Leadership Development and Team Coaching
Why leadership development matters
Organisations and businesses constantly need to navigate change, ranging from managing the expectations of stakeholders and multi-generational workforces, to responding to the increasing speed and complexity of the business environment.
Effective leaders are expected to be able to enact meaningful change, build partnerships, embrace AI, strengthen company culture and establish common goals, all while developing strategies that achieve positive business outcomes.
Leadership training is therefore a critical factor in both leaders and organisations being able to reach their full potential.
Coaching and support for senior leaders and management
At Compass Coaching Group, my work connects strategy, team dynamics, leadership and processes so that organisations can strengthen both business outcomes and the performance of individual team members.
I partner with businesses to create confident, capable leaders through the development of practical leadership and capability programs. Effective leaders are also able to deliver greater accountability and enhanced team performance.
In addition, I support leadership teams to align strategy, structure and ways of working as a means of improving collaboration, culture, team effectiveness and business performance, thereby creating organisations that are fit for purpose.
My approach to leadership
My approach recognises that leadership, company culture, structure, capability and whole team performance are interconnected, and understanding that issues with individual team members often have wide-ranging consequences.
Rather than adopting generic programs, I take the time to get to know the context of your business and people, and understand your unique context so that I can co-design solutions that deliver meaningful and lasting results.
I have more than 30 years’ corporate experience across Australia, The Netherlands, UK, France, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and China. I partner with HR leaders, executives and people managers to solve people and performance challenges, and using Compass Coaching Group's bespoke Capability Approach™ I ensure every coaching and training program is tailored to your organisation's unique goals, challenges, resources and aspirations.
What is leadership development?
Effective leadership isn't about always being able to solve problems and provide answers. It's much more about creating an environment that promotes inclusivity, leverages each team member’s strengths, and incorporates reflective practices so that the whole team can flourish and perform at its best.
This means that leaders need the clarity and self-awareness to build trust, navigate difficult conversations, lead people through change and create accountability.
Compass Coaching Group partners with businesses and organisations to create leadership development programs that are practical, thought-provoking and tailored to your unique context. Whether you're developing new leaders, building the capacity of experienced managers or providing additional support for executive teams, all of our coaching is designed to build capability that lasts long after the workshop ends.
Genuinely effective, high performance leadership can't be learned in a day. It needs to be developed through a process of ongoing learning and reflection, plus feedback combined with training and real world experience. In turn, organisations that focus on leadership development are likely to enjoy significantly higher levels of employee retention.
'Find Your Compass'
Leadership Program
Ask about our flagship program — Find Your Compass Leadership Program — designed for leaders wanting to create high performing teams that go above and beyond, and have fun doing it.
This is an invaluable program because sustainable organisation performance is created by leaders who know themselves first.
Developing a team coaching approach
Our team coaching programs can be designed to run alongside leadership development.
Leadership team group coaching focuses on creating an environment where leadership teams can reflect, learn and raise awareness of their own and each others' strengths and weaknesses alongside their peers. By combining practical tools with reflective practice, team coaching participants develop the vision, communication skills and capacity to lead their teams more effectively and make a greater contribution to your organisation's high performance.
Compass Coaching Group team coaching focuses on diagnosing four interdependent capability areas that build exceptional performance and a culture aligned to the organisation's purpose and values.
Compass Coaching Group Team Capability Diagnostic™
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Every team has distinctive strengths that it can build on, as well as weaknesses that may be limiting its effectiveness. Before creating a team coaching program, I work with you to develop an appreciation of current team performance in order to identify skill and learning needs.
This phase may include:
Team diagnostics and assessments
Individual stakeholder conversations
Leadership interviews
Observation of team meetings
Identifying strengths, challenges and opportunities
Understanding culture, communication and trust
Proactively designing the team and setting the team up for success
This process will give me an understanding of current team dynamics and the many different factors influencing performance.
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High performing teams and their leaders share a common understanding of the why and how they want to work together, as well as what they need to do in order to work effectively and achieve their shared purpose.
Together we'll explore:
Team purpose
Shared vision
Values and behavioural expectations
Emotions and psychological safety
Team agreements
Roles and responsibilities
Measures of success
This creates a clear vision and direction of travel that enables leadership teams to progress on their journey feeling confident and aligned.
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This is the stage of the team development process where coaching becomes transformational.
Team coaching sessions are tailored to specific goals and needs, and may focus on:
Optimising processes
Enhancing trust and connection
Equipping leaders to manage healthy conflict and having REAL™ conversations to navigate any situation
Agreeing what collaboration is and is not
Enhancing decision making
Ensuring clear accountability
Further building emotional intelligence and resilience in individuals and teams
Understanding the leader’s role in times of navigating change
Collective problem solving
The result is a stronger, more connected team that has the practical tools, skills, strategies and knowledge to perform at its best.
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Real change happens between coaching sessions, and this phase of the program focuses on embedding new ways of thinking and working for leadership teams through:
Reflection and review
Ongoing coaching conversations
Leadership support
Accountability structures
Team check-ins
Progress measurement
Celebrating success and learning
This produces measurable, sustainable improvements in team performance, culture, effectiveness and wellbeing.
Benefits of leadership development and team coaching programs
Clients have shared with me a range of improvements they have experienced regarding the effectiveness of their leadership teams and overall team development:
Greater trust and psychological safety
Understanding and harnessing the strengths of the multiple generations in the team
Enhanced cross cultural communication
Stronger collaboration
Better decision making
Increased accountability
More constructive conversations, minimising conflict
Higher engagement
Improved performance
Focused, prioritised delivery of the things that matter
Greater resilience during change
All Compass Coaching Group programs are customised to your organisation's goals, challenges and people. Get in touch to talk about what success looks like for your leaders.
Leadership development and team coaching FAQs
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Experiential learning involves assigning employees with leadership potential who may not yet be in a management or executive role to lead a project or team.
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The coaching and mentoring process involves pairing emerging leaders with experienced mentors to support their learning and training.
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360-degree feedback requires confidential feedback to be gathered from all the members of a team (not just leaders or executives) in order to create individual leadership development plans.
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When senior leaders are engaged (either in person or online) with coaching, it can significantly increase overall program engagement and learning.
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Compass Coaching Group team coaching programs typically last for between 6 to 9 months, although the duration and number of seasons can be tailored to meet your business' specific needs, goals, resources and circumstances.
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Current research by The Centre for Creative Leadership estimates that two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies use external team coaching services, while 70 percent provide leaders with executive coaching services.