Coaching Experience
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Michelle Lucas
Profile
Michelle has been coaching individuals for over 10 years now building her skills as she developed a career in HR as those roles required her to work with increasingly senior people on a one to one basis, and latterly as a full-time executive coach. Michelle believes that inside us all is a wealth of untapped potential, yet often organisation goals are at odds with our personal goals or organisation changes will cause us to question our effectiveness. Michelle’s goal when working with clients is to give them the means to release their potential, so they can achieve positive change, in their career development, their personal goals or even within the wider organisation. Michelle’s promise to her clients is to enable them to find clarity, confidence and the readiness to take action.
Experience
Michelle provides coaching in many different contexts: coaching for excellence; performance coaching; personal awareness coaching; targeted development coaching; career coaching and outplacement. She has coached employees at all levels of the organisation – from individual contributors to CEOs – however, she works predominantly with Board Directors and their direct reports. Typically, she works with client organisations that are going through transformational change, e.g. Leadership or cultural change, acquisition, divestment
Her career in HR has allowed her to experience many different industries including Energy Trading, Investment Banking, Specialist Manufacturing, Wholesale, Retail, Logistics. Her recent corporate coaching and facilitation assignments have included RWE Trading; Morley Fund Management; Standard Chartered Bank; Teekay Shipping; BBC; Johnson & Johnson; Vodafone
Michelle is an Applied Psychologist with an MBA from Warwick University, and has completed a Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University and is now progressing these studies to an MA. She is also BPS Level B trained, and specialises in the NEO, Hogan, OPQ and MBTI psychometric tests and the PDI 360 tool. Michelle is committed to continuous professional development and is a Fellow of the CIPD, a graduate member of the British Psychological Society and a Member of the Association of Coaching.
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Coaching executives enabling them to take responsibility for their own development and performance improvement |
High performing executives impacting on the performance of the organisation and the achievement of the business strategy |
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Coaching leaders to develop their leadership skills |
Leaders motivating and developing their teams to implement the business vision and improve performance |
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Coaching new role holders through their first experiences and challenges |
Better focus during ‘induction’ process and fast track to in-role performance |
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Working with business leaders to assist them in the development of the most appropriate behaviours for their role |
Achieving change or modification of behaviours to those more appropriate to the environment in which someone is operating |
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Working with teams to understand their purpose and focus, the common goal and how best to achieve that goal |
The development of high performing teams focussing on achieving maximum business benefit |
Coaching for Performance
