Colleague Coaching

Enabling conversations to improve teamwork

Trees connect through a complex underground network that shares resources and protects saplings for mutual benefit.

How good is the flow of communication in your workplace?

How can you collaborate with your colleagues more effectively?

Most colleagues share a mutual goal – to do a good job and to help their team do the same.

However, this can get lost in translation and misunderstandings can occur, especially when individual thinking styles differ markedly.

Colleague Coaching involves you and your colleague having an open and honest conversation within a safe coaching environment. This enables colleagues to better understand you to work more effectively together.

The positive takeaways are that it:

Throws light on the relationship dynamics that affect performance
Identifies the root causes of challenges in relationships
Draws out the opportunities for complementary ways of working
Points the way to practical strategies that allow everyone to work at their best

Colleague Coaching works well in situations where performance is good and at the same time but where you recognise there may be different working styles that are not mutually understood. By identifying, appreciating and accommodating each others’ ways of working, Colleague Coaching can positively impact neurodivergent professionals, the wider team and the business:

With Clare as a conduit we have discovered that what I need is entirely reasonable, and we now have some really practical strategies to help with our communication.

PLAN

Why now?
What’s working well?
What is challenging?
What needs to happen?
What ground rules and boundaries do you need to agree on?

CHECK

Summarise action points
Evaluate progress against the plan
Assess the impact on the wider team

CREATE

What can you do differently to enhance your working relationship?
How will you implement the agreed changes?

How do your communication and working styles differ?
How can you better use neurodistinct strengths?
Where might neurodiversity be holding you back?

For your executive coaching to succeed, there needs to be understanding, trust and mutual respect. My work with you starts with a complimentary, no-obligation conversation to explore your needs, and what I can offer to support you. Contact me to find out more

Next Steps

Contact me to find out
how I can help you succeed

Testimonials

I wish this conversation between me and my boss had taken place sooner. With Clare as a conduit we have discovered that what I need is entirely reasonable, and we now have some really practical strategies to help with our communication.

I now have a much better understanding of the potential impact of what I say, and how I say things. We have negotiated workable, mutually-beneficial strategies. It was enormously validating to hear my manager share positive and specific feedback about my impact on the team.

Having the confidence to share how I work best with my superiors, in a safe environment, has led to benefits for the whole team: our continuous improvement process is now much clearer and has already produced time savings.

Just one professionally facilitated conversation showed how we were failing to recognise each others' talents and challenges, even though we had been working together for a long time. Clare drew those out of us with both compassion and insight.