Vera Woodhead
My Coaching Approach

My coaching is underpinned by extensive organisational experience, a Masters Degree in Coaching & Mentoring & continuous professional development

My approach is transformational, developmental, holistic and works with the whole person and system

Tailored for you

I adopt an eclectic approach, choosing concepts/ perspectives/ models from my extensive toolkit which are most suitable and relevant to your needs, context & situation

Some of these include

Humanistic, transpersonal, positive, developmental, Gestalt... Psychology
Existential, cognitive behavioural , psychodynamic..
Transactional analysis, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, resilience...

I work with

• Leaders, managers in the NHS, universities, public & private sectors (leadership & executive coaching)
• Women seeking career success & promotion, greater confidence, influence, visibility (confidence & career development coaching)
• Individuals seeking better balance, less stress, more fulfilment

How can coaching help you?

• Impartial, confidential sounding board to bounce ideas and challenges with in times of change, transition & growth
• Helps you to find clarity & focus, increases your self awareness and the actions you need to take to get different outcomes
• Challenges assumptions, behaviours & limiting beliefs that hold you back
• Provides robust feedback, stretch to help you achieve your potential and accelerates your progress
• Develops your inner capacity, skills & strengths & effectiveness

What a coaching programme looks like

• 1st session: contracting, defining outcomes, how success will be measured
• Series of coaching conversations at agreed times with unlimited email support between sessions
• Small amount of 'homework' in between sessions e.g practising new behaviours, watching a short video...
• Midway assessment of progress & relationship effectiveness
• Programme evaluation, outcomes achieved, learning gained

My role in the conversation

• Create a safe, confidential and trusting space
• Help you move from chaos to clarity, complexity to simplicity and get to the core of the issue
• Challenge unhelpful assumptions, beliefs & mindsets that may be holding you back

My role in the conversation

• Listen and ask insightful questions to deliver new insights & awareness
• Help you generate a way forward and actions to get there
• Support you as you progress, help you learn from mistakes, develop coping strategies

our relationship

• Is at the heart of what we do and is crucial to success
• Based on mutual respect, trust & transparency
• Is a shared experience for which we both take responsibility, commitment & accountability for
• Is equal, based on 'I'm OK, you are OK'

What am I like to work with?

• Non directive - the agenda is driven by you
• A critical friend who provides robust feedback on what I observe, hear, sense
• Provide stretch balanced with support
• Flexible, empathetic, inspiring, pragmatic, creative.. balanced with moments of light heartedness

Working with me starts with a conversation

• A discussion: why coaching, why now, what would you like to change, improve, be better at...
• What outcomes are you seeking, time frame, budget
• Am I the right coach for you...approach, style, fit
• There is no cost for the above, pick up the phone

Get in touch

• Email: v@edimo.co.uk
• T: 07990 731840
• Twitter: @verawoodhead
• Linkedin: /verawoodhead