Every Olympic athletic aspiring to a gold medal has a personal coach. In the same way executive and senior managers constantly need to review and fine-tune their leadership and communication skills. Bespoke Laser Thought Coaching is available on a one-to one basis. The programmes are highly flexible and tailored to meet your exact needs.

The first step is an assessment of the client's needs, skills and knowledge level. A learning plan is documented with a timeline and activities to achieve the desired changes and improvements in performance. Laser Thought™ Executive Coaching encompasses three different levels:

Management and Skills   |  Feedback  |  In-Depth Development

Management and Skills Coaching
You can choose as many sessions as you want in order to develop your confidence and skills to reach the required levels of performance. Areas for Management and Skill development include the following:

· Leadership · Negotiation · High Impact Project Management · Time Management and Stress · Motivating and Influencing People · Creativity and Innovation · Managing Productive Meetings · Team Building and Delegation

· Performance Appraisal and Goal Setting · Building Confidence and Self-Esteem · Managing Conflict · Implementing and Managing Change · Interpersonal Skills · Managing the Media · Voice and Body Language · Advanced Presentations

Feedback Coaching
This typically takes one to six months. It involves giving feedback to you and helping you create a development plan to address specific needs. It is accompanied by an assessment instrument such as a personal profile analysis which enables you to identify strengths and areas needing development. Follow-up conversations with you will take place either face-to-face or over the phone.

In-Depth Development Coaching
Development coaching typically takes six to twelve months. It involves a close relationship with you during an in-depth data collection and analysis phase. This normally involves conducting face-to-face interviews with all of your staff, peers and managers. Multiple assessment instruments may be used such as personal profile analysis, 360 competency assessment and Myers-Briggs. Frequently, the client will be observed (shadowed) at work in meetings, making presentations and so forth. The observation can be part of the date-collection phase development and feedback support.
A development phase is agreed and meetings will be held with you at least once a month for two to four hours to assess progress, discuss roadblocks and offer coaching support. This will continue until you have improved or achieved the targeted competencies.

Price
Sessions start from £200 - £400 depending on length and requirements.

Quotes from previous clients

“Julian Simmonds played a critical role as a catalyst in Away days at the Sydney Consulate-General and our Australasian Trade and Investment Conference. His sense of purpose and fun was infectious"
Tim Holmes
Consul-General & Director-General
Trade and Investment (Australia)

"The coaching provided to me, through Bechtel, by Julian Simmonds has been of great value to me on the business as well as the personal level. Julian, as a great teacher, has been very instrumental in making valuable observations and suggestions that have broadened my view of team working and performance based leadership. His coaching style on issues such as effective communication, self appraisal, performance feedback, and motivational techniques has been a welcome and valuable experience."
Amin Almuti
Engineering Manager and Vice President
Bechtel Infrastructure

"Julian Simmonds is world class in Executive Coaching. I say this as I spent the better part of a year working with Julian and the results speak for themselves! Through a very unique and thorough process, Julian quickly and thoroughly assessed my personal skills which resulted in a self awareness of my personal strengths and weaknesses. He then worked with me to develop a program to take advantage of my strengths plus work on my "lesser skills" to enable me to gain the most impact in both my business and personal relationships.
In hind sight this was a priceless program that I would highly recommend to not only executives but anyone that wants to continue to develop themselves and their ability to influence others in a more positive way...."
Jeff Rouser
Managing Director
DHA-Pangaea Services Division

"The project team coaching service that JS Consultants provides is essential for transforming a group of project participants into a high performance project team.
The difference is performance, productivity, and innovation in today's complex business environment. Julian has a remarkable ability to break down cultural barriers that may exist due to differences in regional, corporate, and individual perspectives and values. The result is a team that rallies around a common objective and willing to go the extra mile to help their fellow teammates."
Karen McCague
Senior Vice President of Operations
DHA-Pangaea Services Division