Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is being increasingly seen as one of the most effective ways to enhance the skills and leadership behaviours of senior executives. QED Consulting’s Senior Executive Coaching Programme involves a series of one on one sessions. The coaching sessions focus on and work through a range of identified issues, helping individuals to overcome specific barriers in their current role, develop new skills and to build confidence.

A typical coaching programme consists of 6, two hourly sessions at regular intervals (approx. every 2 – 3 weeks), in the office or off-site. To help develop and enhance the performance of key personnel our programmes are tailored to the needs of the individual and the organisation. The focus is not on learning, although learning invariably takes place, but on "doing". It is about changing behaviours and attitudes to achieve desired results. This is a powerful action centred approach to coaching, with the client required to make commitments at each session, to do something that will stretch them before the next one. Our approach at QED Consulting is to ensure each coaching client has a sponsor, who helps us to establish the business objectives that are to be focused on throughout the programme. As coaches we also work with the client to establish their own personal development needs and objectives. We then work together with the client to ultimately align the two sets of objectives and ensure that they are achieved.

Our experienced business coaches, many of whom are also Occupational Psychologists, establish a mind-set of expectancy and confidence and fulfil the role of adviser and motivator and (as reported by clients!) conscience. A failure to deliver an expected result is an opportunity to try again, not to give up!

Typical clients might include:

• Very successful executives who want to accelerate their development

• Young executives who need to secure gaps in their knowledge/experience

• Valued, experienced members of the team who could be even more valued

• Experienced executives who want to be re-energised and enthused

Client Feedback:

“The personalized executive coaching I undertook with Kathy has, quite literally, put my once faltering career back on track. The identification and acknowledgement of your strengths and weaknesses, the opportunity for in-depth discussions and the practical advice and guidance provided by a highly skilled, experienced professional have been invaluable in refocusing my efforts. Although it is most definitely a two-way process, it is by far the most rewarding “training” I have undertaken in a 17 year career.”

"I have been hugely impressed by the coaching programme that I have recently completed. There is no doubt in my mind that it has proven to be excellent value for money - both from a personal and a business perspective. I have often found myself leaving a session amazed at what I have opened up about."

"There is no doubt that the coaching programme that QED has provided to me has helped me to cope with a time of change and built me into a far more effective leader at the end. Based on my experience, I would have no hesitation in utilising the services of QED again."

Sponsor Feedback:

‘The X of today is a different person from the X of 6 months ago and it’s all the right stuff! He is confident and assertive and now recognises that he is doing things well. He has the courage to assert himself as overall leader of the company, tackles the senior team head on when appropriate and the team have a clear understanding of his role and the contribution he makes.’