helping leaders and teams thrive on purpose, develop their people, and achieve even greater impact... together!
Discover the power of coaching to surface game-changing insights, achieve breakthrough, and unlock lasting change.
Aimed at leaders with influence, we work in 6 or 12 month engagements to bring the support and challenge that only an external partner can offer. Through a high-trust alliance we celebrate what's working, identify opportunities for development, and build leadership capability for winning results.
External support to help your team:
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clarify the team task
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disrupt dysfunctional dynamics
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re-energise vision and unearth core values
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update ways of working for improved performance
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build trust, connection and more effective communication
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cultivate a culture of continuous improvement
Work with leadership experts to:
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better understand your leadership style
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develop new leadership capabilities
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push yourself out of your comfort zone with hands-on practice
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benefit from the support and challenge of your peers
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get fast-feedback about your quality of presence and impact of behaviour
Leadership Coaching
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'Step-back' from the urgent and revisit the 'Bigger Picture' ✔
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Gain a deeper awareness about what your context needs from you ✔
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Build confidence in your unique combination of strengths, style and story ✔
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Tune back in to core values and compelling purpose ✔
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Overcome limiting behaviour patterns, beliefs and blind-spots ✔
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Get fast feedback to accelerate self-awarenes and bring compassionate attention to what's holding you back ✔
Leadership Coaching
"The stronger the contract, the better the work."
1. Clarifying purpose and process - We begin by identifying what matters most, and the kind of partnership needed to achieve the desired outcomes.
"You don't understand a system until you try to change it."
3. Encourage exploration and experimentation - Learning happens through a continuous cycle of ACTION and REFLECTION - one without the other = no change.
"Effort needs a 'Why'"
2. Energise with vision: Throughout the coaching engagement we work to continuously enhance a 'HD picture of success' - a compelling vision of the desired future - to awaken the energy and commitment for change.
Challenging homeostasis... (or 'the status quo')
4. Stretching for Growth - Through a thinking partnership of high trust, curiosity, and creative collaboration, we identify the ‘learning edges’ that most need exploring to unlock learning, build capability and experience breakthrough.
Teams
"Great teams are about personalities who complement each other, who bring different strengths to the table and understand how to maximize those strengths together." – Daniel Coyle
1. Team Away Days
The teams we work with, work hard. They're highly committed to something they care about - and that's why it's all the more important to carve out time to STEP OUT of the busyness, to find fresh PERSPECTIVE, and to DISRUPT routines. These 'liminal spaces' open-up possibilities for new thinking, behaving and performing.
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We will partner with you to co-design a team away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you.
2. Team Launch
Well-known researches into Team Coaching have found that typically around 30% of a team's performance is determined by the quality of the team 'launch', when the right people, with the right skills, connect around a clear purpose, with the creativity to realise their ambitions.
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'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change.
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
We like to say that 'only highly connected teams create moments of magic under pressure'. Through team coaching workshops, we support teams to communicate better, coordinate their actions, focus their effort, and achieve greater impact.
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Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to optimize their ways of working and continuously improve.
Team Coaching
"Great teams are about personalities who complement each other, who bring different strengths to the table and understand how to maximize those strengths together." – Daniel Coyle
1. Team Away Days
The teams we work with, work hard. They're highly committed to something they care about - and that's why it's all the more important to carve out time to STEP OUT of the busyness, to find fresh PERSPECTIVE, and to DISRUPT routines. These 'liminal spaces' open-up possibilities for new thinking, behaving and performing.
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We will partner with you to co-design a team away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you.
2. Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
Well-known researches into Team Coaching have found that typically around 30% of a team's performance is determined by the quality of the team 'launch', when the right people, with the right skills, connect around a clear purpose, with the creativity to realise their ambitions.
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'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change.
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
We like to say that 'only highly connected teams create moments of magic under pressure'. Through team coaching workshops, we support teams to communicate better, coordinate their actions, focus their effort, and achieve greater impact.
