Coaching and Mentoring
Coaching and Mentoring is like having your own personal guide on your journey to success. Coaching helps you unlock your potential, set goals and navigate challenges. While through mentoring, I share my wisdom and experience to support your growth. Together, I provide the encouragement, insights and strategies you need to thrive in both your personal and professional life.
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The Benefits of Coaching and Mentoring

To the individual:
  • Preparation for role/career changes and joining a board as an Exec or Non-Exec
  • Methods of managing stress, change, conflict or crisis
  • Creative ways for looking at behaviour change and behavioural styles
  • Enhancing personal impact and performance
  • Identifying solutions to specific work-related issues
  • Increased openness to personal learning and development
  • Increased versatility
To the organisation:
  • Greater commitment and buy-in from directors and senior managers
  • Retaining talent and keeping staff engaged
  • More creative outlook in business planning
  • Improved management of other staff
  • Building positive relationships between people and departments
  • Facilitating the adoption of a new culture in your business
Is Coaching and Mentoring for Me?
Coaching and mentoring offers enormous benefits to both the organisation and the individual, however people often have concerns wondering if coaching and mentoring is worth the investment. It maybe career, promotion, a move into Portfolio work, or it maybe organisational and strategic business challenges that you wish to discuss.
Some key questions to ask yourself are:
  • Would individuals and the wider organisation benefit from improved employee’s performance? What would that look like?
  • If teams could establish greater awareness of themselves and also the dynamics of the team, would that have a positive impact within the organisation? How?
  • Are there skills and knowledge gaps within the organisation? Would addressing these gaps equate to improved business performance and opportunities?
Coaching and Mentoring works best when it:
  • Is used when there is a desire or a need for change
  • Is used to help drive culture change in an organisation
  • Helps individuals to address specific issues, behaviours or enhance their performance when taking on a particularly challenging work role or project
  • Provides professional and personal development that is particularly appropriate for those in senior positions who have little time and for whom being lonely at the top can be a common experience
  • Is driven by the needs of the client. It is about assisting people to achieve their full potential, with a focus on what they want to achieve now and in the future. It is a partnership between the executive coach and the client for a defined period of time

Coaching and Mentoring Programmes 

Individual Coaching and Mentoring
The outcomes of Coaching and Mentoring to an Individual with me are:

  • Enhanced Leadership Skills: Develop effective leadership styles and techniques tailored to your strengths and organisational needs, and refine communication skills for better team management, conflict resolution, and stakeholder engagement.

  • Strategic Thinking and Decision Making: Cultivate strategic thinking abilities to envision long-term goals and steer your organisation toward success. Develop frameworks for making well-informed decisions amidst complex challenges and uncertainty.

  • Personal and Professional Growth: Foster self-awareness and personal growth, empowering your as a leader to understand their motivations, values, and areas for improvement. Support your career advancement by honing skills, building confidence, and expanding professional networks.

  • Effective Change Management: Equip your with the leadership tools to navigate organisational change smoothly, fostering adaptability and resilience.

  • Improved Performance and Productivity: Identify barriers to performance and develop strategies for overcoming them, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Set measurable goals and benchmarks for tracking progress, ensuring continuous improvement.

  • Enhanced Emotional Intelligence: Develop emotional intelligence to better understand and manage emotions, fostering healthier workplace relationships and reducing conflicts. Promote empathy and active listening, leading to stronger connections with team members and stakeholders.

  • Effective Team Building and Collaboration: Provide tools and techniques for building high-performing teams, fostering collaboration, trust, and synergy, encouraging inclusive leadership practices that value diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organisation.

  • Stakeholder Engagement and Influence: Enhance the ability to influence and persuade your key stakeholders, whether internal or external, to garner support for organisational initiatives. Develop negotiation skills for achieving win-win outcomes in various business interactions.

  • Work-Life Balance and Well-being: Promote work-life balance strategies to prevent burnout and maintain overall well-being, leading to greater job satisfaction and retention. Encourage self-care practices and stress management techniques to sustain peak performance over the long term.

  • Measurable ROI and Organisational Impact: Measure the return on investment (ROI) of coaching and mentoring interventions through qualitative and quantitative assessments, demonstrating tangible benefits to the organisation.

Career Coaching
The outcomes of Career Coaching with me are:

  • Personalised guidance tailored to your career goals and aspirations.

  • Support in identifying and developing your strengths and skills.

