Kate Bishop Coaching

Business Management, Business Coach & Mentor, Life Coach

Hackney & Newham

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London
South West England, England
South East England, England

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When I asked Kate to help me getting prepared for a presentation I didn’t know she’s got expertise in coaching and self confidence training, and I definitely...

- July 2019

Leadership Confidence Kate Hughes, Princes Trust What was our goal? Kate wanted to be more confident in herself as a leader and to prove to the organisation, her peers and senior stakeholders that she is ready for more responsibility and progression. What were our challenges? Kate admitted that she needed to improve her self esteem and had several areas which had been highlighted to her to work on including strategic thinking, delegating rather than doing, confidence when presenting and leading meetings and to show a calm exterior when very busy or stressed. What was our outcome? By reflecting on what Kate had achieved to date, evaluating where she was currently to where she wanted to be in her career and taking into account the lifestyle she wanted to live we worked intensely on Kate’s inner belief and self esteem. At the end of our coaching journey Kate said “Having dedicated time to regularly reflect on my interactions with colleagues and that I often already know the answer on what I can do to improve or develop, but it’s about having discipline and consistently applying what I’ve learnt in the right place, at the right time Having a coach who understood my barriers and was flexible yet structured to make sure we had a productive conversation I now feel more confident in my abilities and have a clear picture of my strengths as well as the areas of improvement where I need to direct my energy I am also more comfortable discussing the benefits coaching has had on me personally”

Work Life Balance Miia Koponen, Elan London What was our goal? Miia ultimately wanted a new role that was fulfilling and stimulating as well as enabling her to have a healthy work life balance. What were our challenges? Miaa was concerned that she would not find a role that would sustain her lifestyle as well as allow her that balance she craved. What was our outcome? “I would absolutely recommend Kate as a coach to anyone who is looking to make changes in their lives and in fact have already recommended her to a friend of mine.” Ultimately, Miia did find a new role, yet more importantly she realised that she was in control of the balance in her life and made several significant changes to live in a healthier and more holistic way. This gave her the space to find more opportunities in her work, her financial situation and her approach to relationships. By becoming more self aware Miia realised the need for structure in her life, to let go of her inner critic and to ensure that the decisions she makes bring her high value.

Career Confidence & Progression Kate Brown, MET Office What was our goal? To improve Kate’s confidence so she felt able to challenge her superiors in an appropriate way, to make her voice and opinions heard, to ask questions in meetings and to network for progression opportunities. What were our challenges? Kate felt nervous when speaking out and, ultimately, was unable to have conversations about her progression with her management team. What was our outcome? Through our coaching and by gently challenging Kate to be held accountable, she initiated and held several tricky and scary conversations resulting in her asking for a secondment to another team in an elevated role where she has now secured a full time position. She found ways in which to have conversations with senior managers and to speak up that did not leave her paralyzed with fear. “As a result of Kate's coaching I feel much more empowered in my career, feeling that I am now in control and have options within work that I am actively following up.”

Career Change to Freelancer Rob Varney, Noodle Studio What was our goal? Rob had 2 goals to focus on - to understand his priorities with his businesses and to see how these aligned with his life goals and then to create a viable business plan for a start up property business along with freelance design work. What were our challenges? Starting two businesses at once and ensuring both received the adequate amount of attention, focus and energy for them to successfully start and grow. What was our outcome? Rob realised that he would have to dedicate more time and focus on his property business to have tangible results, yet he put in place solid plans for this. He excelled at hitting his targets with his design business resulting in creating a motivating career with clarity, gaining greater confidence in his abilities and joy in his work.

Leadership & Communication Emily Wallace, MET Office What was our goal? Emily wanted to improve communication with her team after her recent promotion as was finding it difficult to delegate tasks fully. What were our challenges? The team Emily is managing contains a variety of skill sets and level of experience which was daunting to her. She felt she lacked confidence in how to communicate in certain ways so was unable to delegate as much as she needed to leading to her feeling overwhelmed and anxious. What was our outcome? There were several as Emily realised she needed different communication techniques with each team member and once she began to have consistent and thorough 1 on 1’s delegation became easier as she could explain each area thoroughly. As well as improving her managing style, Emily felt her fear around the lack of perfection on delegated tasks subsided and that she was listening to each team member with more empathy.

Expertise

Confidence coaching
Business Coaching
Career Coaching
Career Change
Redundancy Coaching
Wellbeing Coaching
Wellness
workplace wellbeing
Workplace Stress
Workshop Facilitation
Leadership coaching
Work-life balance

Summary

I'm a personal development consultant and facilitator who specialises in career confidence and employee wellbeing.

My aim is to make everyone’s Monday feel as great as Fridays - but how?

Firstly - by having a job or career that we actually want to get out of bed for!

Through coaching with me, my clients discover what they really want to do in their careers and with their lives.

Secondly - by having the courage to take risks to achieve all we want to do.

I enable and embolden my clients to create a manageable action plan for them to start living their life’s purpose.

And thirdly - by being well at work and in our lives - whether that is decreasing stress, having a supportive network in our workplaces or having a bespoke well being programme that works for the entire organisation.

Employee Health & Happiness are top of the agenda when I work with businesses - without a team working productively and coherently together a business will invariably flounder.

As a fully certified Life & Business coach I work with individuals and teams to gain, grow and maintain their inner confidence and self-esteem.

For many of my clients their jobs and lives are intrinsically linked and they desire to gain more work life balance to do the things they love, to switch off, to minimise stress and overwhelm. They achieve this with me as I am completely focused on them their needs.

I work with businesses to create bespoke and tailored Workplace Wellbeing programmes leading to improved employee health and happiness. This directly improves team communication, productivity and proactive practices.

Through workshops on well-being, confidence & impact, resilience & stress management employees feel empowered, valued and motivated. Thereby, business absenteeism and recruitment costs are reduced and productivity is immediately increased.

Rather than offering advice to clients I ask powerful questions resulting in deep self-realisation about who they are and what they want to be, to do and to have in their lives.

I challenge clients to discover what they really want from their careers, relationships and lives. This leads to fun, challenging and motivating sessions with highly satisfied clients walking away with clarity, ambition and action plans to progress.