PROFESSIONAL COACHING
What Your Shift is all about
Your Shift’s principle and belief is for time spent with clients to be a supportive, challenging yet time-bound interaction as opposed to a longer-term supportive, crutch. Why? Because I support clients at the very moment where their energy and commitment to change is at it’s highest – where they’ve just gone into their new role and have permission and focus to try new things. We work together during this time and thereafter it’s up to them to continue momentum and embed the shifts and changes they’ve worked through. This approach helps to drive urgency and accountability.
The environment I provide to do this is supportive, creative and fun. Coaching sessions should never just be ‘another meeting in the calendar’ and my approach and energies reflect this.
The inspiration behind it all
I enjoyed a successful career in the advertising industry, helping to run large national and international agencies to deliver work across a variety of clients, sectors and specialisms. As a client leader, my role was all about building relationships, identifying what’s important and then making that happen. I’m fascinated by how people work and passionate about how they achieve their ambitions – and draw great energy and satisfaction from helping them to achieve those.
My Journey to Leadership and Coaching
In addition – and more personally – I experienced first-hand the journey it took to make big professional shifts a reality – the most challenging of which for me was becoming a leader for the first time. This process took time, energy, belief, an open mind, resilience, bravery and so much more. I came to see that moving from a position of control to a place of influence is tough and having time, space and challenge to mould what works best for you is crucial time well spent.
And it was this experience and inspiration which drew me to move fully into coaching and to develop my own consultancy to support people in getting where they want, in a way that’s right for them, and to set them up for success for those moments that matter. For now and the future. I now work with businesses to support their people make these shifts – across a range of different sectors.
To find out more about how I can help you or your team, you can schedule a free, 30-minute initial conversation
You can also reach me via email at steve@makeyourshift.co.uk or by calling me on +44 796 7105 333.