  • Helping you to articulate your value to future employers, build a clearly defined ‘personal brand’ to take to market and assess your digital footprint.

  • Assistance in clarifying your career path and exploring new opportunities.

  • Strategies for enhancing your CV, cover letter, and job interview skills.

  • Accountability partner to keep you motivated and on track towards your objectives.

  • Assistance with career transitions, such as job changes or promotions.

  • Help in developing effective networking strategies and building professional relationships.

  • Support in achieving a healthy work-life balance and managing career-related stress.

Career Mentoring
The outcomes of Career Mentoring with me are:

  • Access to valuable insights and advice from someone with relevant industry experience.

  • Opportunities to learn from the successes and challenges of a seasoned professional.

  • Exploring self-employment, consultancy and non-executive appointments.

  • Creating a campaign strategy including CV refinement, ‘elevator pitches and LinkedIn profile optimisation.

  • Supporting you to plan and prepare to on-board successfully into your new role, accelerate your integration and ensure a successful transition.

  • Exploring self-employment, consultancy and non-executive appointments.

  • Guidance on navigating workplace dynamics and corporate culture.

  • Support in setting and achieving career milestones and long-term goals.

  • Networking opportunities and introductions to industry contacts.

  • Assistance in developing leadership skills and advancing your career.

  • Personalised feedback and constructive criticism to aid in your professional development.

  • A trusted confidant to turn to for advice and perspective on career-related decisions.

Testimonials 

What Other People Say

”
Karen is a talented Coach and working with her has been a very positive and rewarding experience. She gave me the time and space to explore my goals and identify my strengths. I found Karen’s warmth and honest approach was always motivating and empowering. She was a great support in helping me move forward with my career aspirations and in achieving my first Board position. I would highly recommend Karen if you are looking for career coaching.

Christine Roxburgh

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Wow! What an amazing few hours spent with Karen and fellow board members of Dress for Success Scotland last night. A start on a proper strategy for the organisation is probably the best thing that this group will have done in recent times. A real feeling of working together and ‘we can do this’ after the time spent digging a little deeper into who we are and where we’re going! Thank you Karen for helping us focus! Until the next time! 10/10

Isabel Mcnicoll

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Karen is a real inspiration to work with and thoroughly generous in her approach – together we’ve created a strategy map for my growing business, helping me shape my vision and key objectives going forward, identifying ‘5 bold steps’ to get there! Over two short workshops I’ve been able to make huge progress with Karen’s guiding hand. If you’re looking for a coach and business advisor that creates a warm, open setting to let the sparks fly, then Karen is the one for you!

Sabina Strachan

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I was looking to rethink my business strategy and had the privilege of working with Karen. She was able to expertly guide me to think through what was most important and to put a workable plan in place. Karen is a great listener and offers a range of insights that were invaluable. If you are looking at developing your business strategy I would thoroughly recommend Karen.

Rob Cooper

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Karen worked with us at Pinkston over a number of months to support through a period of change and development, including the formulation of a new and ambitious business plan. Her strategic input, support with policy development, role definition, and governance training has really helped to strengthen us as an organization.

Hannah Blair

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I have had a fantastic coach Karen Moore through InTouch Network and the timing and content was just perfect. Recognising my experience and capabilities early on, Karen adapted our sessions to be focused on practical know-how guidance, so I could quickly reshape and polish my profile & approach – just as I had re-started to seriously focus on non-exec portfolio. Result – My first Board of Trustee appointment, for an education trust in Manchester and coaching by Karen played a key role in this – from identifying the right roles for me to interview prep and thereafter! Thank you Karen!

Ani Kaprekar

Coaching Certification and Experience
  • Certified Executive Coach and Mentor through Edinburgh Coaching Academy and Ros Taylor Company
  • Accredited in tools including; SocialStyles & Versatility, Thomas PPA and Strengths Profiles
  • Trained in the Thinking Environment for Facilitation and the Thinking Partnership
  • Experienced C-Suite Executive, Non-Executive Director, Chair and Founder
  • Certified Renovo Associate Career Coach
What to Expect
My Coaching Programmes usually take place over 6-8 sessions and a session lasts for approximately 1.5-2 hours. Your first ‘get to know you and me’ session is free. Coaching and Mentoring can be online or face to face depending on your location and what meets your preferences. Everything is confidential and designed to ensure you feel safe, relaxed and can grow in success and confidence at your pace.
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