Services
I specialise in people strategy and team development for tech startups and rapid-growth scale ups, by:
- Coaching their leaders and senior teams to work together effectively and understand the impact of their behaviours
- Defining the right structure, culture, leadership and management behaviours, processes and reward systems to support their growth
- Putting the right people frameworks in place that make staff feel valued
- Supporting existing people teams and leadership teams with people-related issues and challenges
Individual and team coaching are core parts of my services – these are built into working with leadership teams to define what’s right for the business.
It’s vital to create workplaces where employees thrive and perform at their best; it’s really important to create those conditions early in a company’s life or growth trajectory with the right attention in the right areas.
Individual and Team Coaching
Coaching is an ideal tool to help ensure that change takes root on an organisational or individual level. It can mean the difference between success and failure.
Training
I develop bespoke leadership, management and change training courses that are aligned to the context and culture of your company.
Offsites
From global leadership conferences to short team offsites, I design, develop and deliver workshops to create strategies for achieving team goals.
Healthchecks
An investigation and analysis of what will help your company reach its potential, from a people perspective. This may include: analysis of management practice and behaviours, organisational structure, reward systems, and culture and employee engagement.
How I can help - example case
The client
- CEO or co-founders of a startup
- 10+ employees
The situation
- Starting to scale and bring on employees from varied businesses to fill knowledge gaps
- Senior staff bring their own ideas and ways of working and building their own teams
- The opportunity for silos to form is high. Alignment on purpose and key issues is key
- Expectations that you’ll fulfil your role as a good employer are high
- Motivation is high but employees need to feel valued
- Leadership team is forming and developing
The task
The CEO's job is to get that team of people pulling in the right direction for the success of the business – the best way to get the best from people is to cultivate the connections and relationships. You need to:
- Build your self-awareness
- Understand the impact and influence of your actions
- Deliberately and purposefully build the best company structure and culture that sets your business up for success
- Behave and communicate in ways that support your culture and make you a role model and leader
You understand technology, products, ideas, systems and processes, finances and investors. Your understanding of people will be a defining factor in your future success. You might be experiencing:
- Low-level conflict in the team
- Unclear or overlapping remits
- New team members who haven’t worked together before, with different agendas
- Issues being put down to one ‘problem’ individual or personality clashes – or ‘not the right culture fit’