You know when you need someone knowledgeable and supportive but uninvolved, who can coach / mentor you through a particular situation or period?
That's Me!
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Research suggests coaching clients report that thanks to coaching, they improve • relationships (73%), communication skills • (72%), interpersonal skills • (71%), work performance • (70%), work/life balance • (67%), and wellness • (63%)
The work I do with colleagues on a one-to-one basis tends to happen during periods of change, challenge, or uncertainty in client's lives
It may be when they're seeking or about to start in a new role. It might be when they're facing uncertainty, or a loss of confidence, focus or motivation. They might be simply tired of the loneliness of their post.
Some seek rebalancing due to changes at home. Some come because of changes at work. Some come because change has affected both work and home
I provide skills, performance, executive and confidence coaching / mentoring. Our work together usually will cover one or more of these areas:
wellbeing & life balance
mindset & confidence
career and skills development
stress management, resilience and boundaries
imposter syndrome, perfectionism and procrastination
performance & effectiveness
management skills & confidence
focus & motivation
isolation & disconnection
relationships and conflict resolution at work
coping with change and uncertainty
When I say coaching / mentoring, I provide a blend of the two. I deliver what you need at the time. Sometimes that's the support and questioning to discover the solution for yourself. Others, it's simply to tell you how things are done
skills
Skills coaching / mentoring is used when you don't know what you need to know. Where new skills, knowledge or competencies need to be learnt, honed and embedded.
This could be to help succeed in a new or expanded role, to prepare for a promotion or for career progression.
About half of my skills coaching clients approach me themselves to help them take a step forwards.
The other half come to me via a Manager who truly wants to promote an existing members of staff but doesn't have the time to coach them themselves.
We work on theory, examples, best practice and I share my own knowledge, skills and expertise.
performance
Performance coaching / mentoring is used when you know what you want or need to achieve, and know that you can achieve it, but need some support, help or some guided thinking through.
Performance coaching combines direct (taught) and indirect (listening & questioning) coaching.
Sometimes clients approach me, worried that they are under-performing and not feeling able to approach their line manager.
Other clients are introduced or referred by their line manager. I've successfully coached and mentored a number of individuals through PIPs using performance coaching.
confidence
More and more recently, I've been asked if I provide confidence coaching / mentoring (which I do). In fact, so frequent were the requests at the height of the pandemic in 2020, I piloted a group coaching programme, Change The Stories, to help people work through confidence, limiting belief and imposter syndrome issues.
Confidence coaching helps the individual to discover confidence for themselves. It's one of my favourite forms of coaching and the results are brilliant to see.
executive
Most of our recent executive coaching relationships have fallen into one or more of the following categories:
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Reflection on the changing needs of a current role against the backdrop of the range of demanding and complex external and internal challenges in leading not-for-profit teams and organisations in a post-2022 world
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Thinking through, positioning and preparing for a next career move or for a specific new role
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Provision of a safe environment to reflect and refocus on confidential issues, or issues that are important to you; acting as a sounding board and "mirror" for self-reflection
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Giving the space needed to talk about what it is you want from your role, and where you want to be in the future and what that means for you now
testimonial
Claire was incredibly understanding and flexible.
From taking calls from me in the stairway of my old workplace to taking calls in her car, she was a constant presence of calmness and reassurance.
The thing that surprised me about working with Claire is how much she drew out from me – she showed me how much value and confidence I had in myself already, but hadn’t fully pulled out and owned before.
Claire is hungry to achieve what is best for the individual as well as the organisation, and more than anyone else I’ve worked with, sees that these
two things often overlap more than you expect.
Claire has helped me take ownership of personal development, but also of rest, and how these two
acts that may be considered selfish will actually help me bring a better self to work.
If you want to work with someone who will challenge your thinking, support your growth and be a constant source of calm, Claire is your woman.
Andy King. Fireside Fundraising
why choose us?
lift. is a workplace culture, management & wellbeing consultancy, founded by CEO, Claire Warner. Claire is an award-winning Roffey Park Institute and Management Centre trained management specialist and a member of the Institute of Leadership and Management.
In a successful 19-year career as a fundraising senior leader, Claire helped raise more than £70 million for capital & revenue projects. But she found her real passion and her joy in managing and mentoring more than 100 fundraising and communications professionals, supporting many of them into managerial and leadership roles themselves.
In 2018, Claire founded a consultancy (now called Lift.) which helps organisations to develop their own way of delivering incredible results whilst lifting, not breaking, their staff. In 2019, She conducted the UK's first fundraising sector culture & wellbeing research; and is widely regarded as one of the leading specialists for not-for-profit and public sector work.Claire is now also an in-demand conference speaker and session facilitator and host, sharing the work and the ethos of Lift
find out more about the lift. team
executive coaching
Our coaching for Directors, Exec Directors, Senior Leaders, and CEOs, where the often peerless nature of their role and their responsibilities, leave them with no obvious critical friend, sounding board, rant-buddy, thinking partner or form of accountability.
These relationships sometimes last much longer than 6 sessions, purely because of the ongoing benefit to the recipient.
intensive session
Need help today (or tomorrow)?
a super-intensive 3hr session where we can thoroughly interrogate or forensically examine a specific situation, set of considerations, or other type of challenge
Need to reimagine the structure of your team? Need a critical friend to help you with a planning or scoping exercise? Need to hide away for half a day and get laser focussed on that one thing you keep ignoring?
need something else?
management training
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