FREE Yourself from Limits

FREE Yourself from Limits

  • Be courageous
  • Increase self trust and creativity
  • Transform self belief and reduce self doubt
  • Connect powerfully with others
  • Engage others into you and your vision
Quality of YOUR Experience

Quality of YOUR Experience

  • Be more comfortable with you
  • Improve your authenticity
  • Bring forward more of your inante qualities
  • Less holding back and missing out
  • More freedom and fun!

About How I Work…

I am a behaviour change expert, leadership and career coach.  I offer coaching and leadership programmes – both on a 1:1 basis and in groups.

For 1:1 coaching I usually work with clients for a minimum of 9 months which gives them space and time to make sustainable behaviour changes.

I stand for being alongside my clients in their journey, being open hearted and honouring.

I am the coach for you if:

  • You want to develop self awareness, emotional intelligence and self insight to serve you for the rest of your career. 
  • You want to transform, propel or step up your leadership.
  • You want to transform your confidence, self belief and reduce self doubt.
  • You know there is much more to you that your current leadership capacity. You want ‘more’ – to reignite your purpose and passion for your current or future roles.
  • You want to be more comfortable with your own unique leadership style and how you engage/connect with your team.
  • You want to empower your team to step up, thinking for themselves and use their initiative.
  • You want to sustainably increase your team’s performance and ability to be self solving.

I love to work with leaders who want to propel their leadership growth or who want to step-up to a new level themselves in their leadership. I use my warmth, incisiveness, empathy and openness to provide a ‘fertile ground’ in which my clients explore their capacity and are listened to with an open heart.

I work alongside clients in their growth, sharing my wisdom and empowering them to be free to be the leader they are truly capable of.

My coaching style is open, direct, encouraging and purposeful…drawing on my depth of knowledge, creativity, enthusiasm and personal wisdom.

I am a Senior Practitioner member with EMCC and ILM7 qualified.

To find out more about working with me please email me: nicci@awareleadership.co.uk.  

Inner Confidence Coaching

Inner Confidence Coaching

 

Does your inner voice like to give you a hard time?

 

 

 

Does any of this sound familiar…do you:

  • Regularly hear your negative voice saying you’ll be found out? You are not doing enough?
  • Hold back your comments or real excitement or enthusiasm?
  • Avoid difficult conversations or putting yourself forward?
  • Avoid networking or presenting?

I have many clients who have transformed their self confidence – and sometimes not always consciously!  As someone who has had challenges with this myself I know how limiting it can be to be confident on the outside and less so on the inside.  Enhancing self awareness and inner confidence can significantly transform:

  • Your Impact – reducing the frequency self doubt and increasing your willingness to step through fear and show your true, authentic self
  • Your Career – increase your ability and willingness to put your forward and self acknowledge your achievements
  • Your Partnerships/Relationships – increase your willingness to connect meaningfully with others and be an authentic leader
  • Your Leadership – increase your personal presence, ability to be authentic and capacity to lead from the front in challenging circumstances, with compassion

 

I work with clients for a minimum of 6 months, usually 2 weekly or monthly,  which gives them space and time to make sustainable behaviour changes.

To find out more about how to transform your self confidence please email me: nicci@awareleadership.co.uk or call me on 07817 246930.  OR you can pop a question or comment into my live online chat box!

Behaviour Change Programmes

Behaviour Change Programmes

 

Is your leadership behaviour serving you well? 

 

 

Does any of this sound familiar…do you:

  • Regularly wonder why your team aren’t proactive and taking initiative?
  • Like to put on your persona, but really you know you are capable of more? Or fed up with the strain of holing up a facade?
  • Have an ongoing frustration with how things are, including members of your team?
  • Avoid leading from the front or embracing the challenges of leading a team?

I have many clients who have changed their behaviour – and now know the difference that self awareness and emotional intelligence makes.  In my own leadership I have made significant and transformative behaviour changes that have meant me being part of and creating projects that I would have never thought possible.  Taking the courageous step to look at and/or being willing to change your behaviour is an empowering and transforming experience.