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Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to optimize their ways of working and continuously improve.
Team Away Days
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For teams wanting to continuously improve performance ✔
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Enhance levels of connection, communication and understanding ✔
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Increased visibility on collective and individual roles and responsibilities ✔
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An opportunity for the team to be re-inspired by vision and purpose ✔
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Higher levels of engagement, responsibility-taking and accountability ✔
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Greater alignement around key goals, challenges and areas to focus effort and attention ✔
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Fun ✔
1. Team Away Days
We partner teams to co-design an away day that meets the unique needs of your team, at a location that suits you. The first step is to review what outcomes you're looking for, and then bring our energy and experience to create an inspiring and motivating shared experience.
Overview
Wherever the location, away-days are times to change the context, disrupt the routine, and find time to 'play'. Typically we partner leaders within the organisation to co-design a programme that creates time for fun, to encounter new ideas, to share stories and personal experiences, and to reflect on how these creative parts can be welcomed more fully into everyday life. Ultimately this will benefit the individuals, teams and wider organisation.
What we bring
As well as bringing decades of experience of working with teams and groups, and expertise with a number of tools, models and techniques to help people bond and grow, our 'input' is as much about holding space, creating the conditions for people to come alive, and noticing the energy of the group so that we can adapt in the moment to what's happening in real time. This often includes sharing our own vulnerabilities, stories of hope and inspiration, and anecdotes of things going wrong! It's making it safe to take risks, experiment, and 'unplugging' any fear of failure.
Outcomes
As anyone who's worked with us will testify, 'What does good look like?' has to be just about our favourite phrase! It'll be no surprise, therefore, that establishing a clear checklist of success is the first step of the proess. We then work with team leaders - providing additional coaching and support where necessary - to ace our 'right-sized' wish-list, and walk away celebrating what we've achieved together.
Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
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For teams that are forming, or re-forming, and want to set themselves up for success, by...
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Getting to know each other better ✔
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Understanding individual and collective strengths and weaknesses ✔
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Uniting around a shared vision of success ✔
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Taking collective responsibility for creating a high performance team culture ✔
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Celebrating diverse behaviour preferences, communication and leadership styles ✔
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Setting intentions for harnessing conflict and 'creative controversy' for better decision-making ✔
2. Team Launch / Re-launch / Reset
'Team Launches' are typically 1-3 day off-sites for teams forming, or reforming, or needing to adapt to significant change. The Team Launch is a vital opportunity to inspire with vision, to clarify purpose, and to co-create ways of working that can achieve the desired results.
1. Who are we, and what are our collective strengths?
Leadership expert Jim Collins says, 'First Who, Then What?' We believe that Clarifying The Team Task - why we exist, and how we serve the world - is a really important question; but to explore that most creatively, it helps to better see and hear one another in as much of our uniqueness as possible. As Steven Covey put it, 'Seek first to understand'. Through 'checking-in', showing up, using our voice, sharing our story, and owning our strengths and weaknesses, we create the conditions for a healthy, fruitful team.
2. Vision and Values
The more present we can be in the here and now, the better we can collaborate to co-create the future we want to see. Taking time to enhance a HD picture of success - a collective visualisation experience - provides the North Star that helps teams grow more aligned, inspired and energised.
"We are a vision-driven species... where our images go, our energy flows..."
3. "A dream, without a plan, is just a wish."
One of the reasons that teamwork is hard is that it requires holding the Creative Tension of different kinds of energy and concerns: moving between 'Big Picture' and detail; Innovating and Integrating; People and Profitability; Autonomy and Accountability... and the list goes on. Part of the coach's job is to help teams navigate these creative tensions, and grow more self-aware about their own biasses and preferences so that they can manage their collective behaviours (culture) more successfully over time. A good team launch / re-launch results in a high level of engagement with the aspirations, and how the team needs to work together to achieve those aspirations in practical, day to day rhythms and routines.
Creative Collaboration Workshops
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For teams whose next step is to optimize the conditions for creativity, innovation and experimentation, by...
