Act to Change
I’m Sue Duncan
Lead Coach and Founder of Duncan Coaching
Active Coaching for Transformation
Personal Career Coaching
Releasing potential, realise aspirations to change, grow and create a new future!
Business Building Coaching
Focus on your self, your career, your business and your people to build a new direction and new world!
Goal Setting
Set something to aim for in manageable steps. You can maintain your motivation with short-term goals. Increase your confidence as each goal is achieved.
Business Relationships
Learn as much as you can about everyone you work with, from clients to employees. You will be better equiped to deal with the changes in their needs.
Business Management
Increase effectiveness, productivity and resilience with good leadership techniques
Career Advice
Coaching can help with your current job, searching for a new job or identifying your professional career goals.
Why Active Coaching?
There is no greater bonus and investment for you and your business, to make time to focus on what you need to change, to become successful in business, your career or life to be ready for the future. It may even be to realise what you want, what will be important to you moving forward in these rapidly changing times and discover what you can achieve. It’s now the time to stop juggling and start focusing on finding new opportunities, and maybe even create more time for what you find out you really enjoy.
Who Is Coaching For?
- A Managing Director responsible for a team or a growing business.
- A business owner balancing the business with secondary needs and interests, but want time to build new business.
- A team leader that needs to build, grow, develop your team to succeed in a new direction.
- You need to realise your aspirations and want support to move forward to achieve them.
- You’re struggling to live in the now and embrace or manage rapid change.
- You’re constantly “time poor, juggling the demands of managing a business and being the expert.
- Individuals looking for discover what you want to have that balance in your career and life.
- You’re struggling with managing changes that you feel are out of your control.
What is The Process Like?
To make sure Duncan coaching is the right fit for you we like to book a 1 to 1 call or zoom meeting. Usually this will take 30 minutes. We can establish what you require from Duncan Coaching. Are you looking at Individual Coaching for career progression and development, to discover what you love to do, getting motivated for change or gaining life balance and building resilience. Does your small business or team require encouragement and direction for growth and development? Or are you a medium to large business that requires direction with workforce development, business growth and a more defined coaching structure for investing in your workforce to retain talent.
Once the type of coaching & length of commitment is agreed the real process begins.
This stage is where the client focuses on specific changes necessary for fulfilling the individual development plan. This may require the client to:
- Try new behaviour’s and evaluate them with your coach
- Attempt new skills and put them in place
- Strengthen key relationships within the business or in your career
- Talk to people who embody strengths you want and need to develop
- Meet others for their input on your development goals and plans
The 5 Stages of Coaching
1. Establishing the Objectives
Raising awareness and assessing the current situation, analyse the gaps, what needs to be addressed and what is possible to imagine – the vision for you, your career or your business.
2. Identifying the Goals
Setting and agreeing the goals – How to achieve them, steps that need to be taken and how to handle the unexpected along the way. Defining the milestones and working towards achieving your objectives.
3. Contracting
Reviewing the contract in the coaching process, is the point in which you can smooth out all the details of your relationship. It the point in which you, the client and the coach will work on the more formal aspects of coaching, including any paperwork and the financial aspects of the arrangement.
4. Support
Empowerment and execution of the action plan – who will do what, by when – this could be to do with managing yourself, managing others, leading a team, building your career, or growing the business.
5. Analysis
Achieving goals, analysing your performance, discover techniques that worked for you. Create and build a toolkit for the future that invests time spent on managing you, your team, leading in business or taking steps in your new career path.
Introducing coaching can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the individual and the team. It is known for creating more motivated, effective teams, develops individuals. It impacts and enhances already good conversations or and has a positive effect on improving communications during times of rapid change. With many more businesses using coaches to enhance team working, improve confidence and motivation, increase communication’s, have positive benefits on health and well-being. As well as achieving goals or nurturing and retaining talent.
Coaching Packages
Duncan Coaching can provide packages to suit your personal requirements. From short-term coaching, large scale projects, ongoing coaching for individuals or businesses. We are happy to commit to you, if you are happy to commit to your growth and development.
A Coaching Framework:
- Encourages collaboration
- Creates solution focused approaches
- Leverages people’s strengths and preferences
- Focuses on people’s goals and needs
- Provides staff with the skills to make their own decisions
Individual Coaching
The Personal Performer
- Attainable Goals
- Unbiased Insight
- Self Confidence & Balance
- Fresh Perspective
- Embracing Change
Our sessions are 121 face to face sessions or Zoom if preferred. Usually, 1 hour sessions for an agreed number of weeks. They can include researching models and techniques, exploring training and CPD accredited programmes, applying for course places, creating an action plan and work to do outside of sessions such as Psychometric assessment tools related to Career and Personal Development.
Small Business or Teams
Manager of others
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Responsibility
- Managing Change
- Achieving Goals
Our sessions are 121 and group face to face sessions or Zoom if preferred. Time is dedicated by the hour or days depending on what the goals are and scale of what’s required. This can include 121 coaching, mentoring and developing buddy schemes, networking with external subject experts, team working activities, events, workshops and master classes.
Medium to Large Businesses
Leader of the Organisation
- Organisation and assigning work
- Business growth responding to new agendas
- Business Development new directions
- Leading and driving change
- Setting Direction and long-term goals
Our sessions are face to face sessions or Zoom if preferred. A full time line would be agreed with as many sessions agreed as necessary, these could be 1 to 1 or group sessions should they be required.
This can include 121 coaching, mentoring and developing buddy schemes, working with external subject experts or business owners, team working activities, events, workshops and master classes.
About Sue Duncan
Sue Duncan, the founder of Duncan Coaching. Coaching and consultancy is an advocate for career and business coaching and the major benefits that investment can bring. The Duncan coaching team, work with Managing Directors, Business Owners their teams and individuals as well as CEOs, Board Members and Executive teams who want to survive and thrive or embrace changes in their businesses and their careers.
Testimonials
Sue’s a great coach who really helped me think about my options, challenging me to not limit myself and to remind myself of what I was great at. She was super helpful at listening and supporting at a time when I was at a crossroads. She has this amazing ability to put you at ease with her great listening skills and sensitivity. With Sue’s support I was able to set up my own company and have been really pleased with the results.
Sue was my coach when I took redundancy from a long-term role. She helped me to grow my confidence and to believe in myself which was so important to me during a time of change. Sue is very down to earth and fun to work with, she challenged my thinking in a positive way. A key thing for me was focusing on what I wanted more or less of in my next role which helped me to clarify my thinking. I got another role very quickly which suited my needs and I believe working with Sue played a key part in this. I would recommend Sue as a coach.