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As a business professional, manager or entrepreneur do you ever lack confidence?
Maybe you’d like to feel more confident in your personal life?
Together we clarify your goals, boost your assertiveness, communication and leadership skills.
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5 customer reviews
Samantha
I looked for a life coach for my son who is at the age where he was looking for employment after University. His shyness and difficulty in speaking on a phone was causing a road block for him.
After pointing this out to him, I tentatively suggested that he might like to consider talking it through with someone professional.
I researched life coaches and his needs and found a few. Lucy's stuck out for me. I called her first and then, my son did well to chat to her. Zoom meeting began and although my son didn't go into great detail about their meetings; he clearly felt comfortable to carry on.
C.V was looked at and tweaked. Lucy gave great advice on how to tell a story with her interview techniques to enhance his speech when speaking.
He put the effort in, followed her guidance, and has secured a great job and is very proud of himself. He just needed that extra bit of help to move forward and he did. She also put a lot of behind the scenes work in which to me shows that she really cares. Thank-you Lucy - Sam
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izzy hare
My sessions on assertiveness with Lucy were very helpful indeed, Lucy provided the tools for me to assert myself in both the social and workplace situations and was highly collaborative and constructive. I work in a high pressured work environment and have found her methods have helped me immensely! More...
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I can only say great things about Lucy. She coaches with wisdom, humanity and practicality.
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What do you love most about your job?
I find it hugely rewarding to see how a client moves from where they are to where they want to be, whether this is discovering and reminding themselves of their talents and finding new opportunities, dealing with challenging and difficult people and situations, creating a top of the pile CV and delivering a great interview, handling stress and becoming a true time manager, or moving from shy and unassertive to become a confident and assertive communicator, skilled in meetings and in giving presentations.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I was inspired to build a business in confidence and communication after attending an assertiveness course presented by a Redwood Trainer in 1989. I realised how valuable assertive behaviour and communication is for all aspects of life and decided to train as a trainer and life coach, and offer these skills to organisations and individuals.
Why should our clients choose you?
1. A Unique & Powerful Combination
As one of the most experienced coaches and trainers in the UK, my knowledge and approach has been developed over 30 years’ coaching and training individuals and within organisations across all sectors, including NatWest IT R&D, Stuart Low Trust (charity) and University of Oxford. I offer a unique blend of life coaching to define and attain your goals along with specialist help and training in my areas of expertise: assertiveness, confidence, CVs/interviews, presenting & public speaking & stress/time management. My approach is problem-solving and developmental, to help you overcome barriers, fast-track skills and design & carry out action plans to take you to your goals.
I originally graduated from the London School of Economics & am professionally qualified as both coach & trainer. I am a full member of the Association of Coaching & Society of Authors. In the words of one client in global recruitment: "Lucy is simply brilliant at coaching you through life's inevitable challenges. Lucy's approach is warm, practical and inspiring."
2. Ultimate Flexibility & Convenience
Since the start of the pandemic, for your safety, I have moved exclusively to online coaching and coaching by phone, along with email support. Sessions are mostly on Zoom, or mobile (phone, Facetime, WhatsApp). This also avoids travel time and creates greater flexibility for appointments. Distance is no object and I work with clients across the world.
I work with clients at all stages of their careers, from Chief Executives & top professionals to students who are starting their journeys. Coaching may cover professional or personal issues, or both.
3. Safe Environment
Our sessions are confidential and you may choose to focus on a single issue or a range of challenges in your life. You may want to discuss matters raised by these unprecedented and uncertain times, if you feel anxious about the future, not knowing what it may bring. You might want to develop your communication skills, manage downwards or upwards or make a detailed action plan to fulfil a dream.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
Coaching sessions take place online by Zoom, WhatsApp, FaceTime or Phone only.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
I no longer offer face-to-face coaching for convenience, flexibility and safety.
Life Coaching
Many people have good ideas but not everyone makes them happen.
Life Coaching offers a dynamic to enable you to identify your goals in life and career and translate these goals into actions.
Coaching gives you the confidence to explore from different angles even the most perplexing problem, and find solutions.
Executive Coaching
As a Chief Executive, celebrity or someone in a high profile role, you may be very successful but it can also feel lonely at the top.
Executive Coaching offers the opportunity for clients to speak freely about professional career and personal pressures, to speak of concerns and goals without fear of judgement and in the knowledge that what is said will receive an empathetic ear and be treated in confidence.
Assertiveness Coaching
Life Coaching will help you become more assertive and enable you to behave & communicate more confidently in your personal & professional relationships, aiming at win-win solutions & enhancing your self-esteem. In the words of Anthony Robbins: “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”
Confidence Coaching
Confidence coaching will build or enhance your self-esteem and confidence. This includes recognising the qualities and skills you have, as well which to enhance or acquire, and finding strategies to address situations where you feel unconfident or would like to feel more confident than you do at present. Coaching is online on Zoom.
Public Speaking & Presentations Coaching
The ability to speak with confidence is a vital asset, whether for work or in social situations, and sometimes there is an overlap, such as at work receptions & parties internally or with customers.
1-2-1 training & coaching helps you manage your nerves, gain confidence & even learn to enjoy speaking & presenting.
CV Writing & Coaching
Knowing how to write a CV capturing your best talents and chosen direction will help you, whether you:
- Want to do yourself justice with your CV
- Have a CV that stands out from the crowd,
- Feel stuck and are seeking a change, or
- Are midway in your career and aiming for promotion
- Are a high achiever thinking of the next step who wants a non-judgemental listener to talk through the challenges of being at the top, or
- Are starting out in your career or your studies
I can help you make those all-important decisions about course and career, working with you to write a winning CV. This enhances your prospects of successful application for a new job, promotion or a university place.
Interview Coaching
Worried about interviews? You’re not the only one!
Prepare & practise so you present yourself with clarity & confidence.
Together we will identify and promote what makes you stand out, increasing your chances of success at interview.
We will identify potential questions and consider how to answer them.
Stress Management
Life Coaching will help you identify your key stressors, separating the demands you make on yourself from the external demands made upon you. We will explore ways to prevent, reduce or manage your stressors (causes of stress), internal & external and develop an action plan of strategies and skills to address current circumstances that will also serve you for future events.
Time Management
During coaching you can not only acquire new skills & practices but apply them there and then to your paper mountains and overflowing tasks to feel more in control of your time…and hence, your life. Coaching enables you to discover & discard your key misuses of time and create new patterns and positive practices.