Cultivating Core Leadership
A programme for courageous and authentic leaders
Cultivating Core Leadership
In this programme we will explore how you can become fully, confidently present in your world – a beacon of calm in a busy environment. Modules available include:
- Leadership: Not just for Managers
- Own Your Place at the Table – What holds you back?
- Professional Identity – Who am I? What drives me? What am I known for?
- Developing Professional Networks
- Communication and Influencing Skills
- Options: Personal Effectiveness, Supervision, Managing Pressure – which do you need most?
You will develop clarity about who you are, the value you contribute, the difference you make.
Using the tools in this programme you will gain the confidence to step-up, to work with others and make change happen, for yourself, your team, your organisation. You will have the strength to be humble, to listen, to be vulnerable and still get the job done. At home, at work or at play, you will come to understand your strengths and to use them in ways that will genuinely get the results you want to see.
The tools and techniques we use will allow you to step forward with confidence in your own vision and your ability to contribute to the world around you. You will no longer play small or be the victim of a ruthless inner-critic.
Do you want more confidence in your leadership skills, to influence policy or implement change?
The programme has elements of teaching content vital to your development and self-awareness. There’s also the flexibility to focus on your individual development priorities and your personal or professional intentions for coaching.
This isn’t about becoming a “high-achieving clone” nor about pretending to be someone you’re not. I will be inviting you to grow, to expand your comfort zone and maybe even to explore skills and qualities you didn’t know you possessed. This is all about you learning how you want to be present in the world.
“I am getting work things done faster with greater motivation and lightness – get it done and move on. It’s an attitude and skill I have admired in others for a very long time but always felt at a loss as how to emulate/embody it.”
Who signs up for this programme?
All are welcome but many women who sign up for this programme often see themselves in one of these groups:
OVERACHIEVING: You’re doing a good impression of being superwoman, working hard, playing hard, getting results and blazing trails. Nobody can keep up with you. You can barely keep up. You’re so “switched on” you might find it difficult to switch off, slow down, relax – you’re seriously worried that you’re heading for burn-out or maybe you’ve already done your share of “crash and burn” on the corporate career ladder.
OVERSTRETCHED: You’re tired, overworked and stressed, uncertain, insecure. You may feel that you’re pretending, that you should know what you’re doing. The people around you probably think you’re doing a great job, performing well. You feel like you’re always playing “catch-up”, juggling roles in work and out of work, always too much to do and you’d like to feel as competent as other people seem to think you are.
OVERLOOKED: Perhaps you’re somewhere in between. You know you’re good enough at what you do and you want to get better, yet somehow you seem to be invisible. You feel caught in the gap. Taken for granted. Naturally quiet, when you finally find the courage to speak up you struggle to get people to hear your opinions and value them. It feels as if your contribution is being overlooked – and you want better.
“I think the biggest change for me is feeling more confident in line managing and feeling calmer when in large meetings with other managers.”
This programme provides tools to get you working more effectively, particularly as you advance into organisational roles with increasing managerial or leadership requirements. We explore how to deliver for the organisation while also experiencing more satisfaction and more fun in their personal life.
For years women have been promised that yes, they can have it all, yet still women encounter obstacles, sometimes navigating “politics”, as we walk the tightrope between the personal and professional. There may be fewer glass ceilings but barriers are still a real experience for many of us in work, even if we can’t quite put our finger on the problem and worry that it must be us…
Women are less likely to have mentors to guide them in the understanding of how organisations work, the ways to influence people, strategy development and even their own career planning. And women who rise to the challenge of leadership in any professional role are more likely to carry a significantly greater burden of care for children or for parents in comparison to men. Compared to our male peers, women experience higher rates of stress-related burn out and significantly worse mental health outcomes.
We won’t change these things if we simply carry on doing things the way they’ve always been done. We need to find a new way. The change we need will involve both empowering individual women and changing the structures within which we work. Are you ready?
“Work feels more relaxed. I feel like my direction is clear and stable. There has been a big shift in my being able to articulate – to myself and to others – who I am and what I do, and a deep feeling that I have a valuable contribution to make.”
We will explore how you want to show up as an authentic leader. In forming your vision for what you want to achieve it becomes easier to align your values with your strengths and to communicate these clearly.
