Executive coaching services for UK and global business
Our depth and breadth of experience in executive coaching services can help a wide range of individuals in your UK and global management team, including senior and chief executives, to fully develop their potential.
Executive coaching can be a vital point of your Talent Management and Succession Planning process. See our pages on HR Consultancy to find out how our occupational psychologists can help you with: talent reviews; psychometrics and other assessment tools; 360° feedback; development centres and succession management
How We Work With You
Whether you need to cultivate future leaders or develop skills from entry levels onwards, we can match each of your executives with an SML coach with whom they 'click'.
For example, if you are growing your own global leaders, our coaching sessions might focus on:
- Human aspects of managing change and getting 'buy in' from stakeholders from the top to the grass roots level
- Achieving a clearer understanding of 'the big picture', at corporate and global level
- Reading 'organisational politics' and devising influencing strategies which engage all stakeholders and create synergy
- Increasing self-awareness and 'emotional intelligence' for leadership
- Developing cross-cultural competence
If, on the other hand, you are seeking to develop self-confidence and personal effectiveness in executives who are making a career transition or moving well outside their comfort zone, the focus would change accordingly.
Our personalised and flexible approach to coaching extends also to the format, frequency and duration of sessions. Whether face-to-face or remote, all sessions are timed to fit in with the preferences and business constraints for each executive.
How Our Clients Describe an SML Coach
We can give you the names of clients who have given SML their permission to be contacted for personal references.
In the meantime, the feedback we receive from clients tends to describe their SML coach as:
An SML coach:
- Open, honest, confident
- Warm, supportive, focused on you personally
- Offers 'models' and relevant up-to-date research findings as appropriate
- Active listener with the experience and insight to help you reframe and find new solutions to 'people issues'
- Particularly interested in cross-cultural and remote influencing/management/leadership
