Thriving & high performing
Hi! I’m Karen and I work with managers and leaders who recognise great leadership and teamworking are critical for high performance and success.
I help managers and leaders in leading others to thrive and perform at their best.
And I help teams to be more cohesive and focused to enhance successes.
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Keeping conflict collaborative
Many managers and leaders are dealing with conflict every day. This free resource enhances the range of strategies you can draw on for dealing with conflict in a way that enhances cohesion, collaboration and problem-solving.
For managers and leaders
Leadership can feel frustrating and lonely at times. What worked yesterday is no longer working today. Managers and leaders need to be constantly evolving to keep up with changing attitudes and challenges the organisation’s facing. The wider system is complex, messy and dynamic. The context is nuanced. The pressure to be in action mode is high.
Prioritising a regular time to think brings balance to action. Creating regular time to think enables us to be strategic. Taking a helicopter view and considering the wider system helps with navigating complexity, change and transitions. It enables us to connect with what’s important, to reflect on the how rather (than the what) and to see more of the bigger picture. As you think about the issues in front of you would you like to…
- gain new insights
- reduce blind spots
- develop strategies
- enhance your leadership capabilities
- identify innovative solutions to problems
- feel more energised?
We’re here to support you, through individual coaching and group coaching, with high quality time to think as you navigate the challenges you’re facing.
What clients say
“Karen’s unique coaching style, mainly through mindset curiosity and exploration of thinking, has kept me grounded in preparation for an executive director’s role. My sessions with Karen are both motivational and very inspiring, highlighting her profound commitment to developing outstanding leaders. “
Adeboye Ifederu
Deputy Chief of Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital
“I have benefitted immensely from coaching in the last six months. Coaching has helped me find my way around a very complex situation that I found myself in and a transition period in my job and career. Coaching has helped me to be able to make those decisions to move forward and disentangle myself from the situation.”
Manager
“Karen’s coaching came at the right time for me as I was deciding where to go to next in my career. I have just moved into a job that I never dreamt could happen when I was starting out as a student nurse all those years ago. Karen’s coaching helped me to realise my potential, get the monkey off my shoulder and to know that we all get imposter syndrome and the success is about how to manage it.”
Angela Star
Interim Exec Director of Nursing and Quality
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For teams
There’s so much for a team to deal with in addition to the ‘day job’. Change, workload pressures, tight timelines, staffing shortages, hybrid working, team members leaving and joining. The list goes on. Over time these challenges can lead to low level conflict and under-performance. There’s a sense that the team could achieve more and somehow is stuck with mediocre performance. There’s an appetite for the team to be more than the sum of its parts, but how?
By regularly paying attention to team effectiveness a team can ensure cohesiveness, wellbeing and resilience is consistently high. And when these are high innovation, mutual support and constructive feedback are high. Then performance and adapting to change improves. The team is now so much more than the sum of its individual members. The team is thriving, innovating and flying.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb
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