I am told that very few people in my field have the commercial acumen, business experience, people management expertise, Coaching, NLP and Psychotherapy combination of skills that I have in my back pocket. I keep being told I must get comfortable talking about this and telling people how good I am! My challenge has been to find a way of feeding that into the website without me sounding arrogant.
In recognition of the need to adapt change interventions to suit the nature of the challenges presented by our clients, we have developed 6 specific product categories to cater for different individual needs. Take a look at the following menu of choice and identify the service which resonates with you and is most relevant to your current situation:
We are great complicators and I am skilled at making the complex simple so I’ll tell it like it is.
I am an expert in the motivation of people; in finding out what really makes them perform at the top level. I am expert at finding the expert in you! What if I tell you we are all doing the best we can with the resources available to us at any given time allowing for the fact that we don’t know what we don’t know! When we know better we do better.
I am skilled at bringing to your attention the things you don’t know you didn’t know and helping you to adapt your thinking to get better results.
I am really good at seeing things from different perspectives and angles and seeing different things in people. The problem for most people is that they worry too much about other peoples’ views rather than getting clear of their own; they worry about what other people will think.
Executive Coaching simply means I coach executives.
Business Coaching is about teaching capabilities in order to give people the knowledge and skills so they know what to do and to address behaviours. Once you get to Executive level you probably have most of the knowledge required to technically run a business (and you can find out fairly easily if not); in fact many successful executives have an MBA or other such business qualification. Yet, they often recognise there is more that can be done, improvements that can be made in both their behaviours and outputs and in business results.
Once you start addressing what is getting in the way (beliefs/values/identity) then that is Psychotherapy. I raise the standards of Coaching by engaging in a deeper level of change work with clients. An aspiring CEO may think they need more capabilities to be able to secure that promotion whereas they really need the higher level stuff.
In the same way an Executive is expected to spend much of their time thinking strategically whilst their management team handles the operational side of the business, so that Executive must take a strategic approach to their own development because it’s only by being inspired to change themselves that the people will follow and only then can the business itself achieve sustainable success and growth. If you want to be a CEO then you’ve got to learn how to be a Managing Director, not a Director who wants to be an MD or who acts like an MD. Identity wise, you are an MD when you change who you are.
It is our belief you cannot build a successful and functioning leadership team until the individuals have developed their own authentic leadership style. It is natural for business leaders to want to have their views heard so why not embrace that and unleash the creativity that comes from feeling valued. Everything we deliver is based on this approach to Leadership development.
Traditional Leadership Development |
Robertson Fox Approach to Leadership Development |
Focus is on leadership 'team' and importance given to team dynamics |
Focus is on individual Executives first and importance given to individual dynamics |
Short-term quick fix solution; only lasts as long as all players remain in the game and are willing to play ball |
Long-term sustainable change achieved; individuals leave a legacy and continue to make an impact wherever they go |
Business agenda imposed; individuals forced to adapt |
Business agenda adapted to suit individual style of operating |
Business strategy blamed for failure |
Business strategy owned and evolves to ensure business success |
Blame culture prevails leading to team dysfunctionality; no buy-in as culture and values imposed |
Individual ownership ensures that culture and values evolve as natural order of things |