Carol helps coaches build credible, successful practices within the corporate world.
Carol helps coaches understand what it takes to build a coaching practice that works successfully with organisations, senior leaders and executive clients.
Her work focuses on the realities of operating in a corporate environment, where the person being coached may not be the person commissioning or paying for the work. Coaches need to understand organisational priorities, multiple stakeholders, procurement processes and professional expectations while still protecting the integrity and confidentiality of the coaching relationship. Carol helps coaches become confident operating in that more complex landscape.
“My aim is straightforward: to help coaches understand the corporate world well enough to work confidently within it while remaining excellent coaches.”
Understanding how coaching is commissioned, positioned and delivered within organisations.
Working effectively with senior leaders and understanding the expectations that can accompany executive-level work.
Understanding the priorities of HR, L&D, talent, leadership and other people responsible for commissioning coaching.
Identifying realistic routes into organisations and building the credibility and relationships needed to create opportunities.
Working effectively when the coach, coachee, sponsor and organisation may each have different interests and expectations.
Establishing clear agreements around purpose, responsibilities, confidentiality, reporting and boundaries.
Presenting yourself and your work in ways that make sense to organisational decision-makers without pretending to be something you are not.
Understanding how culture, hierarchy, politics, performance expectations and wider business priorities can shape a coaching engagement.
Communicating the purpose and contribution of coaching in terms that organisations can understand and evaluate.
Developing the relationships, reputation and experience that can lead to sustained organisational coaching work.
