Coaching for you
Become a trusted leader, motivate your teams and make your work more meaningful.
You are an executive or senior manager:Â
- You are a experienced and want to become a trusted leader.
- You’ve had some leadership training, so you know what you are doing. Yet you know there is still more to learn, and that one thing you really want to get under your belt.
- But there isn’t enough time in the day to get results the way you used to. You don’t want to sacrifice your private life for the additional work challenges on your plate.
- You want to create a high performance team with your people.
- Maybe it’s been suggested that executive coaching could help you elevate to the next level.
- You know something needs to change and you’re ready to do the work.
Let’s get these results for you:Â
- Create epic results with your team, in challenging times, while still staying calm inside.
- Make that transition from being the expert at getting results yourself to being the enabler that drives results through their people.
- Manage and be taken seriously by ALL stakeholders (even that difficult one).
- Influence effectively to bring people on board with your ideas
- Be recognised as ready for the next level up.
A good leader communicates the direction of travel
My biggest frustration before engaging Amber was working out my priorities and how to best plan my future: set the direction of travel.
In just 3 months of working with you I became clearer on how I wanted to design key strategy for my company. Plus I got essential clarity to navigate the big stuff through the distractions of the day to day.
How did it feel when I got these results? Refreshing and uplifting.
I really enjoyed working with you Amber and hope to do so again.
Experiencing the results felt absolutely amazing
You have accompanied me through my biggest transformational years – so everything has become possible. You supported me and helped me manage a career jump / stretch that I did not feel possible.
When people work with you they get your active listening skills, your ability to get to the essence of what you hear, and yet adding a challenge or eye opening statement while summing it up. Your understanding of business and leadership, and your sharp ability to read people make any session with you full of insights, and brings clarity as to what is to be done.
elt absolutely amazing.
Full clarity coming out of our sessions on what I needed to do – super actionable insights and also at times peace of mind.
Schedule your leadership strategy session
 If you are new to managing a team:
- Now you're responsible for developing other people. How do you develop others?
- You don't want to become a micromanager (but you've got all the great ideas! I mean, you got promoted because you were excellent at your job).
- People expect you to create strategies and vision for your team. You're great at implementing them, but how do you create vision and mission?
- You want to shift from being a “do-er” to “making sure things get things get done".
Let's get these results for you:Â
- Take your team to the next level in high performance.
- Speak with authority and ease, no matter who's listening.
- Get as comfortable with the people stuff as you are with the technical and content stuff.
- Define a leadership style that feels natural, and get's you taken seriously.
- A clear plan and method for developing your people, that doesn't fill up all your time with 1:1 meetings.
Let me help you become a trusted leader
 If you have a key role within a team, or are a subject matter expert:
Even if you don't have direct reports, you still need leadership skills: to be more effective in your role now, and to get those promotion opportunities later.
- You want to be listened to in meetings and in projects, because you have a lot to contribute.
- You are part of a team and you want to get people on board with your ideas (influencing and negotiation skills).
- To get promoted you need to show your leadership skills. But how do you show up as a leader when you're not in charge?
- You don’t want to sit in another meeting that is going nowhere - you want to be able to shape the events around you, even when you aren’t in charge.
- What is your style? What the heck does it mean to be a leader anyway?
- You want to engage people into working together, even when they don't report to you.
- You want to get notices and considered for promotions, without being one of those "look at me" annoying people.
Let's get you these results:Â
I know my career trajectory would have been radically different if I had access to leadership coaching early in my career. I wouldn't have stalled for 3 years and been told "I can't get you a promotion because you have a visibility problem".
You have access to coaching, now, if you want it. Let's give you a better career path.
- Speak with authority and ease, no matter who's listening.
- Show your potential, and create career opportunities that you're excited about.
- Get buy-in for your ideas because persuasion and influence feels natural.
- Develop a leadership style that feels authentic and easy.
- People seek your opinion because they value your expertise.
- Have a way of dealing with those irritating colleagues who make meetings insufferable.
- Reclaim your evenings and weekends, while still delivering results. Seems impossible right? Once we crack the code to this for you, you'll thank yourself for hiring me as your coach.
Let's be honest, Leadership is a journey
From team leader up to the c suite, there is a balance in your work between executing tasks, and getting things done by others. As you progress up the chain of leadership, you need to adjust the balance. Plus you need to develop your leadership style.
You have the functional technical skills and expertise (that's why you got promoted, right?). Now you need to develop the leadership skills.Â
I learned the hard way.
When I was a new manager, (blimey, so long ago now) I was eager to help. But I thought I had all the answers. And that my job was to tell people those answers. I knew I was supposed to “involve” people. Note the quotation marks, they say so much.
So my efforts to engage and collaborate ended up being more micro-managing.Â
I had a nightmare team member - but it turns out that I was the asshole, not him. Â
I didn’t even know that I needed to learn leadership skills. I was promoted because I was excellent at my job.Â
I didn’t know how to lead.Â
It’s good that help is available, or we’d have tons of organisations and teams at the mercy of people who are wonderful and technically brilliant, but who are terrible leaders.
Leadership is a learnable skill. And you are already doing some things really well.Â
Let's get you to the next level.
Lets make this easier for you.
Let me help you become a trusted leader, who knows how to motivate their team, while making your work more meaningful.
Why do I have a picture of Obama here?Â
Firstly, because I took that! I was that close to the man. And he's looking right at me, deep into my eyes. That smile is just for me (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).
And it's part of an important lesson in leadership: be clear about what you want, and go for it.
About a year before that photo, I saw an opportunity to go hear him speak. And I didn't take it. I regretted it big time. So when I saw he was coming to Amsterdam, I dropped a big wad of cash to attend the event. It. was. awesome.
Moral of the story (leadership lessons):
1. It would have cost a lot less if I had taken the first opportunity - and I spent too much time wishing I hadn't denied myself.
Lesson: Denying yourself, or holding back, sucks.
2. This event was amazing and he wasn't even the best speaker on the day! Read this post to see what I mean.
Lesson: other opportunities will come. Just make sure to seize them.
3. This opportunity to hear Obama speak didn't just fall in my lap. I had taken hundreds of decisions over those intervening years to discover what I wanted, to go looking for it, then grab it when I found it.
Lesson: create your own opportunities, then grab them fast.