Tony Easton - One to One Executive Coaching
I work with those stepping up to leadership roles who need to redesign their approach to managing their time, reclaiming their proactivity and inspiring their staff to achieve excellent results.
Approach
My approach to executive coaching has developed over the years
from a highly structured transactional style (based on helping
the client identify specific goals for each session towards on
overarching objective agreed with the client's manager) to a more
transformational one which incorporates the former but goes deeper.
Using techniques from Gestalt and Cognitive Behavioural approaches
in particular, I tend to work with intelligent and successful
specialists who want to understand the models and theory behind the
move into leadership and what might be stopping them from stepping
up and committing. The net outcomes are always focused around
specific behavioural actions the client will take before the next
session, and I will often encourage him/her to experiment with
steps which are likely to take them outside their comfort zone.
Philosophy
There is no such thing as reality. The coachee will have his/her
own paradigm of their reality and I therefore tend to withhold
advice in favour of ' appreciative enquiry' and getting curious. If
my advice is sought, I will give it, but my philosophy is very much
in line with the coaching skills I teach, namely that a non
directive style is likely to help people come to their own
conclusions , make their own choices, hold themselves accountable,
and commit, succeed or fail, learn and build confidence.
I also believe in the Gestalt based idea that change tends to
happen automatically when we become acutely aware of the ' here and
now'. I will therefore drive for that awareness by sharing my
feedback about what I am experiencing in the moment as well as
drawing the coachees attention to what they are thinking, feeling
and sensing during our sessions.
Experience
My one to one executive coaching experience spans almost 10
years of working with members of the C suite and their reports in
various sectors including Engineering, Banking and Finance,
Pharmaceuticals, Publishing, Insurance and Energy.
Many clients work in global roles, and I have coached in Hong
Kong, Thailand, Poland, New York and Houston as well as in the
UK.
I have over 5,000 coaching hours experience , robust
accreditation, and ongoing commitment to professional development
as well as regular supervision.
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