Slow Coaching
Leadership & Team Coaching
in the Scottish Highlands
You are succeeding in the office, yet you know something is missing.
- Leading a team?
- Making difficult decisions?
- Using your systems for improved productivity?
Slow Coaching combines professional coaching with time outdoors to help you and your team slow down, think clearly and move forward with confidence.
Is this you?
- Maybe you’ve been promoted into ‘leadership’?
- Maybe work never seems to switch off.
- Maybe you are close to burnout?
- Maybe your team isn’t working as well as you’d hoped and planned for
- You might have lost confidence?
- It might be that you’re questioning what’s next?
- I am certain you will be involved in change.
- I am certain you feel constantly busy ‘doing leadership’ but what about ‘being a leader’?in the Scottish Highlands
Why outdoors in the Scottish Highlands?
This is where it might get awkward – if the above photos aren’t a reason enough, all having been taken by me in and around where I live in the Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highlands. If you need other ‘whys,’ then being outdoors means:
- conversations become easier because we move alongside each other.
- difficult topics feel less intense because of the increased physical space.
- creativity, quality planning and decision making increases.
- reflection, at an individual and team level, happens naturally.
- we stop performing and doing, and start thinking and being.
Why People opt for Slow Coaching
Senior Leadership Coaching
Confidence in Leadership
Whether you are newly promoted into ‘leadership’ or you have been leading for a while, slowing down and sense-checking who you are and why you have got where you are, can increase your confidence and confirm you are OK and doing things right.
Making Difficult Decisions
If being a senior leader was easy then everyone would be doing it. The higher you go the more impact you have, so it’s important to invest time and effort in working through the impact of your big decisions.
Building Stronger Teams
Team Selection & Induction
A wonderful CV, awesome in interview, you had a great dinner with them, and yet a few days in and the cracks start to appear in the ideal facade. Sound familiar?
A multiday session for potential candidates or newly selected appointees where you cook, eat and share communal areas removes the hiding places and helps both parties genuinely identify and consider fit.
Team Coaching
Everyone is delivering, achieving and surpassing objectives, yet you know that the regular meetings and 121s are not enabling those deeper connections and capacity?
Team coaching provides the space and time that create opportunities between your team members, making the whole so much greater than the sum of its parts.
Growth & Self-Awareness
Finding Direction
Professional growth only emerges from personal growth. To lead yourself, you need to know yourself, and to know yourself you need to stop doing and focus on being.
Even if you know where you are going, if you don’t know your starting point how do you navigate a journey of development?
Slow Coaching (ironically) is the fastest way to determine where you are.
Preventing Burnout
Experts in forestry and land management understand the value of fire breaks. Even when a wildfire rages across the land, they know a fire break will help maintain control.
Slow Coaching gives you the personal and professional equivalent that helps you to maintain control, even when the fire rages.