Behaviour change can significantly transform:

  • Your Impact – removing the behaviours or habits that are no longer serving you
  • Your Career – increasing your capacity and motivation to handle challenges head on
  • Your Partnerships/Relationships – increase your ability to connect meaningfully with purpose and hold clear boundaries
  • Your Leadership – increase your authenticity and self mastery to handle your reactions and emotional state

I work with clients for a minimum of 6-12 months, usually 2 weekly or monthly,  which gives them space and time to make sustainable behaviour changes.

To find out more about how to transform your behaviour please email me: nicci@awareleadership.co.uk or call me on 07817 246930.  OR you can pop a question or comment into my live online chat box!

Group Leadership Programmes

Group Leadership Programmes

      Freedom Programme

Exciting News!  I have recently developed a new leadership 8 month programme which provides a blend of 121 coaching and targeted 1/2 day group training sessions.

I am very passionate about this programme as it is a wonderful opportunity for a group of leaders or associates to go on a powerful leadership journey together.

About the programme:

This is an intensive experiential and bespoke programme for professionals who want to transform their leadership behaviour and develop the ability to adapt to the ever changing business context.

This programme is centred on both individual leadership and group learning for 6-9 leaders.

Purpose: To explore where you are in your leadership, your defining style and how current challenges can propel leadership growth. To define a conscious purpose and vision for your leadership, developing emotional intelligence and inner strength to hit current challenges head on. Building leadership behaviour changes that will support you to adapt to the wider organisational context.

‘When you change your behaviour, you have the ability to transform how people respond to you’

Programme Highlights
• 6×1:1 behaviour change coaching
• 4x ½ day group training sessions
• 2 x follow up online group sessions
• Online forum to connect and share learning

Programme Outline
1:1 Behaviour Change Coaching – exploring your personal challenges in leadership and empowering you as an individual’s to bring forward your best
Current Leadership Capacity – exploring where you are currently in your leadership, including challenges and capabilities. Building a self assessment to bring about behaviour change
Purposeful Leadership – exploring where your inner critic may hold you back as individuals and/or as a team. Developing mindful techniques to facilitate behaviour change. Learning transforming tools to highlight and build emotional resilience
Flexing Leadership Style – exploring your leadership style and how this impacts your day to day results. Learning how to adapt and flex your style according to the context
Personal Leadership Vision – exploring your individual vision for your leadership and identifying key barriers that are in your way. Identifying key qualities that you can develop to build behaviour change and sustainable growth.

Benefits
• Increased personal mastery for individuals significantly reducing holding back in their leadership
• Increased self confidence and resolve to step forward and face challenges head on
• Increased ability to adapt to different leadership styles and uphold the context of the organisation’s purpose
• Increased self-motivation and emotional intelligence within the current (and developing) business culture
• Increased ability for individuals to embrace the leader that they are and change behaviour that limits or minimises their professional impact

Wow eh?  I get really excited whenever I read the content of this programme.

Interested?  Please do get in touch.  You may have questions or want to explore how this programme may fit for your organisation or group.  Free seminars and taster sessions are available.

Please contact me at nicci@awareleadership.co.uk or call me on 07817 246930.  Or get online in a live conversation with me!

Not for Profit Leaders

Not for Profit Leaders

So you have come to the right place if you’re a director, head of service or aspiring manager in a not for profit organisation.

You may want to develop your leadership skills, be better at building relationships and partnerships or just plain under pressure looking for a better work/life balance.

These days being politically astute and being able to get the job done is great but the world is changing, budgets are tighter and tighter and greater commercial acumen is needed to adapt to a more entrepreneurial marketplace.  Being a not for profit leader requires significantly more than just being able to keep all the plates spinning.  More of you is required!

