The challenge for the 21st Century organisation is to switch your managers from supervising to leading and developing others. This switch in emphasis is a vital factor in your ability to become a visionary and values led organisation and requires your leaders to be adept at balancing both the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ performance criteria. This balancing act demands the highest levels of behavioural, communication and interpersonal skills from your leaders, who should be role models for your values in action.

We help your managers to become leaders. We develop them as visionaries, values champions, change agents, motivators and team builders. And from their new-found skills, they build a leadership style based on openness and trust and a performance culture based on coaching and facilitating for business improvement.

Specific tools and activities

• Authentic Leadership Development
• Business Leadership Coaching

Authentic Leadership Development

What is ‘authentic leadership’?

Authentic is defined as: a) genuine, b) reliable and c) trustworthy.

Lead is defined as: a) cause to go with one especially by guiding or showing the way,
b) direct the actions or opinions of, c) guide by persuasion or example or argument and
d) be in charge.

So we are looking at what it takes to be genuine, reliable and trustworthy in how you guide, persuade or direct others.

The Leadership context

Taking a stand means having a clear vision and communicating it articulately, showing ways of achieving the vision. The passion in the vision inspires others to follow and to seek the opportunities of the vision, this works in the dimensions of emotion and spirituality, not simply cognitive reasoning.

This demands the skills of:

• Authentic communication,
  
• Managing emotions – yours and others,
  
• Providing a real sense of purpose and meaning,
  
• Living and working to clear values.
  

A leader requires great self-awareness to achieve these skills, which is a pre-requisite for authentic leaders, made easier because they are doing what they believe in and are open and collaborative creators. Our programme aims to provide your leaders with a high level of self awareness combined with these four essential behavioural, communication and relationship skills.

Business Leadership Coaching

To help you develop the 21st Century leaders with the vision, skills and style to lead by values and not just manage by data, we offer a package of coaching and facilitation services. These services are designed to help your managers, at all levels of the organisation, to manage themselves, to lead others and to create a working environment where coaching is used as the main tool for generating performance improvements.

Our coaching and facilitation services

• Face to face, individual coaching programmes
• Blended face to face and eCoaching programmes
  
• 360 degree feedback with pre and post coaching measurement
  
• ‘Coaching for performance’ - skills transfer and coaching culture development
  
• ‘Giving and receiving feedback’ - skills transfer workshop
• Interpersonal and communication skills development workshop
  
• Career counselling and life skills coaching
  

Our resources and capability

We have an international team of highly experienced, accredited business performance coaches which allows us to offer you on-site and off-site coaching support anywhere in Europe. And, if required, we have links with US, Middle and Far East coaching organisations to extend our reach beyond Europe. Our team can provide clinic based or individual session based coaching, tailored to individual managers needs either purely face to face or with a blend of face to face and eCoaching (telephone and email) support. The same team designs and delivers our coaching and facilitating skills transfer workshops where the accent is on experiential learning and the development of high level communication and interpersonal relationship skills. These are the skills which are vital to enabling your managers to lead by values and to create the all important ‘coaching for performance’ culture.

Our passion for providing you with tangible business improvements extends to our coaching services where we insist on conducting a pre and post coaching assessment, invariably through individual 360 degree feedback, to assess the success of your coaching programme.

Code of ethics and good practice

Simons Maclean Ltd is a founder organisational Member of the Association for Coaching and abides by their code of ethics and good practice. Therefore, clients can expect a high standard of practice from their Coach. To ensure that this is achieved our coaches commit to operate in accordance with the Association’s Code for ethical, competent and effective practice:


www.associationforcoaching.com
The AC is an independent non profit organisation with the goal to promote best practice, raise awareness and standards across the UK Coaching industry, while providing value added benefits to its members – whether they are professional Coaches or Organisations involved in Coaching.

“The winning executives will be….people who share their ideas and their vision, gain commitment and create excitement and then work together to ensure that their vision becomes a winning reality. I am convinced that the way we manage our people offers one of the greatest change opportunities in commercial life. Like all big changes it will not be without risk and will need courage and vision”
‘Big Change, a route map for corporate transformation’ by Paul Taffinder