Why you should bother with coaching

Before you decide whether coaching is the right option, let’s bust a few myths:

  • Quick fixes don’t work. Coaching takes commitment, both to making a change and to doing the work that will make that happen. You’ll explore your values, beliefs, and purpose, and create milestones to help you achieve your goals

  • Being a leader is hard. It creates a regular surge of emotions which aren’t always easy to control. Coaching helps you identify your strengths and areas for development so you can respond appropriately and reach your highest potential

  • Coaches aren’t magicians. You can’t walk in, share nothing and expect everything to change. You will have to do the work – applying techniques, learning from your experience and growing those skills

  • Coaching is challenging. You won’t be lying on a couch waiting for an epiphany like they do in the movies. You’ll have discussions, do exercises, and sometimes you’ll feel uncomfortable. That’s where you do your best learning – in a safe space where you can try things and reflect on them for the future

Finding the right coach

The point of coaching isn’t to make you immediately feel better. It’s to ask questions and help you work through issues so you can take action and make a specific change.

The right coach for you is someone who you can be honest with about your feelings, who helps celebrate your wins and who doesn’t mind you ranting at them when things don’t go to plan. Your coach will help you experience all the emotions that come with being a leader in a business and get you back to being you.

You may find the only place you feel completely comfortable is in your coaching session, behind closed doors. That’s ok. The important thing is you have that space and you’re working on the issues that surface.

Executive Coaching

Let’s not beat about the bush: executive coaching is not for the feint hearted. Working with an executive coach to get the results you need takes commitment, bravery, openness and vulnerability.

If you aren’t sure you’re ready for that, you aren’t alone. Lots of senior leaders feel unsure about whether coaching gets results. But here are three reasons to work with Astraea.

1)      You’ll work with an Executive coach who has walked at least a mile in your shoes and knows how to get rid of the blisters

2)      You’ll be able to share that being a leader isn’t easy and get the tools you need to achieve success

3)      You can stop hiding those parts of you which seem ‘weak’ or ‘unhelpful’ and instead become the best version of yourself

Burnout Coaching

Is that really a thing? Yes, absolutely it is. Thousands of people are suffering with chronic stress, feeling lost, overwhelmed and exhausted every single day. The reason? Too much focus on work and not enough recovery time.

The result? Swathes of employees at every level of the organisation suffering from burnout.

But what is burnout?

  • Your confidence is low

  • Your ability to make decisions is hampered

  • Your energy is through the floor

You may still be performing at a really high level, but you are also utterly exhausted. Yet life can be different.

Using a blend of accredited burnout coaching, Executive coaching, NLP and visualisation techniques, you can work through the causes of your burnout, its impact, and learn how to prevent it having a permanent effect on your life. Burnout coaching will help you move on from the past and achieve your full potential.

HR Development Coaching

Being a leader in HR is a tough job. Even in the best cultures, you have competing priorities and limited budgets, so finding time to develop the skills you need can feel impossible.

What you need is someone who’s been there, done that, got the t-shirt and been a valued member of multiple executive teams.

Improving your influencing skills isn’t something you’ll find taught in a CIPD course, because it takes practical experience. Through HR development coaching you’ll expand the suite of skills you have to operate as an effective People leader.

You’ll benefit from:

  • Sharing your concerns with someone who truly understands the pressures you’re facing and wants to help you overcome them

  • The experiences of an HR leader who’s survived everything from executives getting antsy to employees working in political unrest

  • Working with a champion of HR who helps you demonstrate your value to the business as you improve your communication, commercial understanding and influence

You’re ready to be an HR leader, you just need a little help to do it with oomph.

What coaching involves

While the specific focus will vary, the approach to coaching is always consistent at Astraea:

  1. Identify core beliefs and values (we go deep!)

  2. Agree focus and overcome perceived limitations

  3. Take actionable steps to make dreams become a reality

Your coaching sessions are:

  • private and always 1:1. Whether you come in-person or online depends on where you’re based and the support you need

  • focused on outcomes. Coaching is about helping you make decisions and moving things forward for you

  • strictly confidential. Your need to be able to be brave, vulnerable and everything in between. Coaching is a safe space for you to do that.

It all starts with a 30-minute, no obligation call where we can get to know each other and check we’d work well together. Book yours today.