Coaching for Clarity

Coaching that builds individual and team resilience, focus and success.

 

Our Coaching for Clarity Programme offers business leaders the essential space to uncover what to prioritise, identify what success looks like, create the impact they want to have, and magnify those results. 

So what makes our coaching different from the competition?

You may feel overwhelmed searching for the right coach.  There are so many out there with different focuses and different promises – some will boost your confidence, others will enhance your presence or build your capacity to influence.  And that could be right for you if you know exactly what you want to focus on.  Our experience is that often leaders know what doesn’t feel right or isn’t working well but they don’t know what specifically they need to do to change it.  And often, even if you suspect what support you might need, through our coaching you’ll uncover things to work on that you weren’t even conscious of.

There are three key areas that make us different:

  • Deep transformational work – our coaches ask powerful and perceptive questions that get to the heart of your issues and continue to work at that level so you achieve sustainable change.

  • Equal emphasis on personal and professional – we understand that people aren’t binary and the stories they share are usually a microcosm of what plays out in all aspects of their life.  Our coaches see you as a whole person and so working together, you’ll see positive outcomes both personally and professionally.

  • Building your self-awareness – through deep listening of who you are and how you see the world, our coaches ask insightful questions to help you better understand yourself – your belief system, your values, your triggers and impact.

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Nadia has an incredible ability to listen and pull out astute observations and reflections, providing challenge at just the right points.

I started the coaching journey with Nadia thinking that four sessions would never be enough. By our last session, I had made real changes that were making a difference to me (both personally and in work) and to my team and had been successful in being appointed to a new more senior role. The coaching has had a huge role to play in this success and I can’t recommend Nadia highly enough.
— KIRSTEEN ROE, SERVICE DIRECTOR, STOCKPORT COUNCIL

We understand that being a leader in this constantly changing and uncertain world is incredibly challenging and can be lonely. 

 
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Having the weight of responsibility for the business strategy, operations, bottom line and growth can lead to restless nights and that’s without considering the difficult decisions that often have to be made around people management.

Key to becoming an inclusive leader is your self-awareness – what are your ‘truths’ about the world and how aware are you of other people’s ‘truths’? How does your view shape your decisions, actions and therefore your outcomes? 

Want different outcomes? Our team of expert coaches are trained to get to the deeper levels of who you are, your belief systems and values. We are here to support you achieve your goals but, even better, your journey will be powerful, deep-rooted and sustainable.

With Coaching for Clarity You’re Going To:

  • Make Clearer and More Effective Decisions

  • Be More Resilient in Challenging Times

  • Be More Successful Through Clearer Goals

  • Achieve more Successful Relationships


Coaching for Clarity

What We Offer: The Breakdown

Programme 1 – Leadership Coaching for Clarity

Our 6-session coaching programme is for you if you:

  • Want to make a step change in your leadership to help progress to the next level

  • Want to have greater impact across your stakeholders

  • Are uncertain about your direction of travel

  • Are feeling overwhelmed with your current situation

  • Are unsure where to invest time and energy

By working with your Avenir coach, you will:

  • Understand the impact you have on those around you and enhance it

  • Better be able to recognise and navigate your emotions

  • Feel less stressed and more resilient to deal with challenges that come your way

  • Achieve clarity on your future path and how to get there

  • Feel confident to make decisions through clarity of thought

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Why Avenir for Leadership Coaching?

All our coaches are either ICF accredited or equivalent with over 15 years+ experience coaching leaders and executives across industries and sectors.  We are expert listeners and powerful questioners, with a deep curiosity that allows us to get to the heart of issues to create incredible shifts for our clients.

We work with our coachees at three levels – linguistically (listening to the language they are using), emotionally (connecting to how they are feeling as they tell their story), and physically (observing how they are showing up in their body as they speak).  All three provide essential information for us as coaches to ask the question that will provoke the most thought and guide our coachees towards their chosen outcome.

We are committed to evaluating the impact of our coaching and the return on investment.  We include pre-and post- coaching questionnaires as part of the coaching process to measure satisfaction, learning and application as well as business impact.

