Coaching - Perla Development

I hold a safe and creative space for you to explore your current reality and known thinking; to deepen your awareness and understanding, and to enable new thinking and alternative solutions to emerge.

As your coach, I support you to find a path forward that embraces any positive change or transformation you want to make, enabling you to move towards your desired outcomes for how you want to think, feel and be in the world.

Perhaps you have an expanded, or new, role or are moving from an SME role into leadership, or the C-suite, or are at a career inflection point? Navigating these transitions with coaching typically takes place through a series of in-person, or virtual sessions, working together through powerful dialogue, creative thinking exercises and reflective practices, in order to open the many doors through which to view your situation. Sometimes using pictures, objects, metaphor or brainstorm will allow deeper reflection and solution generation.

I help you to be clear on the intentions for the coaching at the outset or help to clarify these as the coaching progresses. You would experience me as a supportive challenger and success supporter! I’m known for my authenticity, calmness, encouraging nature and focus on positive change.

In support of your coaching journey, I might also use tools to help raise your awareness and readiness for change. Some examples have included: –

360-degree feedback reports
The Andiron Key Polarity Indicator™
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator – Step II
Korn Ferry 360

Coaching contracts are typically for 4, 6 or 10 sessions, or work on a ‘pay as you’ go basis. You’d be encouraged to track your progress and consider where you have come ‘from’ and ‘to’ at the end of our coaching time.

Liz worked with me to build my confidence in my abilities and to ultimately help me step out more in the workplace. As an introvert, I often found it uncomfortable to speak up in large meetings; this discomfort was compounded by my sense of imposter syndrome, and it was further amplified in the context of Zoom meetings. Liz worked closely with me and asked insightful questions to help me work out why I felt a sense of unease within these situations; our discussions and exercises involving the Key Polarity Indicator™ were particularly interesting and insightful. She also tailored my coaching exercises to suit my personality and preferences, to bring me insight into situations. I found the challenge-and-reflection exercises particularly helpful because I had to step out of my comfort zone to implement those challenges, and the reflection led to rich learning about how I and my colleagues responded to my steps out. Over the period of our 6 months working together, I grew in confidence greatly and overcame my sense of imposter syndrome; in fact, I subsequently applied for a promotion into management shortly after our time working together and I got the job!

Associate DirectorPhD, Bioinformatics

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise so I am changing myself”

Rumi

Over to you…

Are you stuck, or think you might need help to achieve a personal or career goal?
Would you like the opportunity to see how you can build on your strengths and create a new strategy for leading your team?
Have you just been promoted and would like some help to make this transition?
Are finding it hard to influence your peer group and stakeholders?

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