Coaching
Clarify your goals, achieve your developments objectives, gain new insights, illuminate blind-spots and improve your self-awareness and leadership effectiveness.
Coaching can unlock your potential; benefiting you, your team and your organisation. It can serve as a bridge from where you are to the fulfilment of your aspirations, clarifying your path to achieving your objectives.
All this and more can be accomplished through coaching with Animo.
How will coaching work?
Programmes are tailored to you as an individual. After an introductory meeting and agreeing the basis on which we can work together we will complete a Coaching Agreement and establish your goals, objectives and the way in which we will work to achieve them.
Coaching is primarily a dialogue-based process during which your coach supports and facilitates your self-awareness, learning, behaviour change and goal accomplishment. With your permission and active participation, the process may also include some or all of the following:
- Assessments, performance management feedback
- Stakeholder interviews, feedback, involvement
- Observation, shadowing
- Progress reports, self-assessment
- Coaching and Walking (written before COVID-19, but actually, no reason why the walking can’t be done separately whilst on the phone, which is exactly how I’ve previously worked with some of my clients)
- Getting outside and going for a good walk can be extremely beneficial. In many respects, it doesn’t matter where you walk, whether it’s in a forest, across some rolling hills, along a riverbank or through some city streets. The benefit and pleasure are in being outside, getting some exercise and experiencing more of life going on around you. From a coaching perspective, walking with someone else does at least two things in a big way:
- You get to enjoy all the pleasures of the walk shared with someone else and walking side by side powerfully illustrates the partnership in our coaching relationship.
- Walking can take you away from the close proximity of your current situation for a while, which helps to remove some of the distractions and barriers that prevent good thinking and change.
- Getting outside and going for a good walk can be extremely beneficial. In many respects, it doesn’t matter where you walk, whether it’s in a forest, across some rolling hills, along a riverbank or through some city streets. The benefit and pleasure are in being outside, getting some exercise and experiencing more of life going on around you. From a coaching perspective, walking with someone else does at least two things in a big way:
We are guided by a set of coaching principles that we firmly believe will help you achieve better results for you and your organisation:
- You are resourceful, and don’t need ‘fixing’
- My role is to develop your resourcefulness through questioning, challenge and support
- I have unconditional positive regard for you
- Coaching is a partnership of equals
- The only agenda I have is yours
- I am always on your side, and interested in the whole you
- Coaching is about change and action
What our Clients say
Mark is a gifted coach, who takes a unique, even understated approach to build rapport, put his client at ease and quickly move into focused discussions which have always led to practical steps. Through working with Mark, I have built a clearer understanding of priorities and opportunities to develop myself and others around me.
Doug, Senior Commercial / Procurement Leader, Public Sector Organisation
Mark has been my coach for 6 months. He is: engaging, encouraging, intelligent, empathetic and most importantly, completely down to earth. Mark is an excellent listener, an effective communicator and uses alternative approaches to help facilitate new ideas! Mark is a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend him as a business coach. I have no doubt his work would be supportive of anyone's professional development.
Steve, Head of Commercial
I worked with Mark over a six-month period of significant change in my working life and found him to be a source of sincere and effective support. He showed great empathy and understanding throughout this transition, sharing with me a number of techniques and strategies which I have used to navigate my way through this period. Mark used his considerable expertise and insight to identify different options and opportunities to support me. By taking a holistic, non-judgemental view of my circumstances, Mark brought into the open elements that I had not fully understood or appreciated. I have no hesitation in recommending Mark.
Rorie Fulton, Company Director
Mark quickly established a good working relationship with me and I felt able to be open and honest and trust him in a short space of time. He listens really well and chooses his questions, and timing of them, at the most appropriate parts of a conversation. Mark has helped me better articulate my skills and strengths and reflect these within my CV. He also helped me identify what future role I could play within my current organisation, along with helping decide whether my future laid elsewhere. I highly recommend him and look forward to my coaching sessions with him.
Paul, Product Group Lead
Mark has a strong appreciation of the different approaches to coaching that can be applied and uses them intelligently, ensuring that each session is productive. His style is challenging but calm, results focused without being critical, and patient but conscious of the need to keep things moving. Mark has a solid and deep business & finance background himself, which is very helpful in putting context to our discussions - he understands the managerial and commercial environment and the challenges it can bring. I have gained a great deal from our sessions and recommend him very highly indeed.
Senior Commercial Lead, Government Department