Business and Personal Coaching
for Individuals and Teams

Business and Personal Coaching for Individuals and Teams

ABOUT ME

Who I am

I am a Business, Leadership and Life Coach, certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) with over 700 hours of coaching. I have a background in software development, business analysis and consulting. I have years of experience in roles ranging from the lead Business Analyst on a transactional banking product, to Operations Director for a medium sized software development company, as well as a coach and mentor, within companies and privately.

Working with entrepreneurs and leaders in business led me to combine coaching with business analysis and consulting, when my clients were looking for direction and solutions in their businesses or personal lives. This allows me to combine all my skills and experience when working with individuals and teams to get positive results, and enjoy the work I do.

How I work

I coach using the Solution Focused approach. This is a forward looking model that focuses on solution development, building on skills and resources the client already has. It is not absorbed in analysing problems.

We work together to identify what the client wishes to change or achieve using questions that stretch their thinking and consider different perspectives. We do explore problems or challenges sufficiently to clarify and gain understanding. We identify occasions when the problem does not occur, or where a similar challenge has been overcome. We examine what worked to enable the client to develop a way forward.

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Who I am

I am a Business, Leadership and Life Coach, certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) with over 700 hours of coaching. I have a background in software development, business analysis and consulting. I have years of experience in roles ranging from the lead Business Analyst on a transactional banking product to Operations Director for a medium sized software development company as well as coach and mentor within companies and privately.

Working with entrepreneurs and leaders in business led me to want to combine coaching with business analysis and consulting assignments when my clients were looking for direction and solutions in their businesses or personal lives. This has allowed me to combine all my skills and experience when working with individuals and teams with very positive results and enjoy the work I do.

How I work

I coach using the Solution Focused approach. This is a forward looking model that focuses on solution development, building on skills and resources the client already has. It is not absorbed in analysing problems. We work together to identify what the client wishes to change or achieve using questions that stretch their thinking and consider different perspectives. We do explore problems or challenges sufficiently to clarify and gain understanding while identifying occasions when the problem does not occur, or where a similar challenge has been overcome or objective achieved before. We examine what worked to enable the client to develop a way forward.

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ABOUT COACHING

What is coaching and how does it work?

Coaching is an extremely useful partnering process that assists people to find their own solutions to problems, cope with change or upheaval in their lives or move forward with situations they have been stuck with. Some of the many circumstances it can be helpful for include:

 making different career choices or tough decisions

figuring out where you want to take your business, how to deal with an overwhelming workload, or manage your time better

dealing with leadership situations and conflict with work colleagues or family members

coping with anxiety in different situations

building confidence

handling difficult conversations

My role as a Coach is not to give advice or offer solutions, but to guide you through a process, listening and asking questions, providing a space for you to think, reflect and work out what you are really wanting to solve, change or achieve. Together we will identify what existing skills you can use to cope with, or solve, the situation you find yourself in, or create the situation you would prefer to have.  We will uncover ways that usually work for you and strengths you already have. How you might start to achieve the outcome you would like will emerge.

Coaching is session based, meaning that we focus on something useful for you each time we meet. It may spill over into another session or several sessions, but we try focus on something specific each time.  Sessions can be virtual or face to face, and normally take 60 to 75 minutes. You bring the topic or situation that you’d like to focus on and a willingness to participate.

BENEFITS OF COACHING

How can coaching help you?

The benefits of coaching are varied and can be valuable in both one’s personal and business life. Benefits that people have experienced include:

defining and achieving career goals

building an awareness and understanding of self

ability to prioritise and plan

improved conflict management

coping in a new role with confidence

courage to face a difficult situation

a team responding to maturing leadership skills

clarity on a career path

These benefits are sometimes seen immediately or experienced gradually over time.

A person who is struggling with making an important decision, or choosing a course of action could leave their coaching session with clarity on the choice they would like to make immediately. Alternatively, they could leave knowing what information they still need, or the next step to take, as well as insight on how they make decisions.

SERVICES

Individual Coaching

Team Coaching

Other Services

INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Coaching in Business

Middle managers struggling with leadership and the demands placed on them by their superiors and subordinates.

People in a first time leadership or management position struggling to make the transition from being a worker and a peer to being the leader.

Owners and executives of small companies struggling to cope with the growth and change of their companies and all the decisions and challenges that brings

Coaching for Life Situations

Feeling overwhelmed with balancing work and life demands making different career choices or tough decisions.

Figuring out where you want to take your business or how to deal with an overwhelming workload or manage your time better.

Dealing with leadership situations or conflict with work colleagues or family members.

Coping with anxiety in different situations.

Building confidence.

Handling difficult conversations.

TEAM COACHING

Teams respond well to an opportunity to explore solutions together. I work with teams who:

 Would like to up their performance game

Need to integrate new members fast

Find a solution to conflict between members

OTHER SERVICES

Personalised Solution Focused 360 degree reviews

Personalised 360 degree reviews for individuals or teams. Using the Solution Focused style that I use for coaching, specific questions are compiled with the participants so that relevant input is gathered. Interviews are conducted and the results are collated, analysed, summarised and fed back in facilitated sessions with the team or individual.

Facilitation

Facilitation of sessions that require eliciting input from a group of people. Examples include project reviews, retrospectives, strategy workshops or business requirements gathering with clients.

Change Management

Assessing change readiness and co-creating change initiatives for management, teams and individuals. This helps to connect the people with the changes enabling them to make meaning of the change, and realise the benefits through employee adoption and usage.

Personalised Solution Focused 360 degree reviews

Personalised 360 degree reviews for individuals or teams. Using the Solution Focused style that I use for coaching, specific questions are compiled with the participants so that relevant input is gathered. Interviews are conducted and the results are collated, analysed, summarised and fed back in facilitated sessions with the team or individual.

Change Management

Assessing change readiness and co-creating change initiatives for management, teams and individuals. This helps to connect the people with the changes enabling them to make meaning of the change, and realise the benefits through employee adoption and usage.

Facilitation

Facilitation of sessions that require eliciting input from a group of people. Examples include project reviews, retrospectives, strategy workshops or business requirements gathering with clients.

TESTIMONIALS

What clients have to say about Coaching for Solutions

“Allison has helped me find solutions where I didn’t know how! Asking the right questions and listening attentively has allowed me to find very meaningful solutions. I am able to look at problems in different ways and she has helped me to focus and prioritise.”

Evert Trollip
Software Engineer

“For a number of years now I have used Allison as my coaching soundboard for work-related issues. I value her amazing ability to listen carefully, refrain from judgement and not let emotions get in the way. Furthermore, she is always forward-thinking and relentlessly focused on finding opportunities and positive outcomes in any set of circumstances. I highly recommend her in this capacity to anyone.”

Gert Rautenbach
Project manager/Scrum master at Old Mutual

“I was actually impressed by how clearly I could articulate my thoughts to you when they normally are such a jumbled mess in my mind… Since then I have been far more circumspect about what roles I apply for.”

HR Specialist looking to move to a new company

CONTACT ALLISON

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