The Leadership Coaching Process

1. Contact us

  • Once we understand your drivers for the coaching, we will send you coaching bios for 2 or 3 Avenir coaches

2. Chemistry calls

  • You select 2 coaches and have an initial 30 minute video call with each

  • You decide which coach you would like to work with

3. Month 1— start coaching

  • First 1.5 hour coaching session — either in-person or virtually

  • Optional: 30 minutes 3-way with line manager

  • Creating clarity of your goals and current context

  • Complete start of coaching questionnaire

4. Months 2 - 5 coaching

  • 4 x 1.5 hour coaching sessions, approx. once a month

5. Month 6 — final coaching

  • Final 1.5 hour coaching session

  • Optional: 30 minutes 3-way with line manager

  • Summary of journey and goals achieved

  • Complete end of coaching questionnaire

Programme 2 – Team Coaching for Clarity

Our team coaching programme offers leadership with vital insight into the dynamics of the team relationships, how the beliefs, personalities and behaviours of each team member combine to create the team outcomes.  Through this insight, we work in the moment with your team to build a shared vision, working arrangements and goals. 

There’s an old African proverb that says ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together’.  And yet, its not always easy to trust your team members as relationships aren’t always smooth.  Its not always safe to put yourself out there and take a risk without fear of being knocked down.  Its not always clear that all team members are as committed to the shared goal.  It may not be obvious what the shared goal is!

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Think of your best experience working in a team.  How did it feel? What were the relationships like? What did you achieve?  At Avenir, we believe every team has the potential to be high-performing but as with all things in life, it takes work and effort.  And rarely is it work that can be done from within the team.  Our team coach brings an expert outside lens, observing your team as a system in terms of how you interact, who tends to speak first, who is listened to, how decisions are made etc. Your team coach will become a trusted confidante, supporting an inclusive culture and ultimately, high performance.

Our 6-stage team coaching programme is for you if:

  • You are a newly formed team or have new members of the team

  • Relationships in the team are difficult with many disagreements

  • Some or all team members feel disengaged with the team’s goals

  • Team members have differing agendas, not all overt

  • It is vital to business outcomes that the team is more productive and effective

By working with your Avenir team coach, you will:

  • Better understand individual team members -motivations, beliefs and values

  • Enhance team connectivity, cohesion and a sense of belonging

  • Create a shared vision, core purpose, shared team values and build trust

  • Maximise your team members’ collective abilities and potential to enhance performance

  • Make coming to work much more fun, rewarding and enjoyable!

1. Contact us

We'll set up an initial meeting with the team leader and key stakeholders

2. Team Engagement

  • Your Avenir Team Coach will meet with the team, explain the process, and answer any questions.

  • Team members will receive psychometric tests to complete

3. Team Discovery

  • A deep-dive into the results of the psychometrics and an open discussion to explore

  • Optional team leader coaching

4. Team Launch

  • Identify team strengths and development areas

  • Unpack the team's processes

  • Optional team leader coaching

5. 3x Team Coaching

  • 2 hours each, held over a period of 3 months

  • Includes a live coaching session to observe the team in practice

  • Optional team leader coaching

6. Review

  • Review progress towards team goals

  • Observe changes in team process

  • Agree on-going goals

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Why Coaching?

There has been significant research proving the clear benefits coaching can have for individuals and the business. City & Guilds Group (2018) reports 76% of employees believe coaching is helpful when going through periods of organisational change. Coaching plays a critical part in boosting productivity as people move between roles or embrace portfolio careers, both growing trends in today’s workplace.  

A study published in the International Journal of Coaching in Organisations calculated the return of investment of executive coaching to be 289%, taking into account avoided costs of losing people, the application of learning, increase in performance and business impact.

Why Avenir for Team Coaching?

Our skilled coaches have a deep understanding of the psychology of teams.  We are trained observers of team dynamics, power relationships, motivation, values and processes.  All of these and more create the complexity of the team system, which we have spent years studying and working with.

At Avenir, we make a clear distinction between facilitator and coach.  Your team coach isn’t there to direct your team’s thinking, offer advice or define your team’s learning objectives. 

Your team coach’s role is to support your team in creating the structure and clarity it needs to achieve its collective goal. And we leave your team in a place where they will continue to learn and grow in a sustainable way for years to come.

Here's what you need to do next:

Step 1: Choose Your Programme Type

Choose which programme works best for your needs. If you’re not sure, that’s fine, we can discuss this with you. On the form just indicate ‘not sure, want to discuss.’

Step 2: Fill in the Form

Then simply take a minute to fill out the form below so we can learn more about you and see how we can help you maximise your organisation's potential and performance. Please make sure to give as much explanation as possible about your role and the current context.

Step 3: You’ll Receive an Email Scheduling a Call

We'll find a mutually convenient time for an initial 30 minute call in the next few days so we can learn more about the support you would like and you can learn more about how we work.

 

Ditch the overwhelm.

ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS FASTER WITH AN AVENIR COACH BY YOUR SIDE

Achieve your goals faster with a coach by your side.

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