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I help leaders to solve their leadership challenges, find their unique identity and get on track for a career change or new life direction.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful guided conversation, using professional tools and techniques and insightful questions, so you can discover ideas that will work for you. Coaching is a unique time and space for you, with focused attention and no judgement, so you can find your strengths and confidence. Coaching has a clear purpose and a future focus.
Coaching is for you if you want to make a change to get what you want in your working, business or personal life.
You can be your best self and get what you want:
- in life
- at work
- in business
What is strengths-based coaching?
Strengths-based coaching supports you to see your strengths clearly so you can feel more confident, use them more often and build a success mindset. Working with a Qualified Coach can help you to focus your energy on the things you can control, know your worth and maximise your strengths. Your coach will guide you using professional tools and techniques in a safe and non-judgemental space. Coaching has a clear purpose and a future focus so you can action plan to get what you want.
What are strengths?
Strengths are your natural positive attributes, often things that you use without realising on a daily basis in all areas of your life, not just in work. Take a look at my video to find out more about how I help clients to see their strengths clearly.
Show Your Strengths on Your CV
I’ve summarised some of my favourite CV advice in my latest article, which I think gives the opportunity to show your strengths. Check it out on my LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/show-your-strengths-cv-jo-murfin
At My Best Practitioner of the Month Strengths Based Coaching
I’m proud to be At My Best Practitioner of the Month. In this short video I share how I use strengths-based approaches to help clients to be open and honest so they are able to take control and find a way forward to get what they want.
‘Jo was amazing. I felt she took me on such a positive journey’
Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
Qualified Leadership Career & Development Coach
I am a qualified, experienced Leadership Career and Development Coach, specialising in:
CAREER COACHING: I help you as an experienced leader to find a career change or new direction that you will love for the future.
NEW LEADER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: I help you as a new or developing leader to feel confident and develop your own leadership identity to become a great leader.
BE A GREAT LEADER: I help you to overcome your leadership problems including;
- Not enough time
- Feeling stressed
- Challenging staff issues
- Lacking motivation
‘I’m now much clearer about what I want from my future career‘
I work with leaders of all types, from individuals looking for a career change, sole traders and SME business owners, through to team leaders, middle managers and senior managers in large organisations.
Over the last 4 years I’ve coached leaders in professions including Lawyer, Teacher, Designer, Archaeologist, Consultant, Hospital Manager, Head of Service and Social Worker with the NHS, Brighton & Hove City Council and East Sussex County Council.
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Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
The Benefits of Working with a Qualified Coach
Quality: The quality of my coaching is accredited to a nationally recognised standard as I’m qualified with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) to coach leaders and managers.
Success: My coaching approach works, as I have demonstrated benefits and improvements for my clients during the rigorous qualification assessment process. I continue to receive positive feedback and testimonials from my clients, please review some of these below.
Flexibility: I have the knowledge and confidence to be flexible for you as a unique individual and will introduce tools and techniques that will bring you the most benefit. My qualification training required evaluation of a wide range of coaching tools and techniques and I continue to learn and develop through my professional membership of the Institute of Leadership and Management and Association for Coaching.
Expertise: I have the skills and expertise to guide you to break free from things that are stopping you and to take control of getting what you want, as I have 4 years and over 100 hours of qualified coaching experience. I trained and continue to receive mentoring and supervision from recognised ILM qualification provider QED Ltd. I also receive supervision from the Association for Coaching. (Note: client details and session content are confidential and never shared)
Support: I will support you without judgement or assumptions, so you can feel confident to be open and creative to make the most of your strengths. My qualification assessments required extensive reflection on my own thoughts, feelings and behaviour and I continue to reflect and grow through my commitment to learning and development. I work to the Association of Coaching Global Code of Ethics.
‘My confidence has been helped by this process and I felt happier after each session‘
Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
Find out more about the benefits of working with a Qualified Career Coach on the My Coaching Toolkit website.
My Coaching Programme
Getting What You Want
My programme will help you to:
1. See what you want and what’s important to you clearly.
2. Break free from things that are stopping you from getting what you want.
3. Take control and focus on getting what you want in a balanced life.
4. Get what you want through realistic and achievable actions.
My holistic coaching approach considers the impact each area of your life has on getting what you want, including:
- health and wellbeing
- family
- money
- career
- relationships
- identity
- creativity
- new experiences
We focus where you want to focus. I support you as a unique person to develop ideas and solutions that are right for you, in a safe and non-judgmental space where you can make the most of your strengths.
‘Thank you so much it’s been brilliant, way beyond my expectations’
Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
About me
I work online worldwide and in person (subject to COVID-19 restrictions) across the South East.
