Individual Executive Coaching
Sue Morrison
I have been a coach since 2008, building on the open questioning and active listening approach developed over many years as a GP with a background in psychotherapy and education. My way of working distils out of all these previous professional approaches and is constantly developing: I have never felt more suited to a role than I do now.
Some feedback from clients:
‘I feel I am much happier at work and better able to concentrate and focus which means that I am more attentive with patients and am able to give more in consultations’
‘Sue is an absolutely brilliant mentor. She is totally holistic in her approach addressing both personal and work issues and recognizing that they are closely intertwined. She was totally tuned into what I was thinking and feeling, picking up on small cues. This made me feel like she had a really deep understanding of where I was coming from and the issues I was having. She wasn’t afraid of probing into areas that were uncomfortable but equally didn’t cross any boundaries.’
Naomi Craft
Over the many years I have worked in the NHS, I’ve noticed the importance of sound leadership and good team working as the foundations for a functional, safe, efficient and supportive working culture. Sadly many teams have shaky foundations, and many of the people I have coached in the past ten years have struggled to retain their own sense of balance in a stressful, high pressure environment where support and positivity seem to be in short supply.
The people I’ve come into contact with have come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and at all levels of their professional career and in clinical and non clinical roles. Some have had significant personal concerns, which are impacting on their professional world, and vice versa. All of them have been working towards making changes.
As a coach, it’s been extremely personally rewarding to enable colleagues to make changes in their personal and professional roles that are long-lasting, significant and empowering, and which have a knock on effect in the wider professional and personal domains.
Team /Group Executive Coaching
Team coaching is a way of strengthening working relationships and managing conflicts and obstacles.
The constant changes and pressures in organisations can highlight and sometimes exaggerate pre-existing tensions in teams. More effective, efficient and enjoyable working life can be achieved by understanding how team members relate to each other, looking at ways of improving how they communicate and exploring their expectations of each other.
Team coaching helps the team move towards its goals by the creation of a safe and structured space. This can enable a potentially difficult conversation that can shift attitudes, perceptions and positions and allow conflicts and obstacles to be worked through. A secondary gain is that participants will be able to use more of a coaching approach in future unfacilitated conversations with each other, building on increased knowledge of underlying professional attitudes and behaviours.
Examples of issues that have been addressed in previous team coaching workshops are maximising role effectiveness, agreeing and developing an organizational development plan, exploration and possible resolution of difficult and obstructive relationships between colleagues
A preparatory, confidential individual coaching session with each participants allows time for individual reflection about preferred professional behaviours and the collective setting of short and long term goals/ outcomes for the team, prior to the team coaching.
Some feedback from previous participants:
‘…. that there is genuine warmth and a willingness to make things good again within the partnership.’(GP partner)
‘ ….planning to make some fairly major changes to the way our meetings are run, and some smaller changes to the way we communicate with each other.’ (Practice manager)
‘ ….session was useful (also) in enabling longstanding concerns to be aired’ (GP partner)
Sue Morrison
I have been a coach since 2008, building on the open questioning and active listening approach developed over many years as a GP with a background in psychotherapy and education. My way of working distils out of all these previous professional approaches and is constantly developing: I have never felt more suited to a role than I do now.
Some feedback from clients:
‘I feel I am much happier at work and better able to concentrate and focus which means that I am more attentive with patients and am able to give more in consultations’
‘Sue is an absolutely brilliant mentor. She is totally holistic in her approach addressing both personal and work issues and recognizing that they are closely intertwined. She was totally tuned into what I was thinking and feeling, picking up on small cues. This made me feel like she had a really deep understanding of where I was coming from and the issues I was having. She wasn’t afraid of probing into areas that were uncomfortable but equally didn’t cross any boundaries.’
Naomi Craft
Over the many years I have worked in the NHS, I’ve noticed the importance of sound leadership and good team working as the foundations for a functional, safe, efficient and supportive working culture. Sadly many teams have shaky foundations, and many of the people I have coached in the past ten years have struggled to retain their own sense of balance in a stressful, high pressure environment where support and positivity seem to be in short supply.
The people I’ve come into contact with have come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and at all levels of their professional career and in clinical and non clinical roles. Some have had significant personal concerns, which are impacting on their professional world, and vice versa. All of them have been working towards making changes.
As a coach, it’s been extremely personally rewarding to enable colleagues to make changes in their personal and professional roles that are long-lasting, significant and empowering, and which have a knock on effect in the wider professional and personal domains.
Team /Group Executive Coaching
Team coaching is a way of strengthening working relationships and managing conflicts and obstacles.
The constant changes and pressures in organisations can highlight and sometimes exaggerate pre-existing tensions in teams. More effective, efficient and enjoyable working life can be achieved by understanding how team members relate to each other, looking at ways of improving how they communicate and exploring their expectations of each other.
Team coaching helps the team move towards its goals by the creation of a safe and structured space. This can enable a potentially difficult conversation that can shift attitudes, perceptions and positions and allow conflicts and obstacles to be worked through. A secondary gain is that participants will be able to use more of a coaching approach in future unfacilitated conversations with each other, building on increased knowledge of underlying professional attitudes and behaviours.
Examples of issues that have been addressed in previous team coaching workshops are maximising role effectiveness, agreeing and developing an organizational development plan, exploration and possible resolution of difficult and obstructive relationships between colleagues
A preparatory, confidential individual coaching session with each participants allows time for individual reflection about preferred professional behaviours and the collective setting of short and long term goals/ outcomes for the team, prior to the team coaching.
Some feedback from previous participants:
‘…. that there is genuine warmth and a willingness to make things good again within the partnership.’(GP partner)
‘ ….planning to make some fairly major changes to the way our meetings are run, and some smaller changes to the way we communicate with each other.’ (Practice manager)
‘ ….session was useful (also) in enabling longstanding concerns to be aired’ (GP partner)