Board and Team Effectiveness
Coaching for Companies
Coach training and holistic coaching solutions for your organisation
Unlocking the coaching potential in your organisation
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Hi, I’m Karen Smart, Head of Consultancy here at the AoEC. And I’m happy to share with you today some of the ways in which we’re supporting organisations to use a coaching approach.
Increasingly today, life is complex. And that makes leadership ever more complex. One of the best ways to show up as a leader is to be one that’s self-aware, be capable, but also be willing to share our vulnerability. And that involves deep self-discovery. A coaching approach is a great way to achieve this.
Well, we’ve worked with many organizations over the last 10 years. And what we’ve learned is that coaching can be really helpful in many ways. So we know that it has an impact on retaining talent, and that it can help people to feel more engaged at work. A coaching approach can be really useful working at senior levels. And for example, team coaches can bring a lot of awareness to boards. And having better connections and better interpersonal relationships is really brilliant way to get improved board effectiveness.
We also use a coaching approach to help to promote well-being within the workforce, within teams. And that experience of being heard, of feeling heard is a real positive step in that direction.
And we also find that when we integrate our coaching approaches into what good work is already being done within an organization, that it can have an enhancing capability on top of whatever initiatives are already going on such as employee surveys or personal development plans.
The AoEC has four key areas where we can support with a coaching approach. One is, coaching as a line manager, we can help to upskill new line managers and help them to move from that functional expertise towards a management expertise use with a coaching style. We also help with executive coaching services drawing from our faculty and alumni. It may be that you want to develop your own coaching capability in-house and we can certainly help activate coaching in your organisation. We have plenty of experience with that. And we can also help board and team effectiveness.
Every engagement with each organisation starts with deep listening and a conversation that helps us to really understand what’s going to make a difference for you. We’d be delighted to have that conversation.
So if you follow the links in the video, you can find out more and book a time to talk to us. We look forward to it. Thank you.
Find out how we can partner with your organisation
Our expertise is to support coaching in companies
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We have partnered with more than 53 organisations, globally, across a wide range of industry sectors, including both private and public sectors.
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Supported 4 NHS Trusts to develop coaching skills for Line Managers and helped to implement the Coaching Through Covid programme.
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Served more than 10 Professional Services Organisations, including FTSE 100 organisations, global banks, Investment Management, Legal and leading Management Consultancy firms.
We have plenty of experience to share with you. A conversation would be a great starting point.
Organisations we have supported include:
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Meet the team
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Karen Smart Head of Consultancy Head of Consultancy
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Karen Smart Head of Consultancy
Karen is an ICF accredited and experienced executive coach, coach trainer, mentor coach, supervisor and faculty member for the AoEC. She is pivotal in building, connecting, and maintaining effective authentic relationships both internally and externally.
As AoEC Head of Consultancy, Karen is responsible for meeting all executive coaching needs for our organisation-based clients. She works with leaders and senior decision makers across all sectors including financial services, professional services, entertainment, not-for-profit, and the public sector.
Karen sits on the Senior Leadership Team feeding into the AoEC strategy and business objectives. In addition to this, she manages an internal team to seek out opportunities and serve clients effectively. Karen is accountable for the budget for the organisations part of the business.
Prior to joining the AoEC, Karen enjoyed a successful commercial career in the pharmaceutical industry, latterly holding a global responsibility for strategy implementation and launch preparedness for a billion-a-year dollar brand across forty-four different countries. Karen has a broad-based sales and marketing experience in a variety of settings, including a two-year stint as Strategic Planning and Market Research Manager in Mexico City.
In her spare time, Karen likes spending time with her family and three rescue dogs, staying fit and learning music
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Tracy Childs Customer Relationship Manager
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Tracy Childs
Tracy joined the AoEC in September 2019, following a 20 year career in the Financial Services Industry. Tracy has over 20 years experience in Account Management, most recently working with an Employee Benefits Consultancy company, delivering technology to support their clients. Tracy is really looking forward to supporting the Systemic Team Coaching programme. In her spare time, Tracy loves spending time with her family and friends, she has 3 children and a lively young labrador called Luna.
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Kim Wrighton Client Relationships Manager Client Relationship Executive
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Kim Wrighton Client Relationships Manager
Kim works with the organisations team managing processes, governance, projects, contract issuing and coach matching. She has come from the banking sector with the majority of her career in HR working for a FTSE 100 company. She has built on her coaching skills having qualified as an executive coach on the AoEC Practitioner Diploma, prior to joining the AoEC in 2019. She is known for her practical, logical and structured approach along with the ability to listen to what is needed to find a way of getting the best possible solution for all involved.
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Mark Powell Faculty Faculty
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Mark Powell Faculty
Seasoned leadership and performance consultant with a unique mix of experience – Australian with 19 years living and working across Asia; Corporate sector senior roles in Banking & Oil & Gas; Entrepreneur having started 4 businesses in 3 countries; Former International rugby referee; and strong supporter of diversity and inclusion. Mark works with senior regional and global leaders, and executive teams, helping them to transform themselves and their organisational performance. His portfolio includes C suite executive coaching, top team facilitation and supervision and development of other executive coaches. He joined the AoEC Asian faculty in 2017.
Our team of Coach Consultants exist to help organisations maximise your potential, overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals. You can read more about the team here.
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