role consultancy / coaching
Role consultancy provides an opportunity for managers, leaders and staff at all levels to examine the ways in which they take up their work role, and to explore personal effectiveness and consequent impact on their areas of responsibility.
My preference for the term role consultancy, rather than coaching, reflects the emphasis that my approach places on the different elements that shape how a particular individual inhabits their specific work role at a given time. These elements include: organisational culture, system and purpose; scope and task of the work role; personal and organisational notions of authority and leadership. Read more…
ORGANISATIONAL CONSULTANCY
Supporting managers and leaders to achieve their ambitions by bringing under the surface dynamics and obstacles into focus.
Managers and leaders often find that day-to-day objectives, project aims, strategic priorities and healthy staff wellbeing aren’t consistently achieved. This can happen despite planning and care, and sometimes it can be challenging to work out why.
Often, factors such as change, structure, capability, personality and management style are quickly identified as roots of the problem. Those issues may be part of a picture, but organisational consultancy aims to support managers and leaders to surface the harder to reach emotional and systemic dimensions at play, enabling authentic and lasting new perspectives. Find out more…
supervision for managers
A regular (usually monthly) one-to-one, supportive space for managers and leaders to reflect on the dynamics of organisational culture, leadership, and emotions.
Managers and leaders routinely perform their roles in pressured environments, with little time and space to think and reflect. In addition to the explicit elements of their role, managers and leaders also act (knowingly and unknowingly) as emotional containers for staff and the wider organisation, and play a pivotal part in the ‘emotional life’ of their workplace.
The impact of these elements of management and leadership are often unattended to, and may negatively affect wellbeing, job satisfaction and effectiveness. Read more…