Communication Skills Coaching
Are you troubled by difficult work relationships that get in the way of delivering? Could you benefit from personalised coaching to communicate MUCH more effectively with difficult people?
Less Pear Shaped Conversations
This coaching service is directed specifically on the critical area of communication skills.
You might be very capable technically but you may be frustrated that your message is not getting through, or too frequently gets a defensive response. You may have been given feedback that you require assistance in this important area or you may have some especially difficult people with whom you must work. Whatever the case, your personal Communication Skills Coaching will provide insight on why too many of your important conversations go pear-shaped and what you can do about it.
Better Conversations, Better Work
In these sessions, our target areas will include skills to handle emotional outbursts from others, skills to assert with those whose behaviour is problematic for you, and skills to resolve conflict. Bottom line is that your Communication Skills Coaching will deliver greater capacity to effectively interact with even the most difficult person and therefore enjoy a far more effective and less stressful work experience.
Facilitation Skills & Conference Design Coaching
Getting sweaty about an upcoming meeting?
We understand.
We can help.
Personalised Support
Are you about to facilitate an important meeting? Or perhaps you need to design the structure for a large conference? Do you want design assistance or facilitation skills training in a personalised or private setting?
In either case, we provide coaching to enable you to better meet the challenge of ensuring your conference is a success, or facilitating an effective meeting. Let’s face it: meetings and conferences are a place where your leadership is highly visible to your organisation. So getting it right really counts.
Getting Your Act Together
Our coaching in these important areas will take the guess work out of your meetings and conferences and ensure your strong performance.
Your coaching may include the design of a particular meeting you may need to facilitate; developing the structure for a large conference; practicing the specific steps required to guide your meeting or building your capacity to stay present and resourceful throughout the gathering. It will include whatever it requires to ensure you face your next meeting or conference with confidence and greater competence.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching is reserved for those who want movement in their professional lives in the areas they just can’t seem to get traction! This coaching is about unearthing the restraining patterns of thought that have kept your most important improvement goals at bay. At the essence of leadership is the ability to gain a clearer view of oneself and ones sabotaging patterns of thought and action, and dramatically lessen their hold. If you have areas of change that are genuinely important to you, and would increase your power at work, but your needed improvement has been illusive to date, then please consider Leadership coaching.
As part of your Leadership Coaching, we will talk to you about gaining feedback from your colleagues. This may be through The Leadership Circle 360 tool, or a simpler, less comprehensive option we also use. Either way, we will work with you to ensure your sessions are grounded in sensible feedback.
Honest, consultative and productive.
Fun and productive!
Thanks Paul so much for your warm facilitation skills which you use with such smooth and compassionate ease. You bring a wonderful atmosphere to our board meetings, and I really appreciate what you do and how you do it!
The program supported me by showing me how to handle reactiveness, and widen the angle on how I see things. The 360 review and the one-on-one coaching which supported it was the most useful part for me. I have attended other courses, but this was one of the best.
Very effective way of generating ideas. I am looking forward to undertaking this process in the regional office.
Paul is a very passionate and entertaining facilitator!
It was fantastic … a very collaborative and fruitful approach to strategic planning. I have appreciated being part of this process, and particularly seeing the culmination of many different colleagues’ perspectives being brought into a more concise and effective set of objectives. Paul’s overall approach to collaboration and planning would be beneficial to many colleagues at all different stages of their career.
The whole program was brilliant and I enjoyed every bit of it! I am already taking on board doing different styles of meetings depending on their purpose and I am more motivated to do this. I am 100% sure I will use the models and am thinking I will use the ‘analysis kite’. This program is different as you can use the content straight away due to its relevance to what we’re doing.
For me, the course created a whole new way of relating to people – whether it be in a meeting or on a one-to-one basis. The whole course was packed with good information and was good fun.
Paul facilitated the group very well. Paul managed and navigated us through it in a way so that everyone was heard and it was a very safe environment … The role playing was exceptionally helpful as it helped me understand the situation from both people’s perspective.
Definitely a helpful program in providing practical tools for a different way of managing a team.
Insightful, confronting at times, but very valuable time with our leadership team, skilfully facilitated and guided by Paul. The immediate result is a stronger connection between us – being vulnerable in front of each other breaks some barriers.
It was brilliantly presented for both work and life. I was able to improve the outlook of how I was perceived by others by making subtle changes that realistically have a major impact. The facilitators were very passionate and thought provoking.
The program was interesting and very positive. The group was surprised by the outcome. The approach that Paul used for the group to engage in the task and communicate was not confronting, very inviting and inclusive, for all group members to participate. The actions that were decided are being implemented now.
The program was a great opportunity to have really in-depth yet flexible discussions and explore. Anne Maree was a wonderful facilitator.
Definitely one of the best courses I have attended! Thanks!
Professionalism, frankness, openness. Comfort and safety in the environment. Calmness. Impacting, uncomfortable, and effective. Any change in any system results in discomfort. Paul’s session provided the tools and awareness to sit in the discomfort and know that it’s okay. To stop the “rescuer” mentality so often present in leaders of “fixing all the problems”. Paul’s facilitated session provided me with the tools and awareness to take a different perspective on challenges within the team and organisation.
To find myself on the leadership wheel was great. This gave me insight into how I can improve as a leader, it also helped me with strategies for one of my team … I gained confidence in how to approach my leadership in a new way which helped to reenergise me … I think all leaders could benefit from Paul’s approach and teaching.
It was great to have a whole day with Paul – away from the office and all of the distractions. I learnt a lot about myself, and was amazed about how much Paul could understand me so quickly based on our discussions. I have incorporated some of the learnings immediately into my thinking and day to day work.
Emotional and insightful.
[The program provided] a lot of good insights on how the team saw the management and their views on opportunities to improve. … We have understood a lot more of the team’s feedback as a result.
Paul’s coaching has been timely and has allowed me to stop and reflect on how things are going with myself and my team. I’ve learnt about how to structure meetings, and how to have “difficult conversations”. It’s been great to freely chat about what is happening with the team – without any conflict or worries about confidentiality. I would definitely recommend this coaching.
We were fortunate to have Paul for two sessions and the results have been extremely powerful in helping achieve our goal as a High Performing Team. We have a large, dynamic, and growing team and with Paul’s expert facilitation we undertook Team Management Profiling to better understand each of our work preferences. This not only built relationships within the team quickly but helped provide a deeper appreciation of how we individually approached work, and importantly how we can best work together as a high performing team. To say the team has gelled since is an understatement.
We have also adopted the discipline of The Decision Making Kite Model and have found this to be a powerful tool leading to better meetings. My favourite initiative, however, is how we radicalised our senior leadership meetings and took them from a rolling set of minutes to an engaged and productive session where we collectively solve the real issues facing the team. Every time we have these meetings since we made the change as suggested by Paul I have at least one person come to me and say how good these meetings are!
I liked the tools provided to assist with opening a meeting. They are professional tools which start the meeting on a positive note, where the staff are likely to get connected and have input into the agenda.
