It’s common sense that businesses thrive when everyone involved operates at their best. We specialise in training, coaching and counselling - dedicated to improving the performance of organisations, leaders and staff.

Management and leadership skills are fundamentally different. Managers focus on efficiency and performance. Leadership has developed into a strategic niche, requiring vision and the ability to attract followers. Leaders decide where the organisation is going; managers make sure they get there.

With a wealth of experience in both the private and corporate world, we make the complex simple.

Our founding partners possess a rigorous background of research and study - constantly evolving with latest thinking. With extensive experience of different coaching techniques and therapies and the ability to identify personality types and relate to issues, the partners recognise and utilise the most effective approach for the individual. Combined with a down-to-earth style, this delivers very real, fairly immediate results.

Coleby Consulting helps clients:

• Develop and enhance specific skills
• Implement actions after training
• Meet objectives after a performance review
• Support in a new role
• Build confidence
• Heighten self-awareness
• Develop and improve relating skills
• Remove barriers to excellent performance
• Regain and maintain high motivation
• Re-energise teams
• Resolve conflicts
• Build personal impact
• Increase confidence in handling change
• Develop world-class customer relationships
• Become professional writers
• Create greater trust and honesty at all levels within the organisation

Coaching for key leaders and teams

In corporate coaching the emphasis is on strategic actions that deliver rapid and significant behavioural change in such issues as leadership, confidence, time management and productivity.

Executive coaching is a one-on-one service for the top-level leaders in an organisation. This follows the principle that positive changes can be leveraged to filter down and enhance an entire organisation.

We help executives, directors, managers, supervisors, other key leaders and teams who want to achieve growth, success and balance in their professional lives.

Executive consulting and leadership development

Leading an organisation can be a lonely business. Senior executives often feel isolated - surrounded by superiors, competitors and subordinates for whom they are responsible. What little feedback they get most often comes from ‘interested parties’, meaning it lacks objectivity or credibility. This is where executive consulting can make all the difference.

Benefits include:

• An honest and objective ally with no divided loyalties
• A sounding-board for exploring problems and concerns, development needs, leadership style, new strategies and visions
• Enhanced ability to deal with stress and change
• Increased balance and personal motivation
• Help in resolving conflict

Mentoring

Mentoring is probably the most effective and powerful developmental intervention for senior staff. It provides executives with an objective - to become a challenging yet supportive individual whose central aim is to help staff fulfil their potential and succeed. Coaching and mentoring are similar processes, except that in coaching there is usually a tight focus on a particular outcome. Mentoring is a looser, ongoing strategy designed to help executives continually assess and improve their own performance.

Performance coaching

Performance coaching is results focused. Achievement can be taken to another level by fine-tuning existing skills and strengths, and developing clear goals - each with its own action plan. At Coleby Consulting, we can help overcome barriers, closing the gap between actual and desired performance.

Transformational coaching

Some clients recognise a need for change - a fundamental shift in perspective, values, potential and future direction. This type of coaching develops communication skills, providing an insight into language, thoughts and behaviour patterns.

Manager as coach

This coaching process will form the foundations enabling managers to coach their own team.

Powerful workshops and practical seminars

Customised to fit the needs and culture of your company, all workshops can be adapted to full day, half day or luncheon formats.

View a list of the most popular workshops and seminars HERE

A combination of coaching and training provides the best results

• Initial coaching overcomes any barriers to learning.
• Workshops deliver a powerful experience of learning in a group, while being cost-effective for the organisation.
• Follow-up coaching, after training, enhances the retention rate of lessons learned by up to 70 per cent - providing maximum returns on your development budget.

* Research from IBM, and reproduced by the Post Office