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Bespoke 1:1 CEO, Director and Partner Mentoring

1:1 in-person executive mentoring supports forward momentum in targeted ways that generates business growth.

Available online and in person, our well-developed approach is equally suitable for experienced or newly promoted leaders. Whether you are leading a company, project or board, or in finance, communications or operations, we personally tailor our support to suit you and your particular goals. Whether you have a specific quality you want to develop, such as assertiveness or public speaking, or to fine tune the way you direct others or focus your business strategy, the support sessions are configured to equip you with tried and tested tools and techniques.  These empower your personal and corporate growth in ways that elevate your team, and move your business forward.

Themes raised are astonishingly diverse - we've compiled a manual covering 1,800 pages though more commonly raise themes include:

ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS WHILST REMAINING AUTHENTIC

  • Self-awareness plus the awareness of others
  • How to recognise different ‘language filters’, and what to do about it
  • How to increase your personal impact
  • How to speak in ways that truly chime with one’s audience
  • How to read 'non-verbal' communication
  • The importance of ‘Adult-to-Adult’ communication
  • Communicating with emotional intelligence

ACCELERATING BUSINESS GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY

  • Business development/laser-focused 'rainmaking' - the art of getting to "yes"
  • Refinement of your sales and pitching processes
  • How to develop key 'juggernaut' clients
  • Refinement of your branding values plus key messaging
  • Value of storytelling in sales and marketing
  • New approaches to productive networking
  • Win-Win negotiation technique 
  • How to fix your leaking ‘profitability bucket’

WASTE OF TIME MANAGEMENT

  • Making better use of your time through streamlined prioritisation
  • How to delegate effectively
  • ACTION planning
  • How to run effective and engaging meetings

VISION: STRATEGIC AND COMMERCIAL THINKING

  • Analysis of organisational risk and what to do about it
  • How to define and communicate your vision
  • Departmental five-year plans
  • Problem solving tools and techniques to help you take sound decisions
  • Organisational culture, change and turnarounds
  • Business sales/acquisitions/mergers

LEADERSHIP: THE POWER OF INFLUENCE

  • How to create a 'balanced scorecard'
  • Empowering all staff to meet or exceed your stretching business goals
  • ‘Solution focused conversations’ aka difficult conversations
  • Executive focus and performance/ top talent re-engagement
  • Influencing and persuading others in appropriate ways
  • Holding your colleagues accountable though timely direct feedback
  • Talent acquisition and retention
  • Top team alignment/conflict handling
  • Handing greater autonomy to your team leaders
  • Meaningful annual appraisals plus half-yearly feedback – focus on ‘behavioural’ change
  • Identifying ways that you are inadvertently blocking the career progression of your colleagues
  • Public speaking including your ability to address larger audiences
  • How to put damaging past events behind you

SELF CONFIDENCE: SELF-BELIEF PLUS MANAGING STRESS/PRESSURE

  • Keeping your cool
  • Bolstering your resilience
  • Seizing opportunities and not missing out
  • Assertiveness/less hesitancy
  • How to manage imposter syndrome

TEAMWORKING AND PROGRESSION

  • How to build and lead teams effectively
  • The great Work-From-Home debate - is there any benefit for your organisation?
  • Influencing and persuading others in appropriate ways
  • Earning trust by projecting integrity and consistency
  • Remotivating and retaining valued colleagues at a time when good people are getting poached

ACHIEVING A MORE SUSTAINABLE LIFE/WORK BALANCE

  • Career development
  • How to reduce the risk of burnout
  • How to temper work addiction
  • Successful interview techniques that are proven to work
  • How to write a sharp CV and covering letter

OvationXL’s UNIQUE promise

We pledge the unequivocal offer to take calls and emails in between sessions plus up to five years after the mentoring ends at no further cost to your or your organisation, up and till such point that we decide that a follow-up session would be best (only triggered once by us in the last 15 years).