EXECUTIVE COACHING

Inspiring coaching to unlock your potential and improve business performance


EXECUTIVE COACHING

Empowering Change

When it comes to maximising your leadership and personal effectiveness, is there a magic formula? Why isn’t it the same for everyone? Would you like to discover your unique road map for maximising your performance, impact and satisfaction? Would you like to know where you’re blindsided and how to unlock your hidden potential?

In an Executive Coaching program with Andrew Hughes you’ll discover, perhaps for the first time, how and why it is you feel compelled to behave the way you do. You’ll begin to understand that your behaviours are predictable by reason of the nature and underlying structure of your personality. You’ll become aware of the warning signs that you’re becoming reactive to psychological stimuli and learn how to break that cycle. You’ll identify your self created road blocks, discover how you’re really perceived by others, and change your habits (the biggest obstacles to your success).

Empowering Change

Leaders set the tone for organisations and the limits of their success through how they relate to themselves and others. Those habits of relating are determined by the weight of their opinions and attitudes, all of which are underscored and predicted by their personality style. To ignore personality in leadership, team work, coaching or training is to ignore the elephant in the room.

Our Coaching Techniques

The coaching programs use Andrew Hughes’ expertise developed as a Clinical Practitioner of NLP and other tools grounded in Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology to produce rapid and fundamental change in outlook and behaviours. When combined with the Enneagram, these techniques allow the client to become aware of the causes of ineffective and disempowering patterns before making rapid shifts in perspective. These shifts can go to the very core of personality and enable the client to begin bringing the key strengths of their personality type to conscious awareness.

LINGUISTIC PATTERNS: Insights into perspective, motivation and blind spots are obtained through understanding language patterns. Using tools such as the Meta Model, Hierarchy of Ideas, the Milton Model and Cartesian logic, clients are made aware of and then challenged to face their underlying assumptions, beliefs and perspectives at the core of their behaviours.

PARTS INTEGRATION: This is a process to collapse internal conflicts that are in the way of development and leadership effectiveness. For example, a Three who has a laser focus on goals and achievement may be burning themselves out or destroying relationships through their competitiveness. However, they may experience strong resistance to change because they perceive they will be worthless if they slow down. A parts integration would allow this conflict to be resolved and a more effective strategy to be developed.

EMOTIONAL RELEASE: As the Enneagram makes clear, all personality strategies have an emotional beginning, articulated in the Enneagram through concepts such as the Basic Fear, Basic Desire, Passion and Fixation. While awareness of these concepts is helpful, emotionally triggered patterns.

HEART COHERENCE: While it is widely understood that brain coherence is correlated with high performance and enhanced leadership capabilities, what has only recently been discovered is that heart coherence is the major contributor to brain coherence. That is, the electromagnetic signals sent from the heart to the brain are overwhelmingly responsible for bringing the brain into balance and creating the flow states associated with high performance. The most recent research on insight has revealed it comes in the form of gamma frequency brain activity, again triggered by a conscious hearty awareness process.

These techniques underpin the shift in perspective, consequent development of strategies and actions agreed with the client to improve performance, improve relationships, resolve conflict and achieve agreed outcomes.

The coaching programs use Andrew Hughes’ expertise developed as a Clinical Practitioner of NLP and other tools grounded in Humanistic and Cognitive Psychology to produce rapid and fundamental change in outlook and behaviours. When combined with the Enneagram, these techniques allow the client to become aware of the causes of ineffective and disempowering patterns before making rapid shifts in perspective. These shifts can go to the very core of personality and enable the client to begin bringing the key strengths of their personality type to conscious awareness.

LINGUISTIC PATTERNS: Insights into perspective, motivation and blind spots are obtained through understanding language patterns. Using tools such as the Meta Model, Hierarchy of Ideas, the Milton Model and Cartesian logic, clients are made aware of and then challenged to face their underlying assumptions, beliefs and perspectives at the core of their behaviours.