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Transforming levels of trust and shared expectations ✔
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Learning to get the best from each other, even under pressure when default behaviours resurface ✔
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Enhancing the qaulity of listening to create deeper bonds of empathy, insight and understanding ✔
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Upgrading team meeting culture, systems, processes and routines ✔
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Evolving how feedback flows within the team for improved individual and team performance ✔
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Establishing a 'no blame culture' where people feel emboldened to take risks, learn, and take responsibility for continuous improvement ✔
3. Creative Collaboration Workshops
Creative Collaboration Workshops are team coaching sessions for teams that are 'on their way'. They support established teams to re-energise, re-focus, and optimize their ways of working to continuously improve strategy, learning and performance.
1. Living things grow
The mechanistic age pushed mental models into our thinking that don't help living things thrive: cogs, spanners, gas, clockwork, and well-oiled machines are not human. As living organisms we are more similar to - and connected with - the natural world: plants, trees, ant colonies, bees, starlings, forests, ecosystems... 'Creative Collaboration' better mirrors behaviours modelled by woodland, insects and birds in a 'murmaration'.
2. The free-flow of communication
In healthy systems, information flows; the more that relevant information is able to circulate through teams, threats can be avoided, decision-making is more robust, and changes can be adapted to more quickly. This is why many successful organisations in the modern age strive to adopt the practice of 'slowing down to speed up.'
3. "Creative Controversy"
We've all sat in boring meetings. Why are they boring? In my experience it's because people aren't saying what they really want to say - the moment that happens, things start to get interesting! Many books on leadership and teamwork talk about the importance of both trust and healthy conflict, psychological safety and candour. 'Creative Collaboration' exists in that space where there is enough safety to take meaningful risks.
4. Experimentation and fear of failure.
A well-known organisational psychologist used to say that can't really understand a system until you try to change it. This is why, with the best will in the world, so many strategies - and change programmes, in particular - fail to deliver lasting results. Once again we find that the path to health is through a creative tension of action and reflection, of theory and practice. 'Creative Collaboration' requires a discipline of making plans together 'off the pitch', but then going and putting them into practice to generate real world feedback.
Leadership Development
"The evidence is clear: If you want to change (develop / grow / evolve) your odds of success go up dramatically when you commit to changing as part of a group. Belief is essential, and it grows out of a communal experience, even if that community is only as large as two people." - Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
Designed for people responsible for leading, managing and developing others, the 'Coach To Lead' programme offers support and challenge, through a group experience, to energise and accelerate leadership development.
Bite-sized theory is combined with coaching demos, hands-on practice, and real-time feedback, to help leaders expand the skillset they need to unlock team potential.
An online community of purpose-driven pioneers who coach, get coached, and develop coaching skills to achieve greater mission-impact and leadership effectiveness.
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This community exists to serve mission-driven founders, social entrepreneurs, and senior leaders from the third sector or commercial ventures truly committed to creating positive social and environmental impact.
A unique opportunity to tune-into greater personal purpose, energy and effectiveness through a 12 month group coaching journey for people working to unlock meaningful change.
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This programme exists for people with a deep sense of mission, looking for creative ways to bring their purpose to life in the context of their everyday reality.
Coach To Lead
A group leadership development programme to help those responsible for leading and managing others to accelerate their learning through a facilitated group experience:
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Witness the power of coaching to accelerate growth ✔
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Develop confidence to succeed in your real-life leadership challenges ✔
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Build coaching skills to unlock the potential of your team ✔
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Get hands-on practice and fast feedback from supportive peers ✔
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Better understand the value and impact of different leadership strengths and styles ✔
1. Coach To Lead
The 'Coach To Lead' programme can be tweaked to fit the needs of your context, but is typically run by 2 coaches, for groups of 6 - 12, through 4 half-day sessions.
"Everyone has something to teach, and everyone has something to learn."
