One-to-One Executive Development: Why choose Oasis?
Talent at executive level is a precious commodity, and a major investment for any organisation.
The business case for nurturing that talent through One-to-One Executive Development is well established.
A 2011 Learning and Talent Development survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that organisations rated coaching by external consultants as the most effective learning and development practice for leaders.
Our work is underpinned by the belief that everyone has the resources to become more effective in their life and work.
We will work in partnership with you to develop your skills and understanding, reducing your reliance on external support.
Our peer-based, experiential approach empowers people to own their ongoing self-development and builds their capacity to anticipate their future needs. Being a collaborative and shared process, it extends naturally to those with whom they work and live.
One-to-One Executive Development offers efficiency and value for money.
Individual Benefits
For individuals tasked with a leadership role, finding time and the right environment to consider the bigger issues, make significant transitions or develop new ways of working is a constant challenge.
Committing to One-to-One Executive Development ensures that you:
- benefit from dedicated time, a confidential setting and the support of an experienced practitioner to get to the heart of even the most complex professional and personal issues
- make time for reflection and feedback
- develop yourself in your approach to leadership, learning and life
- achieve new clarity, see issues in a fresh way and change limiting perceptions
- can rehearse possible options and consider consequences
- have the strategies to work with your own processes, insights, challenges and intuition.
Organisational Benefits
As well as improving individual performance, One-to-One Executive Development:
- addresses the challenges facing the most visible and influential people in the organisation
- refreshes mindsets, fostering creativity and innovation
- increases the quality of engagement with key issues, freeing people to ‘think out loud’ about factors that are affecting their performance and proactively address them
- enables working at depth, to accelerate learning
- identifies key organisational trends, conflicts and questions
- aligns organisational values and strategic thinking to practice
- emphasises practical application by providing support over time, embedding the learning in ‘live’ issues faced by the organisation
- helps the organisation realise its investment in other training or development processes
- actively helps key people re-focus and re-engage in times of stress or organisational change, maintaining optimum performance and contributing to senior-level retention.
What our clients say about One-to-One Executive Development
- Executive Development has had a positive impact on performance, both mine and others, through how I communicate and operate
- Executive Development has helped me consider questions from a more long-term, strategic perspective
- Through Executive Development I have learnt to address my own challenges and questions
- Executive Development has given me the courage to face underlying patterns of behaviour that get in my way
- Executive Development has helped me improve my human relations skills and the development of others
- Executive Development has enhanced a more rewarding relationship with colleagues
- Executive Development has helped me learn how to identify and act on my own development needs
- Executive Development has built my confidence and improved my ability to act
- Through Executive Development I have become more effective and assertive in my ways of working, and more conflict-resilient
- Executive Development has given me a greater self-awareness and has helped me gain new perspectives
- I have acquired new skills and abilities with Executive Development
- Executive Development has helped me develop greater agility in relation to change
- Through Executive Development I have increased my tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity.