Leadership Coaching Cumbria

In today’s rapidly changing environment charity leaders are under constant pressure to create new and more effective and efficient ways of delivery, whilst having to secure ever-diminishing resources.

Life at the top can be tough at times and you can sometimes feel lonely.  Working with a coach can reduce your feeling of isolation and help you clarify and work towards your goals.  

Coaching can help you:

• Respond positively to change
• Improve a working relationship with staff, volunteers or trustees
• Improve specific skills
• Think strategically and develop plans
• Build confidence
• Address work/life balance issues
• Obtain a new job
• Explore career options

“Be the change you want to see” Ghandi

What is Coaching

Coaching is about exploring your present situation and designing your future.  It involves building a one-to-one relationship with a coach and meeting regularly over a period of time to focus on topics and challenges of your choice.

Coaching is a partnership in which the coach helps you to achieve your personal best and to produce the results that you want.  It is about empowering you to challenge yourself and helping you realise your potential.

Coaching:

• Focuses on what you want, your goals, & how you can achieve them.
• Encourages you to identify your values & how to live them in achieving your goals.
• Challenges limiting beliefs & reinforces positive ones
• Helps you to gain a new perspective & find options for moving forward
• Helps you to identify priorities & solutions.

A coach’s role is not to provide answers to specific problems. It is to work as a facilitator helping to raise awareness through analysis and reflection, and therefore enabling you to formulate your own ideas and solutions.

Coachees have reported a wide range of benefits of coaching and these include: a sense of being able to see more clearly by talking out loud, feeling empowered because they have come up with the way forward themselves, and most of all feeling valued because someone has taken the time to listen to them.

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got.” Mark Twain

About me

My name is Debra Jessett and I am passionate about providing coaching opportunities for the voluntary sector in Cumbria.  Over my working life, I have undertaken a variety of different roles but the common theme that connects them is the desire to help both individuals and groups reach their full potential.

With 28 years’ experience of working in the local Voluntary Sector, I understand the challenges that you face.  I have a background in training and development but also have experience as a Project Manager and Grants Officer.  

I provide comprehensive coaching opportunities for staff, volunteers and trustees.  For an informal chat please contact me by phone or email on: 07879050778 or         debra@apositivepartnership.co.uk