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Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is an individualised approach to your professional development that focuses on results and outcomes.

At JulianMiles, we work at length with leaders in organisations to provide a range of focused and individual one-to-one executive leadership coaching services. Our focus is to work with senior management to allow them to understand and develop ways to improve their personal performance and the impact they can have on business performance.

The further up an organisation an individual leader progresses, the greater the pressure on their available time. With these critical time pressures in mind, we have developed specific one-to-one leadership coaching programme that offers superb “value for time.”

Leadership coaching focuses on building both the confidence and capabilities of an individual, ensuring that they are able to contribute fully to their organisations' success. We develop effective leadership that impacts upon organisational performance not just the performance of individuals. Some of the leadership practices that we expect to develop through our coaching:

Leaders who represent excellent approaches to work and become a role model for other potential leaders

Leaders who inspire a shared vision and recognise they can never take their people farther than they have travelled themselves.  

Leaders, who challenge established practices, acknowledge mistakes and learn how to revitalize old processes into transformed procedures.

Through coaching, leaders will improve their ability to

• Motivate their teams and turn them into high performing units
• Communicate with authority and confidence to people at all levels
• Be more pro-active and anticipate business problems
• Be outstanding and inspirational leaders
• Improve their sales performance
• Develop planning and strategic thinking skills
• Improve their internal political savvy & networking
• Improve their business skills to think and act like a manager and a leader
• Take their business to the next level

We provide coaching on a one-on-one basis, providing an invaluable source of support and development for your top management.

Our main goals are to help you improve communications, enhance the leadership within your company, increase sales and profits, and take your personal development to the next level

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Improve your bottom line!

Coaching is proactive and solution based; the sessions are focused on change, learning new skill sets, taking action and obtaining powerful results. A recent Chartered Institute of Management study found that organisations that use coaching for their staff produce the most satisfied work force, with the least amount of absenteeism, ill health, stress and high turnover.

Coaching focuses people on achieving goals, rather than dwelling upon failures. The role of the coach is to provide distinct support where the coach will focus solely on an individual’s situation with the kind of attention and commitment that the individual will rarely experience elsewhere.

The GROW model underpins the coaching framework. This gives coaching its distinct forward- moving characteristic. GROW stands for goals, reality, option and will. It helps the coach and client clarify what they are working to achieve, ensure that all actions are geared towards achieving the goals and develop motivation to take action. The coach provides new perspective, an objective detachment and commitment which enables the client realise their intended results.

Benefits of coaching for the business include:

Increased productivity, as people are encouraged to stay in action

Retention of staff, people stay because they feel valued

Better quality of decision making

Better risk management

Improved relationships, openness, communication

Faster problem solving – as people take on the challenge of issues

For the person being coached:

They experience a refreshed sense of their own development and learning,

Increased enthusiasm, as energy is released and channelled

Release of tension, pressure and stress as emotions are surfaced and liberated

Areas where executive coaching would benefit managers or top level executives might include:

an organisation has decided to align its management behaviours to core values such has integrity and innovation;

an individual being groomed for senior management who may need to gain skills before making that move.

Coaching influencers is an obvious place to begin. Many senior managers and executives now see having a coach as a natural support for their on-going personal success and sense of well-being.

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In many jobs, you may have to give presentations, but they don’t have to be to be scary if you take the following simple steps

Prepare and Practice. You cannot talk effectively about any topic if you are not prepared. Know your subject matter then practice. One of Toastmaster International’s 10 top tips for public speaking is Practice, Practice, and Practice! Rehearse and revise as necessary. Be prepared for the unexpected, time your presentation so you can deliver the best in your allotted time. Good preparation will produce confidence.

Focus on your audience. By focusing you hold their attention. Make eye contact. This is a wonderful tool for getting feedback from your audience. If you are looking at them, you can read their non verbal message and adjust your delivery if needed. The best communicators are sensitive to the power of emotions and thoughts of their audience.

Be yourself. Trying to be polished and perfect will ruin your presentation. People expect you to speak about what you know, they expect you to be well prepared and fluent about your subject, but they expect to see a real person not a performer. Deliver your presentation in a clear informative way.

Enjoy your delivery. A really effective presentation is lively and interesting. Presenting in an animated confident manner engages your audience. According to Professor Max Atkinson in his book, Lend Me your Ears, ‘Enthusiasm is the easiest emotion to convey and you can’t have enough of it!’

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More on financial literacy and empowerment for women. This is an excerpt from an article by Kim Kiyosaki, wife of Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame. . Kim Kiyosaki is the author of Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women—Because I Hate Being Told What to Do

 This article is entitled 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Rich

Why Women Must Become Investors

A young journalist approached me recently and said passionately, “We have to make women aware that they have to take charge of their money. They cannot depend on someone else to do that for them!” After talking with her more, I discovered where her passion was coming from. It turns out her 50-year-old mother recently divorced. She was left with basically nothing and had moved in with her daughter. Her daughter was now supporting herself and her mother. This situation alone was a wake-up call for the young journalist, and it shook her up. In looking ahead, she realized that if her steady paycheck stopped, she had a total of about $7,000 to fall back on. She was suddenly propelled into action.

The reasons for becoming investors are very different between the sexes. We know that we lead very different lives than our mothers did, but you may be surprised at just how different.

Here are five sound reasons why women need to get into this game called investing.