Through coaching individuals are encouraged to move outside their comfort zones and agree to action plans which measure their success and ensure that you remain accountable. This also helps to ensure that the behavioural changes, new skills and/or motivation is applied in your working life.

Individual Coaching - How Is It Delivered?
The process generally starts with a face-to-face personal interview to assess the individuals current opportunities and challenges, identify and prioritise actions and establish specific outcomes. The coaching sessions that follow will usually be face-to-face but the inclusion of email and telephone based communications are also very common.The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the individual’s personal needs and preferences.

There are many different types of individual / leadership coaching which include:-

1. Performance coaching - aimed at enhancing an individual’s performance in their current role at work, to increase their effectiveness and productivity at work. Generally, performance coaching derives its theoretical underpinnings and models from business and sports psychology as well as general psychological theory.

2. Executive coaching: one to one performance coaching is increasingly being recognised as the way for organisations and individuals to improve performance. By improving the performance of the most influential people within the organisation, the theory goes that business results should improve. Executive coaching is often delivered by coaches operating from outside the organisation whose services are requested for an agreed duration or number of coaching sessions.

3 Skill Development Coaching - focuses on the core skills an employee needs to perform in their role. Skills coaching provides a flexible, adaptive, ‘just-in-time’ approach to skills development. Coaching programmes are tailored specifically to the individual and are generally focused on achieving a number of skill development objectives that are linked to the needs of the organisation.

4. Career Coaching - focus on the individual’s career concerns, with the coach eliciting and using feedback on the individual’s capabilities as part of a discussion of career options. The process should lead to increased clarity, personal change and forward action.

5. Personal Coaching - provides support to individuals wishing to make some form of significant changes happen within their lives. Coaches help individuals to explore what they want in life and how they might achieve their aspirations and fulfil their needs. Personal/life coaching generally takes the individual’s agenda as its start point.