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• Yours is a 12+ hour day and you’re always on the go
• Putting out fires, meeting deadlines and managing resources demands your high level of energy and on-the-spot decision making skills
As your coaching partner, Michelle considers your professional success equally important to your personal well-being. She acts as your external observer, quickly learning the language of your world and helping you to develop perspective. Together, coach and client create a quality thinking space where practical and streamlined strategies are co-designed to help you to enhance and balance your personal and professional needs.
Michelle Clarke’s Success Stories
Kevin, 35, the Operations Exeutive of an international supply chain organization contacted me regarding executive coaching as part of his personal development plan. A goal-driven high achiever, his career had been a record of accelerated promotions. What he aspired to most was a seat on the organizational board but his efforts seemed thwarted by an old-economy culture which he felt judged his innovative leadership style as youthful and risqué. Kevin wanted a coach to help him to develop a broader repertoire of leadership skills and to enhance and more effectively promote his authentic leadership. He wanted to gain the trust of the board through demonstrating maturity coupled with innovation. By the end of the 6-month coaching intervention Kevin was a regular stand-in at board meetings with board members engaging him to share his ideas. Feedback from his team suggested a new depth of respect for his situational leadership, passion and authenticity. Six months after termination of the coaching intervention Kevin telephoned me to share that he had been promoted to full board member.
When I met, Johan, 54, a Senior IT Professional at a Financial Services multi-national, he was frustrated and self-doubting. For several months prior to our meeting, Johan had been an unwilling key player in an unavoidable organisation conflict with his senior manager. Johan wanted to re-assess his values, strengths and leadership skills. He also wanted to re-engineer his brand and reputation within the organization. Most importantly, he wanted to re-build important relationships with the executive team. As a long-time Marshal Arts Master and mentor to young upcoming karate students, Johan and I looked to explore his eastern wisdom and developed ways to bring this respectful philosophy into his workspace. Mid-way through our coaching intervention Johan was given an affirmation of his efforts - the department re-structured placing him back into a pivotal leadership role. At the end of our time together, Johan’s team was performing to a very high level (like “intelligent warriors”, the feedback said), and his reputation as a wise and knowledgeable leader was again intact.
Zerina, 46, the Head of Well-Being for a large TeleCommunications concern, had a history of service excellence behind her. Her staff and colleagues had always respected her commitment to her work. So it came as shock to her when her Senior manager suggested that she did not appear 100% committed. She confessed to me at our first meeting that not only was she was dealing with and largely preoccupied with challenges in her personal life, but also under pressure to complete her MBA. She knew she had withdrawn her focus from work, hoping that it would all just ‘carry on as usual’. Zerina wanted a coach to help her to gain perspective, re-assess her values and prioritize her time. She wanted to learn to effectively delegate – not only professionally but also personally – empowering others to help her. At the end of our coaching intervention, Zerina offered me the following feedback, “I am calmer. I am enthusiastic again and this is such a joy! It has been self-empowering to re-assess myself and my world. I recognise my strengths and I see the way to bring these to the fore to re-ignite my consistent performance.”
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To see project-specific details of work that Michelle has done in this sector, view her CV . To see what these clients have to say about her work, visit the Happy Clients Page
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