Leadership Foundation

Coaching

Leadership coaching with the Leadership Foundation: effective, professional and designed for you.

We have brought together a network of executive coaches who are able to provide leadership coaching to the highest standards, enhancing organisational effectiveness.

What to know more? Here we answer some frequently asked questions:

• What is Leadership Coaching?
• Why choose our coaching service?
• Coaching for personal and professional development
• Coaching for departmental and executive teams
• Coaching for organisational development

Read an article from Engage 25: 'Using coaching to help manage underperformance' by Wendy Rose, a Leadership Foundation Associate

More information is available in the brochure Leadership Coaching Service

What is leadership coaching?

Leadership coaching unlocks a leader's potential, enabling positive individual and organisational change. It's a secure, confidential space in which leaders are supported and challenged to reflect, discuss and take action.

Leadership coaching benefits both the individual and the organisation as a whole – it's explicitly directed at improving an individual’s leadership capability, so helping their organisation to thrive.

Why choose our coaching service?

As the largest specialist provider of leadership development to higher education we have a unique understanding of the complex challenges faced by vice-chancellors, pro-vice-chancellors, senior managers, academics and higher education professionals as they pursue their leadership goals.

All of our accredited, quality-assured coaches are experienced in higher education as well as having complementary experience in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Our diverse range of coaches means we can offer different styles, approaches and coaching expertise, from the most senior to more general team coaches, and we always carefully match you with the best possible coach for your needs.

Currently our coaching programmes are available at three different levels:

1. Coaching for personal and professional development
2. Coaching for departmental and executive teams
3. Coaching for organisational development

Read an article from Engage 25: 'Using coaching to help manage underperformance' by Wendy Rose, a Leadership Foundation Associate

More information is available in the brochure Leadership Coaching Service

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Coaching for personal and professional development

One-to-one executive coaching for senior leaders:

• Provides feedback about leadership style to improve leadership skills.
• Builds confidence and sets leadership direction.
• Helps leaders to negotiate the relationship between strategic leadership and operational issues.
• Supports leaders as they manage change.
• Offers space to reflect, away from daily pressures.

One-to-one career coaching programmes include:

• First 100 days coaching for newly appointed leaders.
• Coaching for promotion: develop gravitas and presence.
• Transition coaching into a new role or retirement.

Back to work coaching: encouragement and a confidential sounding board for returning leaders.

• Career reviews: clarify strengths and needs to create a career plan.
• Career plan implementation and CV/interview skills.
• Psychometrics and 360 appraisals.

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Coaching for departmental and executive teams

Paired coaching can:

• Provide mediation for pairs with performance, management or other challenges.
• Encourage and guide pairs working towards goals or projects.
• Strengthen communication between the pair, improving effectiveness.

Team coaching can:

• Enable teams to get the most out of their collective skills and strengths.
• Support established teams working towards organisational or team objectives.
• Strengthen cohesion within newly formed teams.
• Support teams facing organisational change or restructuring.

Group coaching can:

• Improve cross-departmental collaboration to share perspectives and promote idea generation.
• Encourage networking and opportunities for growth.

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Coaching for organisational development

Leadership coaching can be successfully embedded into your organisation's development strategy. We offer a range of in-house programmes to support you in this. These include:

Feedback and coaching: this course gives you the practical tools to deliver powerful and constructive feedback to your staff, peers and seniors while also enhancing working relationships.

Essentials of coaching supervision: aimed at HR professionals, coaches and supervisors working in higher education, this course enables institutions to provide affordable, relevant and effective supervision of their coaches and mentors.

Essentials of coaching for results: This workshop, for academic and professional services staff, encourages managers to use coaching to improve performance.

Setting up a coaching and mentoring academy

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Contact Us

For UK Consultancy Requirements
Sweta Purohit, Consultancy Business Manager
T: 020 3468 4823

For International Consultancy Requirements
David Lock, Director of International Projects
T: +44 (0) 7900 056 707