I have a strong natural ability to connect with people so I can draw out what you really want and what’s really blocking you. So you can take control and get what you want.
Fairness, kindness and being authentic are really important to me. As your coach I will be my real self so we can build trust. You can feel comfortable to be open and bring diversity issues with no judgement. You will have the space to think creatively to make the most of your strengths.
I am a qualified, certified and insured Leadership Coach with 4 years coaching experience and over 15 years leadership experience.
Qualification: Level 5 Coaching Leaders and Managers qualification from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and a full ILM Member.
Membership:
Member Brighton Chamber
Member of the Association for Coaching working to the Association for Coaching Global Code of Ethics
Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) since 2016
Experience:
Over the last 4 years I’ve coached leaders in professions including Lawyer, Teacher, Designer, Archaeologist, Consultant, Hospital Manager, Head of Service and Social Worker with the NHS, Brighton & Hove City Council and East Sussex County Council.
I have over 15 years leadership experience as a front line manager and lead project manager. I worked in front line management for 12 years, including at the National Media Museum, Brighton & Hove City Council and The Royal Pavilion. I’ve managed successful projects as a PRINCE2 qualified Project Manager over the last 15 years.
As a Project Manager and previously Project Consultant (Director) I bring people from various backgrounds together to form a temporary team for successful co-creating. I understand the challenge leaders face in motivating and involving a diverse team of people with a range of personalities, whilst aiming to deliver improved business performance. This experience informs my Leadership Coaching as I work with leaders to find an identity which maximises their strengths so they can lead with confidence, balancing performance with compassion.
Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
Connect: LinkedIn
Testimonials and Feedback
‘Jo is a fantastic coach who has very successfully supported leaders in the NHS, at East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council. She has worked at all levels of organisations on a wide range of issues, from building confidence and resilience, to thinking in a more systemic way to further senior leadership career development. Coachees have found Jo to be highly empathetic and appreciate the wide range of activities and tools used to help them move towards their goals. As Jo is one of the more experienced coaches in our coaching network she is often able to mentor other newly qualified coaches and help them come up with creative ways of working with their clients’. Lisa Burroughs, East Sussex Coaching Pool Manager
‘My confidence has been helped by this process and I felt happier after each session, which has benefits in terms of going on to be more productive as a result.’ Liz, Brighton
‘I was at an interesting point in my career, I gained a promotion and needed some additional support with this change. I am really pleased Jo coached me, she has a vibrancy and a kindness which helped me to be open and honest with her. During our sessions Jo used different resources which kept things fresh and enabled me to see the issues I was facing from different perspectives. I came away from our sessions feeling really calm and centred for the rest of the day. Even now I try to capture that feeling when I start to feel overwhelmed. As a result of coaching with Jo I now have a really strong and positive plan on how to develop my career and I am much more aware of the need to check in and support myself.’ Laura, Brighton
‘Jo is both a passionate and highly skilled coach. Since meeting Jo, several years ago, she has been on a journey to learn, improve and hone her skills in this field; she provides a great experience for anyone she works with. Jo completed her training for ILM level 3 and progressed to ILM level 5 showing her commitment to further learning and improvement and demonstrating her ability to work effectively with managers and leaders. She has grown into an accomplished, insightful and skilled professional who I would recommended.’ Julia Miles, Managing Director Quality Education & Development
‘I’m now much clearer about what I want from my future career.’
‘Jo’s coaching style was absolutely brilliant. She always seemed to use exactly the right activity and technique to allow and shape the thought process at the time. I always left feeling a sense of clarity.’
‘I have found the whole coaching experience so helpful and beneficial. I have really enjoyed every session.’
‘I feel that I have made progress towards my goals in that I understand myself better in the context of my role and the goals I am trying to achieve.’
‘Jo was amazing. I felt she took me on such a positive journey.’
‘Thank you so much it’s been brilliant, way beyond my expectations.’
How does coaching work?
1. We start with a FREE 30 minute Starter Session where we find out what you want to achieve and how coaching with me can help you to get it.
2. My 4 Step Programme for Getting What You Want is tailored to you as a unique person through online, telephone or in person coaching sessions.
3. We have a free 30 minute telephone support call between package sessions.
4. You take away an action plan for getting what you want.
Session information:
Online coaching United Kingdom and worldwide.
Telephone coaching United Kingdom.
Face to face coaching across the South East (subject to COVID-19 restrictions).
WHAT’S NEXT?
Contact me at murfinjo@live.com to find out how my programme can help you to get what you want.
Connect: LinkedIn
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