We were approached by the Abu Dhabi campus of a prestigious international university who were looking for 1:1 executive coaching for a group of UAE nationals and expatriates. They were looking for career, personal and leadership development.

Over the course of 8 months, we delivered 12 coaching sessions to 12 employees. We tracked their progress over the course of the coaching engagements and we were delighted to see and hear the successes of these clients.

Here are some of the clients’ successes in their own words:

• My visibility and presence within the organization has dramatically increased.
• I’ve become more strategic and less hands-on.
• I’m achieving better results for the organization by holding more open and effective conversations with my stakeholders to understand what they really want.
• I’ve gained clarity about what is important to me and my role, allowing me to focus more and spend time on the most critical issues that will make the biggest positive impact.
• My confidence has increased to manage my team more effectively and I’ve gained increased resilience to tackle issues that I would normally put off.
• My critical thinking and decision-making skills have improved by viewing challenges from different perspectives.

We continue to support the university with on-going ad-hoc leadership coaching engagements, helping to drive a coaching culture and develop leadership capabilities.

We partnered with another talent development organization to co-design and deliver a modular “Coach for Performance” programme for a leading Middle East health insurance provider.

The key objective was to help build a coaching culture within the organization.

This was achieved through transferring coaching knowledge and developing key coaching skills for directors, managers and supervisors around their performance management cycle and for ongoing performance and feedback conversations.

• The programme incorporated pre and post module assignments and we faciltiated 4 one-day workshops. These incorporated theories on growth mindset, high-performance cultures, emotional intelligence as well as practical applications of coaching tools such as the TGROW model for coaching conversations and listening and questioning skills.
• Plenty of practice, using real coaching topics, was incorporated into the programme so that participants could quickly and easily transfer their new learning back into the workplace.

Participants demonstrated considerable improvement in their feedback, listening and questioning skills. The feedback from the participants was really encouraging; they reported increased confidence in handling difficult conversations with their team members, considerable gains in employee motivation and engagement and improved achievement of sales targets.

We have successfully delivered the Coach for Performance programme for the last 2 years and are working with the client to deliver this for the next cohort of participants.