Testimonials from others who have completed Coaching programmes with Ann:
"Thank you for your great support during a tricky part of my life. I could not have gone through it without you."
"Big Thank You for all the encouragement and coaching you have given me throughout the last year."
"I used to be programmed to worry and think negatively, after coaching with you I no longer think that way!"
Coaching
Coaching Enhances Individual and Business Performance
What is coaching?
Coaching is...
"Unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them"
Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game of Work
"...about helping someone to get the best performance out of themselves – the potential for which was already there"
Sir John Whitmore - Performance Coach
"...about releasing potential and generating responsibility. Coaching heightens and raises awareness to achieve greater performance"
Ann Skidmore - Professional Coach
Who uses a coach?
- Corporate Managers who need to deal with an ever-increasing stressful, challenging and competitive workplace
- Entrepreneurs and Business Owners who need to realise their dreams and exchange ideas for profit
- Private individuals facing issues or changes in their life who wish to make the right decisions to move forward
What does a coach Do?
- Raises your level of personal awareness to reach a clarity regarding situations in both your personal and work life
- Helps you tune in better to yourself and others
- Helps you set and reach better goals through the creation of a plan of action
- Provides the tools, structure and support for you to accomplish more
- Provides a confidential and independent 'sounding board'
How can my career or business benefit from being coached by Ann?
Coaching...
- Helps you set better goals and then to reach those goals
- Enables you to do more than you would have done on your own
- Focuses you and your business better to move quickly and produce excellent results
- Helps you to identify and focus on your strengths in order that you can develop to your full potential
- Provides the tools, support and structure to accomplish more e.g. managing your time and stress, developing your skills in managing people and resources and enabling you to deliver effective presentations in selling and promoting yourself and your business
Ann Skidmore is...
- A business psychologist
- A Managing Director
- An accredited and professional Life Coach, Corporate and Executive Coach
- A Fellow of the Coaching Academy
- A lead trainer for the Coaching Academy
- A Corporate Consultant
- An experienced Businesswoman
Particular areas of Ann’s expertise:
- Business Psychology
- Life Coaching, Executive and Corporate Coaching
- Mentoring
- Management Development
- Organisational Development
- Neurolinguistic Programming
- Designing and delivering training and development programmes
- Designing and delivering assessment centres and development centres
- Qualified to administer and give feedback on psychometric instruments such as FIRO-B, Myers Briggs, IQ tests, TMS etc. (qualified with British Psychological Society in Level A and Level B certificates of competence)