PARTS INTEGRATION: This is a process to collapse internal conflicts that are in the way of development and leadership effectiveness. For example, a Three who has a laser focus on goals and achievement may be burning themselves out or destroying relationships through their competitiveness. However, they may experience strong resistance to change because they perceive they will be worthless if they slow down. A parts integration would allow this conflict to be resolved and a more effective strategy to be developed.

EMOTIONAL RELEASE: As the Enneagram makes clear, all personality strategies have an emotional beginning, articulated in the Enneagram through concepts such as the Basic Fear, Basic Desire, Passion and Fixation. While awareness of these concepts is helpful, emotionally triggered patterns.

HEART COHERENCE: While it is widely understood that brain coherence is correlated with high performance and enhanced leadership capabilities, what has only recently been discovered is that heart coherence is the major contributor to brain coherence. That is, the electromagnetic signals sent from the heart to the brain are overwhelmingly responsible for bringing the brain into balance and creating the flow states associated with high performance. The most recent research on insight has revealed it comes in the form of gamma frequency brain activity, again triggered by a conscious hearty awareness process.

These techniques underpin the shift in perspective, consequent development of strategies and actions agreed with the client to improve performance, improve relationships, resolve conflict and achieve agreed outcomes.

Every personality style has a specific way of approaching and viewing their leadership role. Clients are coached toward the underlying strengths of their personality style balanced with understanding of their blind spots and impact on others. For example, a ‘One’ leader who has exceedingly high standards and searches for perfection is coached to be more relaxed, less self-critical and to appreciate when good is enough, rather than focusing on flaws and mistakes. This typically has a huge positive impact on their influence and resilience.

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Every personality style has a specific way of approaching and viewing their leadership role. Clients are coached toward the underlying strengths of their personality style balanced with understanding of their blind spots and impact on others. For example, a ‘One’ leader who has exceedingly high standards and searches for perfection is coached to be more relaxed, less self-critical and to appreciate when good is enough, rather than focusing on flaws and mistakes. This typically has a huge positive impact on their influence and resilience.

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TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS

Best in the business

The coaching service Andrew delivers is top of the range. Through my professional sporting career I was fortunate enough to have leadership and mental skills coaching from some of the best in the business (who coach world champions). I have gained as much from Andrew as I did from these experts in developing high performance. With Andrew's coaching I continue to improve towards being the best person and business leader that I can be.

Glen Bunny, Senior Executive, Winarch Capital

Inspiring

A Leadership Coaching program with Andrew is more than energising and focused – it’s inspiring. He creates an environment that dissolves the limitations of history, expectation, and assumption. Participants become more positive, more confident, more successful within hours of entering the program. The approach is outstanding.

Maxine McPhee, Managing Director, SWON Pty Ltd

Results speak for themselves

Our team performance has gone ahead in leaps and bounds. We’ve developed a winning culture in a high pressure
environment, and staff who have been around for years are telling us things have never been better! Our people enjoy coming to work, their attitudes have changed and their results speak for themselves, such that our bosses are noticing and letting us know we are doing a great job. All of this while we’re having more fun and helping our team members to succeed. We love it. Thank you!

Rudi Rajic and Rachel Wright, Senior Executives and Team Managers

Takes you on an unexpected journey

Working with Andrew on an individual basis, he takes you on an unexpected journey. Lose your preconceived ideas of one-on- one coaching and you will find yourself with the best outcome. My whole approach to looking at challenges and focusing my energy has changed. Many changes have occurred since working with Andrew and the positive surprises just keep coming my way.

Sally Royal, Senior Executive, Hunter Water Corporation

Simply life changing

This course was absolutely amazing! Andrew is an incredible man with such great energy and life experience. I would 100% recommend this course, not just for emerging leaders but for a personal journey. I learnt more than I thought or hoped. Can’t say enough positive things. It was simply life changing.

Sara Perdrau, Commonwealth Government Employee