Professional Coaching

Goldcrest Partners coach ExCo members, leaders of regional or functional teams, senior individual contributors and those who aspire to these roles. All are engagements are specifically tailored to the individual and can range from ‘pure’ ICF competency-based coaching to mentoring as best matches the client and the coaching objectives.

Most engagements include elements of both leadership and performance coaching (as described here) along with personal coaching. We coach the whole person because the whole person goes to work. We simply focus on the different areas in the proportion and sequence that supports the individual and enables progress.

Leadership coaching

The skillset of a people leader is profoundly different to that of an individual contributor and in financial services many people are promoted into people leadership roles with limited focus on the new competencies necessary to lead people well.

At Goldcrest Partners we believe that the capabilities necessary to lead well deserve the same effort and attention as was invested in becoming a subject matter expert.

Goldcrest coaches borrow from our expertise in leadership development, alongside their own experience ‘in-role‘, to bring a deep understanding of what is required to succeed into coaching assignments. Goldcrest coaches also draw on our profiling and assessment know-how, including our proprietary range of role specific competency frameworks to enable great clarity of the direction of travel.

We work across the C-suite and with those aspiring to these roles. We articulate our understanding of each CXO role through our series of specialised coaching frameworks:

Performance coaching

However good we are at something is always room to improve.

Goldcrest performance coaches combine leading edge techniques and tools with their own experience ‘in-role‘, to bring transformational and practical approaches into coaching assignments to fulfil performance potential. We are the people we wish we had by our side when we were in your shoes!

We work primarily with investors, analysts, traders, bankers, underwriters and salespeople. We articulate our understanding of performance roles through our series of specialised coaching frameworks:

Illustrative coaching process

Initial call

Call with organisational sponsor to understand the context and establish provisional coaching topics to help identify which coaches might be a suitable match.

Preparation

Chemistry sessions between the proposed coaches and coachee to establish fit. Post coach selection meeting with coach, sponsor / line manager to establish organisational, team and individual goals.

Phase 1

Focus on building rapport, setting goals with psychometric assessment and other relevant profiling surveys and optional round of confidential 360 feedback with key stakeholders.

Phase 2

Design of an individual development plan to enable focus on the priority coaching topics and then working through a series of iterative learning cycles to achieve goals.

Review

De-brief and evaluation of next steps with sponsor / line manager.