Regarding the journey together, I have really appreciated your methods to let me discover and think about a current situations. Your questions have helped me to figure out what was the true point I wanted to solve. Importantly to put words in front of feelings, I have seen the impact of this ability in a team. The exercises between two sessions were a perfect way to practice and to learn. At the beginning of the journey, I was a bit closed to my emotions but now I have more conscious of them. Still an on going job Regarding you as a coach, I have really appreciated the fact that there is no judgement during a session. So I have always felt in a safe environment to share. It is quite rare in a business environment to be able to step back and reveal our current struggles. Thank you for this. Additionally, I have enjoyed that you shared methods and theory around concepts, it really helps to visualize how I can grow and it has opened new perspectives. The last but not least, I have valued your last sentence of each session to have no judgement on an upcoming situation, to let it come.

Regarding the journey together, I have really appreciated your methods to let me discover and think about a current situations. Your questions have helped me to figure out what was the true point I wanted to solve. Importantly to put words in front of feelings, I have seen the impact of this ability in a team. The exercises between two sessions were a perfect way to practice and to learn. At the beginning of the journey, I was a bit closed to my emotions but now I have more conscious of them. Still an on going job Regarding you as a coach, I have really appreciated the fact that there is no judgement during a session. So I have always felt in a safe environment to share. It is quite rare in a business environment to be able to step back and reveal our current struggles. Thank you for this. Additionally, I have enjoyed that you shared methods and theory around concepts, it really helps to visualize how I can grow and it has opened new perspectives. The last but not least, I have valued your last sentence of each session to have no judgement on an upcoming situation, to let it come.

I wasn’t sure what to expect since it was my first-time coaching, but I really wanted to improve my ability to communicate better with large audiences as well as to be more articulate and confident presenting an argument in our organisation. I think it was an unfolding process. I didn’t improve immediately; but as the coaching journey developed, and I became aware of frameworks and strategies I could use to be a better communicator, I found my confidence levels increasing markedly. And it became less important to me about how I was perceived, but rather more about the tone and sincerity of the message I was trying to get across. I think the biggest value add for me with coaching is that it provides busy people with time to take a step back and to do some reflection. When engaging with Paul, I found it immensely useful that he would examine my though processes and motivations on a particular matter. More often than not I came away with a different view/approach, usually taking into consideration the need to understand how other people would perceive a particular message, and to be careful and sensitive to other people’s interpretations. I have learnt and what I have taken into my professional life is that I can change my mental models if I am open minded to better or superior mental models. Professionally, I think one must constantly question one’s own motives to ensure that biases do not cloud one’s thinking.

My impression of the coaching of the professional yet personal, valuable, and pleasant experience. I have gain of new insights about myself, my way of thinking, my behaviour, my communication and how that impact my own experience and my surroundings. We talked a lot about consciousness and state of mind in various contexts (“to me, by me, through me, as me” and the “conversational intelligence matrix”) and how that impacts me, my surroundings, and my experiences in life. I do reflect upon those insights more or less on a daily basis and it supports me greatly. I believe this higher level of consciousness manifest primarily in my changed way of thinking and changes in my behaviour. A few other notes would be the value of intrinsic motivation and my approach to “incompletions”. Paul is a very good listener. He has a very good ability to “unfold” a topic and guide me through my own thought process asking questions and gaining perspectives on things. His personal approach and persona made me feel very comfortable and I believe therefore the discussion reached a different depth also. I think coaching like this can (given you as a coachee are willing to open up, learn and change) have a profound impact on you as a person. I think the change that comes out of that will benefit the person in many different contexts, professionally and privately. I miss the bi-weekly conversations with Paul but I feel strengthened knowing I have new insights, knowledge and tools at my disposal going forward.

I found the experience of being coached by Paul extremely positive, not only did he help me to identify, frame and clarify key personal development objectives but also offered practical tools, techniques and suggestions to achieve them. Working with Paul has materially improved my ability to empower, develop and challenge my team, and myself, to become a better leader. The results of his coaching have been evident to myself, my team and colleagues. In particular, my relationship with my manager has dramatically improved which has enabled us to work much more effectively together to the benefit of the business. Paul’s objective approach, enabled me to see a clearer path in solving leadership issues and achieving my personal development goals. I believe that the techniques and approaches practiced and developed with him will enable me to continue to improve, even at after the coaching programme ends.