Paula Broadbent CoachingÂ
Unlocking Senior Leadership: Transitioning High Performers into Effective Leaders
When leaders transition into larger roles, there may be a period where organisations don't fully benefit from their expertise.
Leaders are often working hard, but can be focusing on the wrong things, spinning their wheels and blocking organisational productivity.
A frustrating situation for leaders, their teams and their customers.
I specialise in supporting senior leaders navigating this pivotal shift— when previous successes may not directly translate into bigger roles.
In these instances, “what got you here won’t get you there.” It’s essential to focus your attention differently and manage your time, energy, and expertise in new ways to ensure success.
My approach provides the tailored support and tools necessary for these leaders to thrive.
One size does not fit all; finding the fewest things that make the biggest difference can vary significantly by organisation and individual. While extensive research outlines the aspects vital for moving into senior roles, the application is highly context-specific.
I offer established frameworks and roadmaps developed from years of experience to help leaders identify what their unique transition will involve.
As they step into new positions, leaders will need to leverage their strengths differently and remain aware of their preferences and styles, which may have been effective in their previous roles.
To navigate this change successfully, self-awareness and responsiveness—not reactivity—are crucial for maintaining balance and achieving results.
This journey isn’t just about knowing what to do; it's also about implementing self-awareness and self-management techniques that foster resilience and adaptability in the face of challenges. Integrating an element of practice or praxis can support real behavioural change and serves as the final piece of the puzzle that many approaches overlook.
I offer 1-1 coaching, group coaching, training, consultancy, and change management practices designed to support the transition into larger roles for individuals, their teams, and their organisations.Â
Coaching
Our coaching approach is rooted in finding what works for each individual in their different contexts.Â
Its a collaborative process that helps people solve problems and improve their performance.
Its not one size fits all.
It is based on the coachee's leadership stage and organisational context in which they work. It's also focused on their unique personality and experience in relation to this context.
We use our range of experience and a set of tools and diagnostics to explore what works for each individual we coach.Â
One of our Coaching frameworks is the BE CLEAR pathway. This is designed to effectively support senior leaders transitioning into General Management / Functional Leader roles to become productive in role.
Training and Consultancy
What's critical for effective change is to have clarity on the situation you face. What worked brilliantly for others may not be relevant for you.
Understanding organisational and individual context is critical.
We bring many years of cross-sector experience as well as practical tools to clarify your organisation, its strategic direction, what this means for its operational approach and how it needs to organise itself and its people to be successful.Â
Consultancy and training aligns with our Coaching and praxis approach to provide insight and challenge whilst supporting individually driven personal development.
We pull together research and experience of what drives and stalls productivity in organisations. Our work pays for itself in productivity gains and a better working enviornment.
Change Enabling Practices (Praxis Tools)
A set of methods / practices that enable leaders to become responsive to situations rather than relying on your unconscious reaction patterns.
When moving into senior leadership roles, it involves a level of complexity. Its not enough just to know what we should do. In order to really embed new ways of thinking and working in an authentic way, we need to go beyond the classroom to make change.Â
Practices such as yoga, sound baths, meditation, breath-work and HRV management when practiced with focus and intention, go far beyond resilience and wellbeing.Â
They support the building of emotional intelligence, self awareness and self management; the basis of effective situational and relationship management both at home and at work..
Through my career I've built experience as an organisational consultant, executive coach, facilitator and personal development specialist.
I bring this all together to support leaders through significant career transitions.Â
My approach is rooted in what works, honed through years of experimentation and learning.
Together, we will harness these elements to achieve your greater impact and fulfilment in your new role. Let’s embark on your leadership journey and create your unique success story.
Read my story
The time I have spent with Paula will be something I always refer back to as it has given me a set of tools to unpick difficult situations through greater self-awareness.
Paula is great at bringing everyone into the room. Not afraid to explore tangential material or to take the time to explore different conceptsÂ
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