Coaching
What is coaching?
Coaching has been described as a collaborative, solution-focused, results oriented and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the individual being coached. That may sound a little daunting, but let’s see what that actually means!
How can coaching help?
Business or executive coaching is an individualised, one-to-one relationship designed to assist you in developing and enhancing your professional effectiveness. It may be that you have recently been promoted, or perhaps your organisation has restructured and you find that you require additional skills. Or perhaps you are a budding leader being groomed for promotion, or you may simply wish to enhance your personal mastery and need some help to eliminate your limiting beliefs. You may be seeking promotion and finding that it is not happening for you as quickly as you would like. Maybe you want to improve the balance between work and life demands, whatever the situation, coaching is an effective way to help.
Our approach
Our Principal Consultant, Gay White is an experienced executive and business coach who can help you to unlock your potential. ”I use a cognitive behavioural approach to explore any limiting thoughts you may have and help you to reframe your beliefs. I will work in partnership with you to help you to clarify and understand your present situation, encourage you and help you to develop new strategies for dealing with any issues that you have, while helping you to work on a positive action plan to achieve the results you want.” This method has been shown to be an extremely effective way of achieving sustainable results.
Qualifications:
Gay holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology and a Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching. She is a member of the Association for Coaching and a founder member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Special Group in Coaching Psychology. Gay is a Registered Psychologist of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and is also a graduate member of the BPS. She is a founder member of the PSI Division of Work and Organisational Psychology’s Coaching Psychology Group, and is currently serving as Communications Officer. She is bound by the strict Codes of Ethics of these bodies.
To ensure that clients are offered the latest thinking and best practice
in coaching, Gay engages in a minimum of 30 hours Continuous Professional
Development annually. In line with best coaching practice, she receives
regular Coaching Supervision with qualified supervisors and peer groups.
Gay is qualified to use psychometric instruments if required.
Gay will encourage you to make changes in your life at a pace with which you feel challenged, while examining your thoughts and beliefs. “You will certainly be challenged, but you will reap the rewards. If you don’t move out of your comfort zone, nothing will change” she says.
Gay offers executive coaching, business coaching, career coaching and
team coaching.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. --M. Scott Peck
