Leadership Coaching

Leadership
Coaching

One-to-one coaching is ideally suited to develop and retain high-potential leaders in your business. All programs are tailored to the individual coachee.

When is one-to-one coaching proven to be the most valuable to your business?

  • A high-potential leader preparing for expanded responsibility.
  • A recently promoted leader who needs to move beyond operational impact to demonstrate strategic thinking and decision making.
  • A technically strong leader who needs to strengthen executive presence and cross-functional influence.
  • A leader with a disengaged team who might need to work on engagement, EQ and communication skills.
  • A leader navigating complexity and stakeholder tension.
  • A high-potential manager or leader, disengaged by a perceived lack of career opportunity, who your business must retain.
  • A capable leader struggling with self-doubt or a lack of visibility, not showing up at their true potential.

Coaching helps your leaders develop themselves and their teams.

Being external, our one-to-one coaching services are a critical unbiased outlet for your leaders as they navigate significant complexity and change in a confidential, supportive and solution-orientated environment.

Leadership has become multi-faceted, with your leaders needing a more sophisticated style of adaptive, emotionally intelligent leadership to help your people remain engaged, motivated and connected to organisational objectives. Coaching helps your leaders develop themselves and their teams.

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Key Areas
of coaching

Our one-to-one coaching typically supports leaders in these key areas:

How you show up

  • Defining evolving leadership identity and how you want to ‘show up’
  • Building credibility and visibility
  • Self-awareness to work on blind spots
  • Overcoming confidence concerns
  • Managing up and across

How you think

  • Strategic, enterprise-level thinking and prioritisation
  • Decision making amid ambiguity
  • Delivering business value confidently

How you communicate

  • Communicating strategy and objectives
  • Cross-functional, relational influence
  • Emotional intelligence (EQ)
  • Interpersonal skills and managing conflict
  • Influential communication
  • Giving and receiving feedback

How you develop others

  • Team capability mapping
  • Coaching skills and team development
  • Encouraging psychological safety in balance with healthy challenge
  • Inclusion and fairness

Questions when considering
coaching for your leaders

When considering one-to-one coaching for one of your leaders, these questions might help you:

  • Which individual leader(s) do we want to develop and retain?
  • What are their ambitions?
  • What are their areas for development?
  • What budget have we allocated to this?

When you’re ready, book a Leadership Coaching call with us to discuss your brief.

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What the Research Says

  • Leadership coaching accelerates the capabilities that research consistently links to executive effectiveness: adaptability, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking and the capacity to lead through complexity.
  • A peer-reviewed meta-analysis of 3,563 leadership coaching pairs found the strongest gains were in cognitive and emotional outcomes, self-awareness and behavioural change. 
    Graßmann, C., et al. – Human Relations Journal (2019)

Frequently Asked Questions

Client
testimonials

  • I am stepping up into the authority my COO role requires

    I have just been promoted to COO for our APAC region. The work I am doing with Rebecca is helping me align my authentic leadrship objectives with my desire to step up into the authority that this role requires. My boss is really happy with how I have transitioned into the role and for the positive strategic and leadership changes I am making. I am getting so much from my coaching with Rebecca. I highly recommend you speak with her.
    Maree Myerscough
    COO, Aquila Capital

  • Taking back control of my career direction

    When you make the time for self-reflection and do the activities, you will soon gain fresh insights to help you be strategic and intentional about where you want to take your career. Rebecca is a consummate professional who will expertly coach you at every step, to build your momentum. I found it a wonderfully reaffirming process for taking back control of my career direction.
    Ro Coroneos
    Head of Responsible Sourcing, Lendlease

  • My staff now feel better engaged and motivated

    I would highly recommend Rebecca Allen, Illuminate Personal Growth to leaders looking to improve their communication skills and credibility of employees as they engage with both colleagues and clients alike. Rebecca helped me dig much deeper to understand the implications these issues were having on my ‘brand’. It became clear that my staff were not always experiencing the ‘brand’ that I wanted them to. I left each session with practical strategies to address this issue and as a result my staff now feel better engaged and motivated. I’ve found practical solutions that I have been able to apply straight away.
    Alexandra Zammit
    CEO, Thomas Holt