Shifting Behaviour


If we don’t change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
Eastern Proverb
Executive coaching is an opportunity for leaders to develop their competencies and capabilities as individuals and as leaders, to become tomorrow’s leaders today.

Skilled coaching increases an executive's ability to take on greater responsibility and larger opportunities, and to take their organisation to new levels of success. It's about maximising potential, ensuring ‘match fitness’.

This is about positive behavioural change. It is about new levels of personal mastery, that in turn create fresh momentum, energy and outcomes for your organisation.

There are also occasions when coaching is sought for an executive who may be delivering on their KPI’s but is having some negative impact on those around them and so requires some form of behavioural change.

Revelations through the coaching has changed my relationship to my staff and I have started to hold them accountable and delegate more effectively. I have learned effective strategies that have improved my productivity substantially. I have moved through comfort zones that have been holding me back in areas such as communication, delegation and saying no in a positive way.
Robert Gooch, Divisional Manager, Toyota

It is vital for an organisation to identify these instances as quickly as possible.

The more rapidly these issues are addressed the more quickly the situation can be turned around and the less damage gets done.

Whether the coaching is sought to address specific issues or to achieve significant performance enhancement, it is essential that the participant is genuinely willing to undertake the process. It needs to be a positive choice. Nothing sustainable will be accomplished without that foundation.

Before we take on any client, we meet in advance with the person to be coached to ensure that they are ready to take on the process.

What kind of behavioural change can you expect to see from Hewsons Executive Coaching?

The kinds of behavioural changes that are sustainably produced through Hewsons' work with people and which empower the development of leadership capability are:
  • Thinking, acting and leading from integrity
  • Managing the impact on others of negative behaviour
  • Accepting responsibility - no longer playing the ‘blame-game’
  • Communicating responsibly and in a way that leaves others highly engaged
  • Listening with real interest, empathy and intent
  • Taking on tough and confronting conversations or challenges rather than avoiding them
  • Generating ideas and solutions
  • Taking ownership of organisational initiatives
  • Living company values