You get the job done well in your social enterprise or charitable sphere, you have all the relevant expertise and to date this has carried you through.  You’ve made your way up, your team appreciate you and yet you know you can have much more impact if you reduce that self doubt or are able to engage staff and partners in a more powerful way.

In this arena of austerity, how can you bring teams and others on board into a sometimes ever changing agenda? You can do the usual, but this usually ends up with you working silly hours and still you don’t seem to be making the impact you know you are capable of.  You don’t know where to start to reduce working hours or stop the inner critic that is swirling around in your head.  You’re feeling de-motivated, frustrated, put upon, stressed, confused and certainly pressured.

My powerful individual and group coaching programmes will help you develop vital purpose and personal skills that will give life to your leadership and team.  You will find the passion, motivation, release to be the leader and person you are – not fitting a mould or political persona but developing how to build a powerful purpose and communication techniques that will transform your professional impact.

To find out more about coaching with me please email me: nicci@awareleadership.co.uk or call me on 07817 246930.  OR you can pop a question or comment into my live online chat box!

3 Crucial Steps to Engage Your Team

3 Crucial Steps to Engage Your Team

I have many conversations with clients and others about how important it is to enrol your team into your leadership – and ultimately – YOU.

After all, as a leader you are engaging your team and others into you and your vision. They are looking to you for leadership albeit even at a basic level for a role, a task, a purpose. Even as a parent you lead in this respect.

Its well know these days that an empowered, connecting and common purpose is a fundamental motivator for a high performing, well engaged workforce.

I’ve heard many complaints over the last month about how teams don’t speak up, aren’t proactive or don’t think for themselves. They should know how to just get on with things right? Why do they keep taking up your time by asking questions – even worse the same questions!

Or the other popular complaint: team members not speaking up in team meetings, or indeed at other crucial times when something is going on. There is big consequences to that of course – you want better client relationships, quality of service, client satisfaction – they may be hiding poor service, mistakes or withholding potential golden information about client opportunities.

You are frequently hearing the sound of your own voice…complaining or saying the same spiel to keep things moving and it can be pretty lonely in that place.

Now, where is your part in this? Check in with yourself and ask the following:

  • Realness – now this is a biggie. How REAL are you being with your team? Yourself… truthful…open & honest about your frustrations or purpose. Its very common (some may say human nature) to put up a facade, persona at work – especially in leadership. This usually comes down to concerns about being ‘found out’ or believing we need to look ‘competent’, ‘strong’ or my personal favourite ‘all seeing, all knowing’. It’s a very different mindset to be in partnership with your team
  • Communication – have you communicated not just tasks but the bigger picture? Especially if you are noticing some dis-engagement. Its so important to communicate vision and INTENT as well as the practical stuff. How else do teams know what the purpose is or what they are going for? I hear a lot of clients assuming that their purpose or expectations are known
  • Open Your Ears and Your Heart – its all very well saying, ‘I want to hear from everyone’ in a team meeting but do you REALLY? Do you listen and seriously allow your team to speak freely, put ideas forward – even if you don’t agree with them? Do you ask questions, get curious? And are there other ways in your day to day behaviour that you dismiss comments, concerns or ideas? There is usually a much bigger cultural picture that stems from patterns of behaviour. You may be all ears in a team meeting but do you dismiss day to day comments outside of this? I’ve seen this happen many times!

This is no-ones fault of course, if your team aren’t responding or being as proactive as you would like. Its just as it is right now. That’s what I am passionate about – that leadership is always learning, growing. There’s no right or wrong to how things are – it just is what it is.

What’s more important is whether your current behaviour is working, serving you and your organisation well. Not just in terms of numbers but the quality of day to day work life. If you want something different from your team or the context has shifted – something different is required from you and them. Herein lies your golden opportunity.

How great is that! Some of our greatest challenges or changes can be a huge fertile ground for growth…

‘When you change your behaviour you can transform your experience and how people respond to you’