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Coaching and executive development

Coaching from EPI Associates provides a unique, practical and confidential setting to work on the most taxing aspects of leadership. We can provide a tailored coaching programme to individuals to focus on work-related issues. Leadership roles are becoming increasingly complex and demanding on the individual, coaching can help an individual work more effectively with key relationships, tasks and work pressures.

Coaching provides opportunities to gain fresh perspectives, options and resolve. It provides time to think, be challenged and get relevant professional support and development. Individuals use coaching for a variety of issues: taking on a new role, dealing with ‘difficult’ colleagues, working with teams, preparing or managing change, getting tailored professional development, thinking through complex issues and judgements.

Coaching: How it works

We will arrange an assessment meeting either by telephone or face to face to determine the purpose of the coaching, expectation and the suitability of what we can offer. The number of sessions are mutually agreed but usually between 2 and 3 sessions are needed to get established and address initial issues. Sessions last about 2 hours each. In practice if the coaching relationship works well clients typically continue with sessions over a period of 12 to 18 months.

We can support the coaching sessions with a variety of diagnostic and self-assessment tools including MBTI and FIRO-B, to help individuals to gain insights into their own working approach.

Peer learning and learning sets

We have used peer learning groups (learning sets) over many years as a very successful means of executive and professional development. Sets can be single or multi disciplinary, issue or programme based. They complement individual coaching and can provide a sustained source of support and learning over many months or years.
Aimed at:

Senior managers and Professional Leaders

Senior Partners in General Practice

Clinical Directors, Medical Directors, Directors of Public Health

Expected Outcomes

Improved effectiveness, reduced stress

Career development

Identification and work on development needs

Get prepared for a new job

More quickly established and effective in a new leadership role

Support in working with ‘difficult’ colleagues and teams

Fresh focus and resolve in complex situations at work

Extend range of options and approaches to deal with leadership challenges

Coaching for a newly appointed Medical Director

A newly appointed medical director of a district general hospital was looking for support to make the transition to the new role. Read more…

Coaching and career support for Operations Director

Having completed a senior manager leadership programme this operations director wanted to move to a more challenging role. Read more…

Coaching for a stressed Teaching Hospital Clinical Director

The frustration with pressure and demands on busy clinical and research workload were making life difficult for a newly appointed clinical director. Read more…

Communications directors
learning set

A group of busy, pressured communications directors were looking for an opportunity to network and gain access to professional development. Read more…

‘It has made a huge difference: how to approach the role, fitted CD role into working life (would have driven myself mad). A lot of senior clinicians would benefit from this way of working. Very practical, the most useful thing I have done.’
Clinical director

‘Looking back coaching helped me get established quickly, which was critical in this job. We have also worked on the areas of the role that I have found most stressful. Being able to talk through problems has been very helpful, I have been able to explore problems from different angles and then use relevant frameworks that help with how I might approach problems more constructively.’
Medical director

‘It helped me keep up the pace after the formal programme finished’
Operations director

‘The set has given us a unique setting for focused peer support and challenge on really pressing issues that is just not possible with colleagues in our own organisations’.
Set member

To find out more
or to discuss your
needs, please contact
Janice Quested
PA and Office Manager

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01268 780086

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07762 889474

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janice@epiassociates.com