You have provided support for ME that I never had before.
How have I contributed to your leadership?
Enabled the courage to own ‘who I am’ and the value that brings to role-modelling leadership and what it means to be a leader.
From a business perspective you have set aligned and achievable targets. In most cases things I knew I ‘could’ or ‘should’ be doing. I just needed someone to tweak a few ideas and someone who would ‘hold my hand’, so to speak to, while I focused on achieving those targets within an achievable and agreed timeframe.
I have really valued your support, and being a wise sounding board when I have needed it.
I found your coaching invaluable. Your ability to sew seeds and challenge my thinking, often without me even realising you were doing it. This skill and approach enhanced the learning for me, often when we are facing leadership challenges, we look for answers from external sources, when actually the solution already sits within our own knowledge and skillset, it just takes someone to give us the confidence to unlock it. You did this for me, and as a result I have grown as a leader, someone else giving you the answer may solve that one situation, but unlocking the confidence gives the ability to resolve issues over and over again. I often reflect on how you did that, and find it incredibly powerful. Although it may have been uncomfortable at the time, I will always be appreciative for it.
I now have greater self-awareness and growing confidence.
You have contributed most to my leadership by your focus on enabling me to draw out my own areas of strength and helping me to align those to my approach to leading others. Over the 10 years that I have worked with you as my coach, I have grown so much in my ability to adapt my leadership style to the person/group, and the situation. Your coaching has also significantly helped me to be an inclusive leader, bringing others along with me.
Amanda has helped me develop professional framing to lean into difficult conversations with structure, giving me much higher confidence to ‘manage up’.
I have greater confidence as a result of your coaching.
You have contributed to my self-confidence at work. Hearing your validation of my skills has helped me grow to a more confident leader in business. I feel braver to make decisions more decisively, and the guidance you gave through coaching helps me manage staff and my relationships at work to this day.
You have taught me to hold professionalism, growth and self-acceptance as a leader simultaneously, and to bring unconditional love into every aspect of my leadership. You have taught me presence and groundedness as a default.
You have helped ‘pull’ the real me back to the surface and confidently use the qualities I have that make me a natural leader. Also helped me understand where the doubt comes from and how to deal with it.
You have helped me focus on what’s important.
You have give me the tools to know how to create healthy boundaries in business and personal life.
You have helped me to find my calm space to think and not respond. Understand servant leadership and my natural strengths. Work through how to respond to others to make impact. How to coach others with real meaning and outcomes.
You’ve taught me that 99% of people are trying to do the right thing, although they may be struggling with how they get that across and there are many reasons for this, I just need to figure out what they are. It’s allowed me to see people for their unique characteristics and made me learn how to get the best from them. It’s changed my environment into one that’s far more empowering.
What are my skills as a coach?
Somehow you have an innate quality of seeing below the surface, the façade, the walls, and you get to the heart of the matter.
You help identify paths towards a positive outcome for individuals.
Engaged listening – beyond active listening. Where insightful questions and providing clarity sits, there is expressing recognition and empathy towards experiences, feelings and emotions. This is next level support as not only does it help build trust quickly, which is key in remote coaching, but it also demonstrates genuine interest that makes you feel valued as a person.
There are so many Amanda!! Deep care of others, empathy, a strong communicator in a group – you can tell a story or weave in a metaphor but always land the key points with clarity, connect deeply with individuals, generosity of spirit – you give of yourself to others, a natural coach – insightful questions.
Amanda is particularly gifted in being really present and a skilled listener/reflector throughout each session.
You have an amazing ability to provide insight to even the most complex issues. Your insightfulness has enabled many “aha” moments for me, creating awareness and understanding, and providing me with clarity on ways to move forward.
Amanda has very high emotional intelligence and quickly builds trust with warmth, patience, and empathy.
Clear thinking.
Being present and in the moment. Focusing on others in an engaged, empathetic and intuitive way. Reading between the lines. You are great at seeing what is not being said. Knowing what someone needs. Acceptance. Articulate.
Seeing what others do not & tactfully drawing attention to it so they are motivated to change. Intuitive thinking – rapidly combining many disparate pieces of information to articulate exactly what leaders need to hear and know to have deep profound insight instantly.
Being able to ‘look inside’ a person and ensure they can see what is really happening with them. You do this with your careful listening, great questioning and authentic communication of your insights – you take your responsibility as a coach seriously, we are with you to learn and grow and I feel energised and empowered after every interaction.
Getting people to open up, gaining trust.
You are gifted with a high level of emotional intelligence – specifically, your ability to read, understand and interpret the personalities of those people you deal with is unparalleled. You have the skill to dive into, and help hone, facets of a person’s personality and behaviour that leads to a more effective leadership style.
Deep listening.
Connecting with people and understanding the perspective of others to support personal growth.
You notice, you believe in people, you hold them so they can find their way home. Your skills and big heartedness are then shining lights in the sky that you have illuminated. You have transformed so many lives.
You make seemingly complex and potentially stressful situations simple and have this amazing ability to spin it around to be positive. Making the world of leadership simpler has hugely helped me.
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