case studies
Effective leadership is more crucial than ever in today’s fast-paced and complex business environment. At Illuminate Leadership Coaching, we understand that true leadership extends beyond titles and traditional measures of success. It’s about unleashing potential, inspiring change, and achieving extraordinary results. Our coaching enables professionals and emerging leaders to unlock their full potential and propel their careers and organisations forward.
Developing the mindset for Leadership success
Background
A Deputy Director In the public sector engaged in Leadership coaching to support them to develop their career. They felt that having been extremely successful their career was now stalling due to a declining belief in themselves and losing focus on their purpose and direction. Their aim was to build belief and self-awareness to secure a director role.
Approach
Together we sought to understand the underlying reasons for the declining self-belief. We stripped back the underlying stories from previous experiences and reframed perspectives to unlock the true potential within. We undertook a values exercise and celebrated the skills, strengths and achievements that had a true resonance and impact for them. This built strong self-awareness of what had meaning and a clear blueprint of what they needed to be fulfilled. motivated and successful.
Outcomes
The Deputy Director strengthened their growth mindset and resilience, took learning from their past experiences, and created empowered stories for themselves. This enabled them to create a focus for their next career steps resulting in them successfully securing a director role.
Adapting leadership style
Background
A Head of Data in a financial services organisation was a successful expert in their field and highly respected. This was acknowledged by the promotion to their role. The Head of Data was naturally introverted, and this brought great leadership qualities with their team, however the challenge was to create impact and influence across the business to define and implement a transformative data strategy. The Individual engaged with coaching to support them in achieving this.
Approach
We partnered together to define the key business challenges the individual faced. We discussed personal brand, authentic leadership style and how to adapt communication in different contexts to ensure clarity of message and engagement. The individual also undertook an MBTI assessment to understand their own preferences of their introversion type and learnt to lean into communicating to those who have an extroversion preference. Through experimenting and feeding back experiences the individual learnt how to adapt their communication style to their audience whilst remaining authentic to who they are as a leader.
Outcomes
The Head of Data successfully collaborated with business stakeholders to define the data strategy and began to implement key elements across the organisation.
Developing the mindset for Leadership success
Background
A Deputy Director In the public sector engaged in Leadership coaching to support them to develop their career. They felt that having been extremely successful their career was now stalling due to a declining belief in themselves and losing focus on their purpose and direction. Their aim was to build belief and self-awareness to secure a director role.
Approach
Together we sought to understand the underlying reasons for the declining self-belief. We stripped back the underlying stories from previous experiences and reframed perspectives to unlock the true potential within. We undertook a values exercise and celebrated the skills, strengths and achievements that had a true resonance and impact for them. This built strong self-awareness of what had meaning and a clear blueprint of what they needed to be fulfilled. motivated and successful.
Outcomes
The Deputy Director strengthened their growth mindset and resilience, took learning from their past experiences, and created empowered stories for themselves. This enabled them to create a focus for their next career steps resulting in them successfully securing a director role.
Leading through change
Background
A Director from a leading financial business was under pressure to deliver transformation at pace. After receiving feedback that their leadership approach was not landing successfully the individual sought Leadership coaching to work through the challenges.
Approach
We partnered together to understand the environment in which the individual was leading. We discussed leadership approaches and defined styles that were successful during change and transformation. We analysed the feedback and how the individual was feeling, this helped them understand themselves and their emotional reactions they focused on building emotional intelligence to understand others. We discussed how listening to others and asking questions to seek understanding was fundamental to their success as a leader. We discussed the values of the organisation and how this could be a guiding light for them to enable them to follow cultural expectations.
Outcomes
The director adapted to a coaching leadership style, and this allowed them to be less directive and more collaborative in their approach. This empowered people to take ownership and reduce the resistance to the change. This behavioural shift led to positive feedback and reduced pressure for the director to implement the change successfully.