We begin by appreciating different leadership styles and behaviour preferences, and recognising that we are all naturally better - and worse - at different aspects of the coaching process. To build confidence we're going to need to risk leaving our comfort zones, share personalised learning goals, and make the group a safe space to practice.
'Freedom in a framework'
We are not aiming for a 'one size fits all' approach, but rather to build confidence by growing self-awareness about our natural strengths - those things that serve the coaching partnership well; and those areas where we need to build 'conscious competence' through deliberate practice.
Shifting focus from intention to impact.
Experience unlocks transformation - the Coach To Lead programme delivers opportunities to experience great coaching AND supports you to jump in and to have a go, encouraged by high-quality, compassionate feedback. We keep the theory light, and focus on practicing the different elements that create positive coaching outcomes.
Authentic.
Anchored.
Adaptable.
The agility to adapt your style to situational needs, whist staying connected to your authentic centre, is a hallmark of leadershp maturity. The Coach To Lead programme builds leadership capability by celebrating differences, and growing the range of leadership skills we're able to use effectively.
Partners In Purpose (Pip)
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Pip is an online peer coaching community equipping leaders and founders who are pursuing an inspiring vision with:
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A confidential space to think through your most pressing leadership challenges ✔
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Being part of like-minded tribe who are aligned in purpose, working in different contexts ✔
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A forum to develop personally and professionally through the support and stretch of peers ✔
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A chance to build coaching skills to unlock the potential of the people around you ✔
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The encouragement of 'Good News Stories' as we grow and succeed, together ✔
2. Partners In Purpose Coaching Circle
Partners In Purpose is more a peer community than a 'programme'. Through regular online meetings, and bi-annual face to face days, an inspired group of changemakers champion each others' growth and success, as we work with purpose to create impact we believe in.
1. Be Inspired
Gather with other mission-driven pioneers who are working to acheive meaningful change. In the coaching circle we share the highs and lows, the successes and the challenges, and support each other to find the best way forward.
3. Gain Vital Insights
We don't come to offer one another advice, but rather to hold the space, be present and curious, to listen and ask questions. In the conditions of trust, new insights are surfaced and alternative perspectives can be heard.
2. Step Out of 'The Weeds'
One of the biggest challenges most leaders have is making time to step back from the urgent and invest in the important. The discipline of meeting for coaching regurlarly makes time for reflection and accessing 'the helicopter view'.
4. Coach and be coached
Working for change can be tiring and lonely. The confidential nature of the coaching circle means it's a space to meet with kindred spirits, and be resourced.
A Year On Purpose
A 10 month group coaching journey to tune-into greater purpose, passion and impact, supported by a community of peers committed to meaningful change.
Why join us?
Harness the power of a small group to help you 'zoom in' to pupose, realign with values, and focus more effectively on what's within your sphere of influence to make the most positive impact. Drawing on a range of stories, tools and frameworks, we'll push oursevles beyond our comfort zones as we wrestle with the question: "are we truly living the life we want?" And daring to take responsiblity for doing our creative best with our own lives?
How it works
With a maximum of 12 participants, each session is energised by a provocative story, question and reflective activity. After a brief exploration, we'll break into smaller, confidential groups of three to coach and be coached through our personal responses and intentions for change, with coaching buddies to support your progress along the way.
When and where?
How to apply
The programme is online, and we meet on the first Monday of the month, 1-3pm (so that part of the time can fit into a lunch break - and on the first Monday of the month to help us start each month strong!) see dates below:
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1:1s before beginning and end
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Monday 7th October
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Monday 4th November
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Monday 2nd December
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Monday 6th January
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Monday 3rd February
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Monday 3rd March
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Monday 7th April
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Monday 5th May
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Monday 9th June
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Monday 7th July
If you'd like to take part, send a short email to will@withdiversity.com to say:
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- a cause that excites you
- a context where you'd like to see change
- one way you'd know the programme had been valuable for you
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The cost of the 10 month programme is 1000 (+ VAT)
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Get in touch to find out more.