“Stephen is someone I turn to for advice on my most complicated management challenges. He is always calm, always insightful, and always able to help me understand what I am actually trying to do. Unlike other experts, he never resorts to a template of opinion or a set way of doing things. Instead, he encourages me to describe the situation in which I find myself, and then to see the best way to change things. He is someone I feel lucky to be able to turn to whenever a challenge arises”.
Debora L. Spar, President Barnard College, New York
Executive Coaching is about RELATIONSHIPS and CHANGE.
A leader is only a leader in relationship with his constituents. A leader stops being a leader when she fails to understand when to change.
An organisation is in business because of its relationships with its customers, employees, suppliers, allies and competitors. It fails when it does not recognise when change is needed.
An individual’s fulfilment depends on the nature of her relationships: with herself, her fellow beings and herself in the world. That fulfilment is threatened when the individual fails to change his assumptions of himself, his fellow beings and himself in the world.
So that’s all I do. I coach to help you maximise the effectiveness of your relationships as well as your ability to change - to achieve the outcomes your require.
That doesn’t mean we won’t focus on such things as behaviour, strategy, process and sustainability. But the key always is how do you and you organisation relate to those issues – and how able are you to change at the right time and the right place?
My clients have a track record of success in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. If you think that I could help you, please contact me at: Stephen@stephenbarden.co.uk