Best practice in leadership, development and fundraising is all very good in theory. In reality, you need to fathom how to apply this to your organisation, and your team, so that you can achieve the best results.
Success looks different to every organisation. My development focussed executive coaching takes into consideration what matters most to you and to your organisation.
Read more about how senior leaders, and their marketing and development teams, can benefit from executive coaching.
I use my expertise in development to help you apply the most relevant principles of best practice in a way that works for you and your team. Together, we will:
My development coaching helps organisations develop their:
I help you put the right development strategies in place so that you can engage the right people and fast-track opportunities to move closer to your goals.
Do you need to recruit a specialist in fundraising or enhance the output of your existing development team?
I help you to:
Leaders cannot be expected to be experts in everything, and the intricacies and complexities of income generation and fundraising can feel daunting. I help break down the jargon and simplify the process so that you feel in control and confident to lead from the front.
I help you find answers to the questions I hear over and over:
I help you by providing:
My development coaching gets right to the heart of the opportunity and helps you draw on your strengths, identifying the best steps to move your development programme forwards.
"Jo has helped by giving us [marketing and admissions] structure to our partnership and fundraising ideas and has helped us to prioritise and focus on what is important. Working with Jo has helped us to crystallise what it is that we are planning to do and give structure to the way we go about doing it.”
Nick Armitage, Head, Rupert House School
Leaders are often unsure of the best way to measure performance and manage their external relations and development teams. How do they know that they are doing a good job?
I help leaders establish meaningful measures so that they know they are getting the best from their external relations and development team.
Leaders don’t often have time to manage the minutiae needed to ensure their external relations and development teams are performing at their best.
I help leaders by providing hands-on one-to-one and team performance coaching so that the teams responsible for external engagement and income generation can:
My performance coaching programmes not only free up leaders to focus on running their businesses, but also support development teams to:
I provide personalised support and practical guidance to help leaders appoint the right development professional, taking into consideration:
My recruitment coaching is designed to respond directly and practically to your immediate recruitment challenges and objectives.
New appointments are most likely to fail in the first 12 – 18 months and so I provide one-to-one executive coaching support beyond the recruitment campaign to empower the successful candidate to:
I work with you in an executive coaching capacity for an agreed period of time. Depending on what you want to achieve, we may work together on an ad hoc hourly basis or meet regularly, for example once a quarter.
How much this costs depends on the nature and duration of your project. The first step is for us to talk so that I can understand what you need to achieve. I will then provide you with a range of solutions for you to consider what is best for you.