Showing up authentically can feel really scary if you’re always feeling guilty that you’re not doing the job as well as you should – your inner critic is always present to remind you what you’re not doing, not to mention that you do know that you’re doing too much with too little energy
I have coached many women who wanted to hide away from the limelight unsure about the value they have to contribute! Together we learned that we are strong and resilient, we can be flexible and creative, confident and graced with humility, owning our power to change our corner of the world.
Many were sceptical that they could change the habits of a lifetime yet surprised themselves with the ease with which they made real changes to the way they showed up as quietly confident women, courageous leaders in their lives.
To change our world we need to step forward and be seen;
we need to recognise our own potential, to believe in who we are
and the gifts and strengths we bring to the world.
We need to develop our confident leader…
What does the programme look like?
We always begin with an introductory call to explore the fit of this programme for your needs and commitments.
There are three ways to experience this content:
- A one-to-one programme with supporting online content.
- A one day VIP intensive – for women who don’t have the time to wait.
- A group coaching programme with a combination of online content and group coaching. (Coming soon!)
Typically the programmes contains 12 modules delivered over 3 to 6 months as agreed at the outset. There will be integration opportunities between sessions and some flexibility to include a week off to fit around busy schedules.
We meet each week or two, using telephone or Zoom software for audio/video calls. Each call will address elements of teaching, introducing new content or ideas and space for individual personal coaching throughout the programme. The key ideas and activities may be supported through access to pdf or audio files containing additional information at key points.
In our opening sessions we build the foundations for our work together, uncovering your hidden drivers, deepest values and your intentions for our work together.
We explore why trying to be “Superwoman” doesn’t work. At best this supercharged energy gets stuff done, she is focussed and driven. At worst Superwoman is the best version of a man that a woman can be and she really doesn’t have an “off switch”. For most women that results in stress, frustration and burnout. It can be the reason that tempers flare, egos get bruised and relationships are broken.
Sometimes it helps to unhook from the relentless drive for unhelpful perfectionism, to understand why we are so inclined to say “yes” without thinking or become anxious at the thought of disappointing others.
We admit that sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. Particularly when we’re taken by surprise or experiencing a stressful situation. At these times we can find ourselves doing the things we hate most, whether that’s screeching at the children, snapping at a colleague or secretly scoffing a slice of chocolate cake – we sadly find we do that which we don’t want to do. To get out of this trap for we learn to recognise when our “buttons are being pushed” and make sure that we get the things we need to keep us in a really good mental, physical and emotional state.
To develop our strengths and flexibility in different situations we learn from five, strong archetype energies, using our intuitive knowledge of their energies to develop our own self-knowledge and self-confidence. We learn how to get results whilst staying in flow, building great relationships and caring for ourselves and those around us. We develop communication skills that really get our message across with a calm confidence and great presence.
We end our programme creating a plan for the year ahead and mastering the tools we need to make this happen.
And each and every week we work together you set yourself the challenge of doing something simply because you love it and deserve it!
When you complete this programme, you will hardly believe the changes you have made, with ease, while having a great time on the journey.
“This programme is changing my life, for the better.
I am amazed at how powerful the exercises are and I can’t quite believe the progress I am making.”
So what is your investment?
Your major investment is commitment – you need to decide that you are ready to change. This requires work. It may not feel like work but change will only happen to the degree with which you devote time and energy to engage with the content.
I will provide between 10 and 15 hours coaching time over a three to six month period. You will receive a personal Women’s PowerTypes profile assessment, supplementary resource files and powerful tools to facilitate growth and change. These will be yours for reference, long after the initial coaching period.
The financial investment you make for the programme will typically be £2,797 (payment plan available). The changes you experience will surprise and delight you as you really experience feelings of confidence and achievement, free-from that persistent inner-critic, no longer being driven to achieve more with less.
Do book a consultation call where we can discuss what best meets your needs.
“I feel more energetic and more positive about work, relationships and having a choice about how to deal with unhelpful people and feelings.
I value work and relationships more and I have a lot more fun.
Above all, I’m proud of myself. Truly.”
Margaret is a natural, she just gets it. She has helped me identify significant limiting beliefs and by utilising these tools, has helped me to release those one by one. I feel truly blessed to have the best of both, amazing course content and a naturally gifted and intelligent coach.