'The coaching sessions were an opportunity to focus on me, something I don’t normally do; to reflect and take stock. At times this was challenging. My coach helped me to use the strong emotional currency that I bring to the organisation I work for. The sessions focused me on what I wanted to achieve and got me to stop chasing routes that were not right for me.'
Can you make the difference you want and need to make? Do you want to:
Craft and deliver your unique contribution, so you suceed and so does your organisation
Explore complex issues, test out plans, grow new ideas
Rise to personal and professional challenges of skill, scope, scale and complexity in times of change
Sharpen your strengths and deepen your self confidence
Speak openly, hear yourself think, energise your working life
Persian poet Rumi wrote, 'Don't sit with indifferent people whose breath comes cold out of their mouths'. When you choose to work with one of our coaches you are choosing a commitment to your best self. Our coaches are not indifferent people; they know and understand the challenges of life, work and business, are qualified, committed to their own development and have great expertise in enabling change.
When working with groups or teams, Irving Allan coaches:
Use straightforward frameworks that clarify team processes
Notice what isn't discussed as well as what is
Look at hidden dynamics impacting team functioning
Enquire into misconnections and disconnections in the team and the wider organisation
Enable effective strategies and productive relationships
Change, psychology and you
Irving Allan brings together psychology and business consultancy, with some unique types of coaching available. We can support you in addressing individual experiences of change, in a carefully structured half day or day small-group session, and coach you specifically in your role as a sponsor or change agent.
Evaluation and strategic delivery
We want our coaching to deliver value, so we integrate evaluation into our coaching work. With larger coaching programmes, our methods ensure that the organisation as a whole benefits from aggregated information for strategic purposes, and coaching is aligned to organisational needs, while respecting the necessary confidentiality of individual coaching sessions.
'My coach provided expert and comprehensive coaching to me during a particularly difficult and taxing time. The Children’s Directorate as a whole and me specifically were facing a challenging change process that required careful and skilled coaching; my coach employed her abundant listening skills and most importantly solid and thoughtful advice – that advice was used to good effect in that I was able to turn what could have been a negative experience into a very positive one. She received my thanks and respect for her professional and considered contribution.'
