
- Clear Expectations and Accountability
Team leadership in ways that make it easy for people to deliver what you want them to deliver
- Provide Feedback
Clear, direct feedback is key to high performance; developing skills to both give and receive such feedback in timely, regular, meaningful ways
- Help by Listening and Asking, not Giving Answers
Skills in taking a coaching-approach to build capacity, resilience and confidence in team members, peers and senior leaders
- Leading a Learning Mindset
Accepting and encouraging experimental process towards outcomes, creating psychologically safe team environments where mistakes are learning opportunities, sustaining continuous growth and improvement
- Stepping up to Powerful Conversations
Communicating consistently in ways that are comfortable in the uncomfortable, allow difficult conversations to become transformative conversations
- Leveraging difference, diversity and disagreement
Working with the differences to maximise potential of the team, create opportunities for everyone and deliver high performance
- Leading Upwards
Communicating for impact, managing information flows, capacity building and expanding influence through effectively and proactively managing your relationships with leaders above you
- Bringing Teams Together
Processes to facilitate growth within your team, growing cohesive teams that get the hard stuff done
- Meetings that Matter
Cutting back and transforming meeting overload, leading value-adding meetings, preparing quickly for maximum impact, contributing in the moment with clarity and influence.
Between each coaching conversation you will take experimental action in your workplace, immediately applying your learning to your real-life. You will think deeply on yourself as a leader through guided daily, weekly and monthly reflections. You will do hard things differently, and sustainably grow yourself as a leader.