Coaching & Mentoring

Put simply, coaching is the art of helping others to achieve their goals through powerful questioning, great listening and helping another person to become resourceful to make the changes they want to make.

At Azure, we believe that coaching is one of the most powerful tools that can be utilised in the workplace. Coaching targets the improvement of performance at work by focusing on specific goals and making the most of the strengths that individuals possess, helping them to be confident, motivated and happy both at work and in life.  Over the years, we have worked with many organisations coaching their leaders to be more successful and to really impact their organisation’s performance. We have also developed many people to qualify as coaches and helped numerous individual leaders to develop a coaching style that can be practically used on a day to day basis.

Whilst most people these days have quite a good understanding of what executive coaching is, not everyone will be aware of the vast array of situations where it can be beneficial. Many of our clients don’t actually appreciate the aspects of their lives that coaching could help to improve until they experience it for themselves.  We have highlighted some of those areas by sharing with you some real scenarios from our client work, clearly protecting the identity of those involved.

Click here to read more: Case Study 1 – Feeling like a juggler!

Click here to read more: Case study 2 – Effective influencing can be hard but is SO important..

You can also see more about coaching and some of the different coaching related work we have been involved in here: Click here to see the Coaching Co-ordinator from Kirklees Council talk about how we have helped the council to develop a culture of coaching.

What our clients have said about Azure Executive Coaching…

“I thoroughly enjoyed the coaching sessions: they have proved extremely beneficial to my progress and growth.  My Azure coach was amazing!  She made me feel like I could speak openly and honestly, and made me realise that I have more confidence than I think I do, but also that I should believe in myself, in doing this I am no a stronger more confident person who can deal with any situation that I find myself in.”

“The way my session were structured allowed for learning, practice and reflection.  The 1:1 sessions then further developed learnings by digging deeper into personal development, blockers, struggles, issues and learning how to work past these.  Following each 1:1 session with my Azure coach I took away valuable ideas which I then out into practice.  The feedback that I received (positive and constructive) was very helpful.  Through reflection exercises the caoching helped broaded my perspective and my ability to apprach and handle difficult conversations.”

Mentoring, like coaching, helps individuals improve performance but it involves more guidance and sharing of knowledge and experience, often over a long time period and most typically from an individual who is more experienced in the area of learning required.

Mentoring is greatly underutilised in many workplaces.  The mentor : mentee relationship has the potential to develop both parties and when it works well, the trust built up can provide support and learning that lasts for many years. Some organisations that promote mentoring expect mentors to undertake the role with little or no training and then wonder why the process doesn’t work as effectively as they expected. Great mentors need to be skilled in the same way that great coaches do and we have helped many to develop these complementary, but differing skills over out time in business.

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