Executive Coaching

“Coaching is about unlocking people’s potential to maximise their own performance”

Sir John Whitmore

Your success today depends on your ability to make sense of the frantic world around you and develop clear approaches to the complex issues you will face.

How does Executive Coaching help you?

Enhances

your leadership skills as you develop and grow the business in a fast-paced and complex environment.

Increases

your self-awareness leading to improved self-management as well as a better understanding of your strengths and weaknesses.

Helps

you focus on what matters so that you achieve a better work-life balance as well as reducing stress.

Builds

a high-performance culture, ensuring that your teams are resourced and well set up for success.

COACHING FOCUS

Knowledge

What do I need to learn? What are the important technical and cultural aspects of my environment?

Boss

How do I engage with my boss so that we both have a shared interpretation on what my success looks like?

Delivery

What should I focus on achieving in order to build credibility?

Team

How should I build and manage the team whose support is crucial to my success?

Peers

How do I build the networks and alliances that will help me identify and navigate the corridors of power?

Self

What routines do I need to develop in order to refresh and recharge?

Who is Executive Coaching for?

C-Suite
Executives

who need support navigating complex organisational challenges.

Senior
Managers

who are the lynchpins in leading teams to implement organisational strategy.

High
Potentials

who are on the rise and want to accelerate their development.

Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

who face challenges in managing and growing their companies.

HOW IT WORKS

Pre-Programme

Chemistry Check – client and coach meet to discuss approach and see if they are a “match”
Proposal – outline design of programme and fee quotation

Discovery and Goal Setting

Three-Way Meeting -(Organisational Coaching Goals Exploration)
Enrollment Questionnaire
Psychometric Testing*
360° Feedback*

MONTH 1

Application and Action

Coaching Goals Confirmation
Core Coaching Sessions
Sessions last between 90 minutes to 2 hours

MONTHS 2 TO 4

Consolidation

Check in with programme sponsor and stakeholders with an interest
Incorporation of new goals if necessary
Consolidation of new behaviours and initiatives

MONTHS 5 AND 6

Review

Programme Review – review with programme sponsor and stakeholders
Next Steps – agree what happens next

* If required

Developing clear approaches to the complex issues

My name is Dara Lawlor. I’m a business consultant and executive coach. I work with both early-stage and established SMEs who employ a minimum of 20 people. I’m known for helping them build healthy businesses through winning the right contracts and some of them have sold their businesses as a result. My work with the leaders of SMEs involves resourcing them so that they can step away from tactical operations to focus on the strategic work of growing the business. This involves developing them and their teams so that they can build solid foundations to make clear and powerful offers to the market that leads to a vibrant and growing business.

SMEs are the real engine of the economy and the key to a nation’s vitality. They can spring from a garage, the mind of a returning emigrant or indeed that of a newly arrived immigrant. They provide a path, build careers, feed families and develop their surrounding communities.

If they are adequately resourced and supported, their leaders will be able to build the confident, nimble and resilient organisations that our nations need.

I’m a keen sportsman, and the lessons I’ve learned from participating in numerous triathlons inform my approach to supporting my clients so that they are fit to win.

Testimonials

Dara has been working one-to-one with a number of my senior team over the last year and a half. He has steadily built their leadership capabilities and as a result has accelerated their careers – some to the extent that they are now ready to assume even more responsibility. I highly recommend him.

Stephen Murphy

Head of Service Delivery, Circet Ireland & UK

Dara has been working with key members of our team, equipping them with new levels of confidence and preparing them for the next levels of responsibility within our small organisation. His work has been seminal, both for the individuals concerned, and their contribution to our company’s future. I unreservedly recommend him as an empathetic coach who helps professionals clarify personal mission and vision, find and focus their mojo and, ultimately, make a difference.

Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner

SoolNua

Dara was a port in a storm as I began a new role in a new industry. He was quick to engage and establish a relationship of trust and support. Every time we met he steered me through known and unknown issues at hand, and helped me move forward with tangible plans and confidence. His own wealth of senior experience in people, projects and challenges was a key differentiator as a coach and I would thoroughly recommend him.

Senior Executive

Government Agency

I gave Dara an employee who showed great potential but who lacked an understanding of the mechanisms of business. He gave me back a probable leader who has taken the lid off her perceived limitations and grown in stature in the eyes of those who matter to her career progression.

Kieran Killeen, Managing Director

Marketing Network Group

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