Executive Coaching
To fully achieve your potential, greater employability and a more satisfying career path, Rational Executive Coaching is particularly effective at giving you the skills to develop more constructive strategies to improve and enhance your performance in the work place, reduce stress-both personally and professionally, increase your confidence, and become a force to be reckoned with.
It is often the case that a company executive has few trusted people they can turn to but a lot of people who want something from them. Leadership can be incredibly lonely. As a business psychology consultant, who is also an experienced clinical psychotherapist, Bernadette offers something unique as an executive coach. She has exceptional mental acuity in being able to assess, understand and respond quickly, accurately and effectively, producing the desired tactical results whilst providing a bespoke service to each individual.
A surprising number of companies don't understand the science behind successful leadership, or how to translate critically researched, psychological concepts into practise. Often the brightest and most gifted leaders fail because they lack, or don't adopt the psychological skills that leadership demands. A common example being the confusion a number of people experience in stepping up from being hands on, or an expert contributor, to a less directive and more empowering role.
Smartphone addiction and problematic smartphone use in general has created an epidemic of social anxiety, which in leadership roles (among so many other things), is causing considerable problems with being able to maintain effective communication, which is critical to success in team performance. This is addressed on an individual basis at The CBT Covent Garden Practice WC2, so that both support and sensitivity as well as technical skills are used to overcome this problem.
As a C-suite executive, the expectation is that you are always at peak performance, delivering outstanding operational results, whilst being able to deliver on multiple complex projects at once. Leaders have to handle a number of competing demands on their time, attention and expertise, whilst also having the skills required to be innovative, strategic, adaptable and resourceful. There are constant challenges that will stretch you to your limit.
Bernadette provides an invaluable sanctuary in time and space combined with objective rapid-fire cognitive skills that are vital for reflection and collaboration over your professional behaviours, motives and impact, so that with the objective, rigorous and exacting observations of her psychological insight you are able to refresh and reinvigorate your performance keeping you that vital and continuous step ahead.
A genuinely inspiring leader, who is able to get the best out of their team whilst also getting the best out of themselves, can find themselves struggling to do either of these, when the dynamics between the complex challenges in their personal lives and the pressures in the work environment combine in stress overload, resulting in burnout. Considerable anxiety emerges as a result. It isn't long before underlying vulnerabilities emerge, performance confidence plummets and things reach a tipping point.
The Psychotherapist's natural ability to connect with people helps them to feel valued and respected. They give them the skills to address and manage their high levels of anxiety, self-criticism and perfectionism, so that they rebuild their confidence. Her exceptional insight and constructive, solution focussed approach also helps them to learn from their experience, increasing their knowledge and resilience (in other words, broadening their scope ), so that they regain their enthusiasm and zest, are critically and creatively aware of their strengths and development areas and keen to maximise their ability to fulfil themselves by achieving their personal and professional goals.
She offers one off face to face consultations on a particular issue, or executive coaching on an ongoing basis. She also covers a range of roles in the workplace, from helping people to improve their current role as well as improving their own performance in their current role. She coaches intensively on keynote speaking, presentations, communication, assertiveness, leadership development and building effective and rewarding working relationships.