Executive & Leadership Coaching
Developmental
Coaching is an integral investment in cultivating human potential!
Our evidence based and client focussed coaching programmes are tailored towards enhancing insight and self awareness, sense of agency and propensity to act in alignment with goals and core values!
Options include:
Coaching for Change
A collaborative and confidential space for individuals to:
- Carve out goals, aspirations and desired vision of success,
- Enhance self awareness including strengths, potential roadblocks, obstacles and resources
- Mobilise agency and actions to get there!
Being Intelligent with Your Emotions
For individuals seeking to enhance people and leadership skills through:
- Self awareness and interpersonal insight,
- More informed ‘in the moment’ judgements and decisions,
- Self and other emotional management skills,
- Tailored and adaptive communication.
Coaching with Karen
As a Coach, Karen is particularly experienced working with professionals and leaders navigating high performance environments, promotions or increased complexity, potential career change and transition, or redundancy.
Karen’s coaching is personalised, goal-focused, affirmative and collaborative. Distinguished by natural rapport, trust and alliance she establishes with a diversity of clients, she has partnered with emerging leaders, mid-career professionals, executives and business owners on programmes geared towards:
Reflection and insight,
Self and other awareness,
Clarity in thinking,
Sense of agency to make adaptive behavioural changes.
Qualified as a Psychologist and ICF Coach, she integrates research from applied neuroscience, developmental psychology as well as cognitive-behavioural, solution focussed and strength based models to inform coaching conversations.
Karen is accredited in a number of psychometric instruments which can be incorporate to enhance clients’ insight about how underlying personality preferences, temperament and patterns of behaviours can affect leadership, relationships and performance.
Areas of expertise include:
Coaching for Change
A confidential and tailored engagement, which clearly defines the coaching goals and relationships to all parties. Where organisationally sponsored, we encourage incorporation of a three-way meeting, including the counterpart and line Manager or HR.
At the outset, goals clearly defined alongside meaningful metrics for evaluation of progress and outcomes.
Coaching takes into consideration all aspects of counteparts’ professional and personal landscape including intrapersonal factors (e.g. drivers, thoughts, beliefs, assumption, values), interpersonal relations, organisational context and strategic direction and broader institutional factors.
WorkPsych’s Coaching for Change Framework:
Increasing presence and visibility
Leadership derailers and blind spots
Influence and communication
Assertiveness
Confidence and strengths
Emotional Intelligence
Authentic relationships and stakeholder / interpersonal management
Self management including emotional regulation / mood management
Wellbeing including: balance and boundaries, energy management, building emotional resilience and identification of meaning and purpose
Delineating career direction: Who and what next?
Values clarification
Being Intelligent with Your Emotions
Deep Dive and EI
Underpinned by research from applied neuroscience and developmental psychology, this coaching programme incorporates a ‘deep dive’, alongside a well researched assessment of emotional intelligence (MSCEIT 2) with the aim of enhancing emotional insight, interpersonal awareness and capacity to use emotionally related data to bring the best out of self and others, even during the most dynamic, unexpected and challenging interpersonal interactions!
The key takeaways:
Develop your capacity to become more intune your emotions, through connecting with what is happening in your body when triggered by events, situations and interactions, and identifying how such emotions impact on your thoughts, feelings and reactions.
Learn to 'read between the lines' through observing others' facial expressions and non-verbal communication, and intelligently use emotionally-related information to make 'in the moment' decisions to optimise your interpersonal interactions.
Enhance your capacity to inspire and foster trust through better understanding and responding to your team members’ and stakeholders' underlying emotional needs.
Cultivate a healthy working culture, through developing the skills to constructively navigate potential points of difference and conflict.
Boost resilience and adaptability through proactively managing your own and others' response to increased pressure, change and work related stressors.
The results of Second Edition (MSCEIT® 2)
include a total EI score as well as scores on four key domains:
Perceiving Emotions
The skill to:
- Recognise how you are feeling as well as how others are feeling around you.
- Identifying and paying attention to your own somatic and sensory cues.
- Read nonverbal cues including facial expression, gestures, tone, and body language.
- Pick up emotional cues from the environment.
Connecting Emotions
The skill to connect with and generate emotions and reason with emotional information.
Understanding Emotions
The skill to understand the meaning of emotions and appreciate that emotions and feelings are complex and nuanced (not black or white) and can transition from one state to another (emotional forecasting/foresight).
Managing Emotions
The skill which enables you to effectively manage emotions in yourself and others.