Six sessions to stop going round the same loop.
For mid-career people who are competent, reasonably successful, and quietly certain something needs to change. Coaching is forward-looking and practical — not therapy, and I will say so if what you need is the other thing.
Three situations, over and over.
The competent plateau
Good at the job, promoted appropriately, and increasingly unsure why any of it matters. The most common conversation.
Newly leading
Promoted into managing people, and finding that everything which made you good at the job no longer applies.
Deciding something big
Leaving, retraining, going out on your own, or finally admitting you do not want to.
A fixed arc, not an open subscription.
Six sessions, then it ends — The work has a shape and a stop, agreed before it starts, so it never drifts into an open-ended arrangement.
Forward-looking, not retrospective — Coaching works on what you want to do next and what is stopping you acting, not on why.
Referred on when it is not the right tool — If what you need is clinical support, that is said early, with somewhere to go.
Four things we might actually do.
Get specific
Name the actual problem, not the vague version you arrived with.
Widen the options
There are never really only two.
Test it cheaply
Try the smallest real version before you leap.
Check what moved
Honestly, against what you said you would do.
I expected to be told to follow my passion. Instead I was asked, repeatedly, what I would actually do on Monday.
Priya K.
Coaching client, PADDINGTON
Start with the free half hour.
No advice is given in it and nothing is sold at the end. Decide everything else afterwards.