This is not career counselling or ‘management therapy’.

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It is rigorous inquiry into your leadership practice.

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Many leaders have the ‘tools’; they have read books and been on courses. Fewer have the nous to use what they know when the context shifts. 

 

We don't decide what success looks like, you do. Sounds obvious? Not so much. We often hear about coaches and consultants who are so invested in their clients' success, they have lost sight of their role. Whatever you want from this process, you lead that, not us.

 

We work to some simple principles. 

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Role first, person second. This is not therapy or counselling: the context is organisations and work and the roles you take up there.

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The client-coach relationship is key – we establish clear boundaries from the start, and create the conditions for robust support, challenge, and holding to account.

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Every client is an individual – sounds obvious, and worth saying.

 

We don’t work to a cookie-cutter style or with a “one size fits all” approach. We use a variety of methods, models and approaches in response to you and your context. 

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We work from the perspective of the whole person - how you show up at work is not unrelated to how you are outside.  We support you to inquire into both presenting issues and underlying factors. This might mean challenging self-limiting beliefs whilst helping you amplify your strengths.

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Benefits go beyond the individual - if you change, then expect others to notice and respond. Your change does not happen in isolation, and neither does the impact.

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Change comes from within – we support deep learning by asking probing rather than polite questions. 

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We help you get comfy with mess, supporting you to be more at ease with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty: the soup of organisational life. 

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You want practical outputs and outcomes – we all about the ‘Now what?’, working with you on what is important and where you want to get to, supporting you to identify what you will do next, whether that is a small step or radical change.

 

Not all coaches and consultants are the same.

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Edge+Stretch offers a window into a rich, eclectic and diverse network of practitioners who can work with you in a variety of different ways. Some of us are gentle nudgers, others are guides, a number will provoke and disrupt and, crucially, none will shy away from challenging you appropriately. 

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That means we can offer people who meet you where you are at: We don't offer cookie cutter coaching or supervision. 

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Edge+Stretch founder Steve Hearsum is certified by the  Association for Professional Executive Coaches and Supervisors (APECS) as a Professional Executive Coach

 

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