Enhancing your leadership

Capacity

Capability

Confidence

Together we can...

Build your resilience and effectiveness in uncertain and stressful environments.

Broaden your natural influencing style, expanding your capability to develop and sustain positive relationships with stakeholders with contrasting and varied perspectives and interests.

Deepen your self-awareness, how you respond to difficult, challenging, complex situations and the impact you have on others.

Help you understand when you may feel vulnerable and how you might utilise this positively.

Aid you as you transition into a new role; what your new role means for you, how others may now view you, reaffirm the strengths you bring to your new role, and help you acknowledge what you may be leaving behind.

Positively utilise feedback from a range of sources for your continuous growth and development.

Fresh perspective

"It was a pleasure to have Sian Taylor as my coach whilst I was dealing with a major restructure at work.

Having time to reflect and talk openly to Sian was invaluable as the sessions gave me the opportunity to focus on coping strategies for myself. Her stimulating questions made me think and have given me a fresh perspective.

I made commitments to take decisive action to enable me to manage the situation at work which I kept to because I had agreed them with Sian; I am confident I can sustain that approach now.

The coaching helped me to keep a sense of perspective and to become stronger as a senior leader."

Sandra Sharpe, Deputy Director, Manchester Metropolitan University

Let us...

Enhance your capacity to cope positively in high pressured situations, aiding you to demonstrate care and compassion for others.

Strengthen your ways of working with others to develop and articulate clear common purpose, enhancing performance and inspiring those you lead.

Work through difficult or challenging conversations and situations.

Help you instil and sustain an ethos and culture of continuous learning within your teams, helping them to keep seeking ways to do things differently and deal with the challenges they face.

Enhance how you develop the capability and capacity of others; as individuals, teams, departments/services.

Leading major change

"Last year I was asked to lead on a major change project within my institution and having regular coaching sessions with Sian provided an invaluable opportunity to reflect on the issues and challenges I was facing.

Not only did this allow me to gain a deeper understanding of the issues, it also enabled me to analyse and rehearse a range of responses in a safe and supportive environment. I have no doubt that Sian’s coaching contributed to my success in a new and challenging role."

JA, Deputy Dean

Jointly, we will...

Help you cultivate a culture and environment that is empowering, motivating and inclusive throughout your organisation.

Consolidate your capacity in managing uncertainty in complex circumstances.

Enhance your ability to influence others directly and indirectly, across organisational boundaries.

Deepen your capability in managing a myriad of contrasting expectations and finding constructive ways forward.

Aid you to step back to see the system from differing perspectives, and the role and impact you have within it.

Navigating complex leadership dilemmas

"Working with Sian has been a transformative experience during a challenging transition phase in my career at a new institution. As I was tasked with leadership responsibilities in the context of my new institution’s own organisational change, Sian has been an invaluable companion, enabling me to navigate the complex leadership dilemmas that the change brought.

Through Sian’s deeply empathetic, genuinely invested and non-judgmental coaching style, I was able to see, name and begin to address on a very practical level the specific layers of a complicated organisational and interpersonal setting, which was negatively affecting my work with others.

I started the coaching programme with Sian with a desire to develop a leadership style that can deal with the wider issues effectively and with authority, but which remains at the same time authentic to who I am as a person and the kind of ethos I want to inspire in others. I feel that Sian has been completely attuned to this desire from the outset and throughout our sessions and I have no doubt that my personal growth has been possible because of it."

Prof Maggie Kubanyiova, Research Centre Director, University of Leeds