Coaching
Coaching for change, challenge and growth.
Coaching can improve your resilience.
What is coaching?
Coaching is about positive change and action. A coach facilitates learning, and empowers a coachee to help themselves by listening, questioning and challenging. This helps them to come to their own conclusions and determine their own next steps. Coaching is not advice from an expert, or a model of what to do.
Why Coaching?
Coaching improves your understanding of yourself and your resourcefulness. It develops your personal effectiveness, and your ability to handle change and challenge. It can help you focus and gain a better sense of direction or control.
A coach is a supportive listener, an impartial sounding board, and a non-judgemental professional.
Coaching puts you back in control. Coaching is about positive change and action. A coach facilitates learning and enables a coachee to help themselves unlock their inner resources and their personal and professional potential.
You work out what you want to focus on and how you will bring about your desired changes and actions. The coach provides the structure and challenge, and the coachee sets the agenda and identifies their own goals and actions.
How Can I Help?
I am an accredited ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Mentor with experience coaching educational leaders. I offer bespoke coaching packages for parents and schools.
I am passionate about the power of coaching. I understand how to maximise this power in schools and homes. I bring a wealth of experience from teaching and leading in a broad range of international and UK schools. I understand schools and the pressures that school leaders and parents face.
As your coach, I facilitate learning and enable you to unlock your inner resources and your personal and professional potential by providing time, structure and challenge.
As your coach, I can help you reframe and refocus.
Coaching can help you manage change and reduce stress by tackling workload and work-life balance.
Change
• Have you undergone unexpected or unwanted change and want to use it as an opportunity to grow?
• Do you feel stuck in a rut – you want to change but don’t know how?
• Is your desire for change (or a forced change) manifesting itself in worry, loss of sleep, physical and emotional?
Challenge
• Would you like to have protected time to focus on your needs?
• Would you like to talk through ideas and challenges with an impartial and non-judgemental professional?
• Are you struggling to achieve balance in your life?
Growth
• Are you looking for support to move from comfort or fear to learning and growth?
• Would you like to develop your self-knowledge: your motivations, your aspirations, your daily practices and your interactions?
• Would you like to set goals that enable you to achieve more in your life & career?
School Leaders
School leadership can be lonely, and many leaders do not feel they have support.
School leaders usually put others first. Leadership coaching has a trickle-down effect for your school: looking after yourself, and your needs, enables you to look after others better.
It has been widely documented that school leader stress and burnout was on the rise, even before the pandemic.. Excessive workload leading to poor work-life balance, inspection and accountability are the most common reasons for stress.
Investing in coaching is one of the most effective, and sustainable, ways to bring about change in yourself, and your school.
Parents
Caring for young people is arguably the most important job we will ever do, and yet comes with the least training. Being a parent or carer doesn’t always mean that you instinctively know what to do.
Parenting can be particularly challenging during times of change for you or your child/children, whether that be a new school year, exam stress or school and country moves..
Parents usually put their children first. Parent coaching has a trickle-down effect for your family: looking after yourself, and your needs, enables you to look after others better.
Investing in coaching is one of the most effective, and sustainable, ways to bring about change in yourself, and your family.
Coaching can help you manage change and reduce stress by tackling workload and work-life balance.
What might you bring to coaching?
Since you set the agenda, and we are all unique, coaching conversations are never the same. Even when two people bring the same topic to a coaching conversation, the challenges and actions will be different.
School Leaders
Some common questions school leaders bring to coaching include:
- How can I improve and maintain balance in my life?
- What strategies can I develop for managing my inner critic?
- How closely aligned is my professional life to my values?
- How clear am I on my purpose and goals as a leader?
- What strengths do I bring to my role?
- How can I manage difficult conversations and feedback?
- How do I best lead/manage change?
Parents
Some common questions parents bring to coaching include:
- How can I be the parent I want to be?
- How can I improve my parent effectiveness?
- How can I create warmer, more satisfying family relationships?
- How can I avoid parent burnout?
- How can I increase my child’s/children’s happiness and self-confidence?
- How can I solve individual and family problems without conflict?
- How can I improve our family communication skills?
Interested? Questions? Get in touch …
What people say …
After every session with Ali, I’m more clear about the steps I need to take and what’s critical. She asks the right questions, so I can plan what needs to be done but also notice why things were not done in the first place. With such clarity and insight, I’ve become more organised and confident.
You are very good at not saying much, but getting me from the point where I think I can't see an answer to finding something and that is really useful.
Thank you so much for this morning - it has helped me think more clearly about the future, which was really useful. You asked some really good and challenging questions that made me re-assess.
You've kept my thinking really focused. And the last session triggered me into action and that's really helpful.