Leadership Coaching For Business Leaders Who Also Happen To Be Loving Dads
This programme is designed specifically for career and family focused men who are ready to challenge the old-school societal dad standards.
This programme is ideal for you if you are a business leader and a dad. You are ambitious, you love your career and love leading your team, you also hate the idea of not being the present dad you want to be for your children. You are smashing it at work and loving the challenges but balancing that with parenting has hit you hard.
You are tired of feeling stressed, sleep-deprived and irritable. You feel guilty for rushing home and saying no to drinks after work and you also feel guilty when you have to work late or must be away with work and miss your child’s sports day. You are feeling symptoms of burnout at work and as a parent, not feeling as connected as you thought you would be to your children. You hate explaining to your boomer boss AGAIN why you must leave on time to pick up your little one from nursery because your wife also has a career. You want to be a supportive partner – your other half has been through the works with pregnancies, hormones, lack of sleep, and physical depletion and you want to be there for her but you are also pretty knackered.
At the end of our time together you will gain clarity on your priorities and be able to set those boundaries without jeopardising your career or family time. You will feel heard and understood and reconnected to your family. Together, we will find ways for you to let go of the burden of expectations and stress and be the best father and the leader you know you can be. And most of all you will be reminded of what it’s like to have fun at work and with your little ones.
How it works
6 x 1-hour virtual coaching sessions over 12 weeks.
Programme Flow:
First and super crucial – we need to become buddies. In my work with dads, I am very aware that I’m a mother (and therefore not a dad!) which takes away some of my credibility points (trust me it’s just how it may feel at the beginning – I really do get men and the challenges fatherhood brings to you and I am your impartial friend in this!!). We will spend the first couple of sessions chatting about you, who you are, what you love about life, your family, and what you hate about your present moment. We will have a friendly rant about the hardships. Think of this stage as a chat with a mate in a cosy local pub – favourite tipple in hand, good old heart to heart and a laugh together.
Once we got know each other and have that feeling of mutual trust we will get cracking. You will notice that whilst you and I have been chatting in our virtual local pub I have been making mental connections and helping you start bubbling up your key frustrations to the surface. Like a good mate would. At this stage I will work with you to make them more explicit – we will give those frustrations names and put them into categories and prioritise them.
Next is the cool part – we poke at things to figure out what you REALLY need from this program. This will not be obvious at first but coaching is a beautiful thing, before we know it it will pop up to the surface – those categories and priorities will shape themselves into a beautifully clear goal you will work on for the rest of our time together.
Now this is where the fun work begins! We leave the pub and take ourselves to the gym. This is your personal training time weights AND cardio!
This bit is the creative bit where we will strategise together and come up with real practices you will go out and experiment with to start shifting you towards that goal.
In-between your experiments we will regroup, reflect and come up with more tactics and things for you try out. We will also get clear on what’s not working and what’s a YOU fit and what is not!
Towards the end of the second month we will solidify this experimentation with a clear sustainment plan and how you will integrate the YOU you want to be into realities of life.
And last but not least - before you know it you will go out into the world with a new perspective on who you are and see life full of joy and possibilities!