Personal Coaching

As leaders take on more responsibility there is often less opportunity to check out their ideas with others before they go public. To do this within your organisation can pose problems of confidentiality, so many leaders use coaching as a way to think out loud within a confidential setting. A one on one session ensures you have the freedom to express your thoughts, be heard, get feedback, be challenged, and access a range of leadership resources.

 Coaching sessions can be used for:

  • Career direction
  • Interview practice for that important job application
  • Setting your personal vision and goals – branding yourself
  • Conflict management - dealing with difficult colleagues, staff, the team, clients, or your manager
  • Work/life balance
  • Refining important presentations
  • Stakeholder management

Lois as a coach

Lois has worked across many disciplines within the private and public sectors.


She has managed staff, undertaken significant company-wide change initiatives, had a number of years as a Board member in not for profit organisations, and has been successfully self-employed twice - so she understands the challenges of leadership.


With over 17 years consulting and coaching experience, she has built up a range of resources for leaders including personal profiling instruments (Team Management Index) and NLP tools.


Study is an ongoing part of her life and has included business studies, counseling, Neuro Linguistics (NLP), mediation/arbitration, and Virginia Satir’s methods of working with human potential.

 Her aim when coaching is to:

  1. support your journey by understanding your issues.
  2. use questions to enable you to positively transform your thinking and feelings on issues of importance.
  3. provide you with feedback on areas that require development, and areas that are working well for you.
  4. assist you to decide your direction and plan the action required for success.

 And your role…. Virginia Satir’s 5 freedoms sum it up …

  • To see and hear… what is said instead of what should be, was, or will be
  • To say… what you feel and think instead of what you should
  • To feel… what you feel instead of what you aught
  • To ask… for what you want instead of always waiting for permission
  • To take risks… on your own behalf instead of choosing to be only secure and not rocking the boat