Coaching for Organisations

I provide a specialist coaching service for employees of creative industries organisations:

• Professional creatives
• Managers of creative teams
• Other creative professionals – account managers, programmers, planners etc

My clients tell me they appreciate the fact that I understand both the creative process and the world of business, from my experience as a poet, coach for creatives and consultant for large and small organisations.

What Is Coaching?

Short version: a solution-focused conversation to help you clarify your goals and take action to achieve them. It can be short and focused, using one or two sessions to address a specific decision or situation, or as long as several months, depending on your goals.

My role as a coach isn’t to tell you what to do, but to facilitate your own creativity and decision-making, and to help you translate your aspirations into concrete actions — and results. A typical session lasts an hour, with me doing a lot of listening, asking questions and offering feedback, to help you think things through, plan for action and review your progress.

Whatever your situation, my coaching is always driven by one fundamental question:

What do you want to achieve as the result of our conversation?

Long version: download my e-book ‘Creative Management for Creative Teams’ – an introduction to coaching and the difference it makes to creative companies.

Typical Coaching Goals

For Creatives

• Raising creative performance
• Developing creative talent
• Working effectively under pressure
• Improving working relationships – with colleagues, managers and clients
• Dealing with creative blocks
• Dealing with ‘difficult’ people
• Balancing creative and career ambitions

For Managers

• Managing performance
• Developing people’s talents
• Inspiring and motivating people
• Facilitating the creative process
• Improving working relationships
• Delivering effective feedback — on work and behaviour
• Resolving conflict

Practicalities

Coaching sessions are ideally face-to-face, at least to begin with. However coaching by phone or via webcam can also be very effective, and allows for greater flexibility in scheduling. Sessions typically last 1-2 hours.

Most sessions are one-to-one – I also coach creative partnerships and small teams.

How Can Coaching Help You?

To discuss your needs in confidence please e-mail me or telephone on +44 (0)20 8691 2475.