Executive coaching

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Kiddy & Partners

Coaching encourages leaders to think about things from a different angle, beyond their comfort zone and point of reference, to identify ways in which to solve problems and help organisations to transform.

Our executive coaching services provide objective insights, ideas, and the right level of challenge. Our coaches have years of experience in business psychology and coaching leaders across a wide range of sectors. They have often led organisations, functions and leadership teams through economic ups and downs, acquisitions, mergers and organisational change. They offer insights and real-life thinking to help coachees work through opportunities and challenges faced. They challenge, ask the difficult questions and get to the crux of the context to achieve optimal results.

What do we do? 

Regardless of who we are working with (an individual, leader, or team) we follow the same fundamental approach. We want to ensure that all our coaching support makes the maximum contribution to improving performance, so that individuals (and the clients) get the best possible return on their investment. 

Integral to our work is agreeing the vital few goals that the coachee or team brings to the coaching conversation. This forms the basis of ongoing coaching sessions and the focus for the future. 

A typical executive coaching programme includes:

  • a chemistry session between the coachee and two potential coaches will be held to find the best fit;
  • diagnostic assessments (typically psychometrics and 360-degree feedback);
  •  initial objective setting session, using data from the diagnostic assessments;
  •  four 1-2-1 coaching sessions;
  • final coaching session with agreement to an ongoing development plan and evaluation.

Why does it work?

Coaching is primarily about change – the focus is on outcomes and finding energy for action. Our coaching approach works because:

  • the conversation may be reflective, but with purpose;
  • we ensure the coachee is in the best position to identify new solutions and strategies;
  • the coachee sets the agenda;
  • coaching primarily has a work focus but touches on ‘whole life’ issues at an appropriate level if they are relevant to the work goals;
  • goals are agreed in a three-way conversation with the coachee, the sponsor manager (usually the line manager) and the coach. Progress is reviewed by the three parties together.

Our executive coaching programmes provide results-focused interventions which help coachees plan, lead and implement successful change and performance improvement.