Executive Coaching

Kit James

The ability to get the best out of your team is often overlooked, as is creating the right culture but the facts are that businesses that get this right simply are more successful.

Kit and his team of carefully pre-selected coaches specialise in working with Founders, CEOs and entrepreneurs of SMEs at the many different stages of their careers.

We are expert at supporting you as you build your businesses and adept at challenging you to focus your attentions in the most productive way to ensure success for that stage of the business development.

As a business grows so priorities change and we are on hand to point these out.

Investing in leaders has a ripple affect that can be enormous.

We help you achieve this.

Individual Coaching

Group Coaching

You Are

Feeling frustrated at the lack of clarity needed for real business growth.
Feeling very busy… but not quite sure what you are achieving.
Being unclear on how to lead for this stage of the business cycle.
Life/work balance is horribly out of whack and your personal relationships are suffering as a result.

We Can

Ensure you achieve that clarity and come up with a strategy to communicate it effectively.
Enable you to prioritise the actions that will REALLY grow your business.
Support you to be an effective leader for this stage of the business cycle.
Reduce your stress levels whilst fast tracking business growth.

You Are

Not understanding why your Senior Leadership team is not working well together
Unclear on how to create the culture you want
Struggling with demotivated/leaving workforce
Lack of accountability in the business

Sound Like You?

We Can

Facilitate improved communication, clear goals and measurable outcomes
Draw out the necessary leadership skills to maximise growth
Co-create a clear understanding of your desired culture and a proactive strategy to execute it
Slow you down to speed you up!

Sound Like a Plan?

The Hero Process

What Is It?

A bespoke year long programme, that supports businesses in a pro-active way to create the right leadership and culture as their business grows. This enables founders and business leaders to create the business in their own vision whilst ensuring that they do not fall into the usual traps and, at the same time, reduce stress and maintain a sensible life work balance.

WHY IS IT DIFFERENT?

The HERO process is a framework that is designed to support a business for a whole year (and sometimes longer). We are therefore able to measure achievements over a sensible length of time and also to ensure that the coaching methodologies and practices are properly embedded in the organisation leading to sustainable and measurable growth rather than an unsustainable ‘quick fix’ solution.

The HERO process has been designed to ensure that each and every element of the process can be created in a bespoke way for the business rather than a one formula fits all approach. As a result, we can co- create the programme that adds most value to YOUR business.

HHolistic analysis of your role in your business

Phase 1

1:1 coaching with CEO/Owner/Founder

2x I hour coaching sessions per month for 12 months. Additional weekly catch up calls/what’s app support as necessary

Typical areas covered:

Who you need to be as a leader for this business cycle
Key business hires/relationships and how to manage them
The culture you want to create
Defining your vision and how to communicate it
Implementation of the business strategy
How to deal with ‘roadblocks’
Measures of success
Sustainable growth whilst retaining control

EExecutive structure and trickle-down culture

Phase 2

Focused group coaching with the executive team to develop desired culture across the business.

Quarterly Group half day sessions with senior management team

Typical areas covered:

Defining the culture
Communicating the culture (walking the talk)
Where it is working
Where it is not working
How to improve staff retention / happiness
Open and honest feedback sessions

RRoadmap, vision, strategy implementation & communication

Phase 3

Supporting the creation of strategy surrounding communication and implementation both internally and customer facing:

Quarterly Group half day sessions with senior management team

Typical areas covered:

Defining the long-term vision
Scoping out the business strategy
Identifying key stakeholders
Identifying key business priorities
Communications strategy-internal
Communications strategy-external

OOwnership, operations and on-going

Phase 4

Supporting the ongoing strategy of business operations in order to avoid outsourcing to retain control of the results and ongoing business operations

Up to 6 1:1 coaching sessions with key individuals to ensure consistency and identify any additional support needed
Final day long workshop to review achievement and design on-going strategy

Typical areas covered:

Annual review of all areas
Feedback session across all areas
Areas that require improvement
On-going strategy
Measures of success
Who does what
Next stages

IGNITE

Re-Energise, Re-Engage, Re-Position Your teams in a Post Covid World

Are you struggling to re-energise your team in a post COVID world?
Do you find that creating the team ‘feeling’ is harder than it used to be?
Are you aware of individual issues in your team in the same way you used to be?
Is it a challenge to draw the collective energy from your team in a remote environment?
As a leader, is it hard to adapt your business to a post COVID world?
Are you worried that your business is not ‘fit for purpose’ in a post COVID world?
Could you do more to keep your people energised and engaged in the new world?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes …then get in touch for our complimentary briefing on IGNITE.

IGNITE combines the very latest in data analytics with a dedicated programme of both team and individual coaching to ensure your team is performing at an optimal level in a post COVID world.

To find out more please click here.

‘I took away a complete change of attitude towards life.’

P.B.

‘Kit will help you bring about deep and lasting change, not quick fixes like some coaches.’

R.S.

‘Collectively as a team, we came up with our brand values through our coaching. The team are backed by them. They believe in them.’

L.L.

‘Kit genuinely cares about the people he looks after.'

D.B.

‘Kit supports people both personally and professionally, striking that better ultimate balance and happiness.’

G.B.

‘Kit has a superpower - he listens to your complex, jumbled thoughts and somehow manages to synthesise them into something which suddenly makes sense.’

S.D.

‘Kit challenges you as a person to help understand yourself better.’

R.G.

‘Kit has a great ability to help people open up and explore areas that they haven't looked at, effectively untapping their potential.’

M.M.

‘Kit is so easy to talk to, so friendly, so open, so welcoming, you instantly have this trust and bond with him. He's a safe pair of hands.’

L.L.

‘Kit teaches you to slow down and to listen to all your senses in every possible way, to get you to a place where you can move forward in a much more balanced manner.’

K.A.

‘The support I didn't know I needed has been more powerful than the support I did know I needed. That's the value of a tremendous coach.’

D.B.

‘Kit allowed me to recognise my ability and be confident in the decisions I was making, rather than knowing the answer and hiding behind somebody else to deliver it.’

C.J.

‘Kit is not one-dimensional; he is interested in you, as a whole, and not just the part of you which led you to seek out a coach.’

A.L.

‘Kit is straight-talking, you might not always like what you hear but more often than not you need to hear it.’

C.V-T.

‘Kit has a great way of removing the bias and emotion from the thinking process which helps with making decisions.’

G.R.

‘The coaching process with Kit is about finding out what works for you internally, what your troubles are and how you can work past them to make good decisions about what you want to do in the future.’

A.R-L.

'Kit was the first person I heard say: "we are human beings and not human doings" – I have come to understand that with just being, clarity makes an appearance.'

A.L.

‘What Kit has a maturity in life and that comes with age and experience. You're getting good wisdom along with a good skilled and experienced coach.’

G.B.

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