“Coaching gave me the tools and belief to be a more courageous leader in the workplace. As the Head of Sustainability for Jacobs it is my responsibility to ensure we leave a positive impact on the world around us through our work.

Contributing to this journey for our company requires strong leadership – to be bold and to inspire change. Coaching has helped me to hone these leadership skills and given me the belief to take bolder action. This has resulted in career progression, with a recent promotion but more importantly, Jacobs now has some of the most ambitious climate action commitments in the industry and is having a positive impact towards a sustainable future for all.”

Zoe Haseman
Vice President, Global Sustainability
for Jacobs Engineering

“We have covered so much in our sessions. From confidence, self esteem, optimism, positivity and leadership to name a few. I’ve found it challenging and emotional at times but overall it has been such a positive experience and something I am learning so much from.

If you are ever fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to be coached by Ros, my advice would be – grab it!”

Carolanne Lang
Head of Operations

“I have known Ros Taylor as a business coach for 15 years. The coaching and training Ros provided for the Wyeth Translational Medicine team has influenced and formed the foundation for my career. Allowing me to develop into my current leadership position.

I am very pleased to be working with Ros again as she brings her expertise and engaging personality to the leadership programme at the DDU.

Ros’ deep experience working with the Pharma Industry brings an essential angle to equip the team to take the DDU into the future.”

Catharine Goddard
University of Dundee

“The course exceeded my expectations across a number of areas and via several points. It made me completely re-evaluate my abilities as a coach and team leader. It generated a lot of quick but insightful self-evaluation techniques to assess where my strengths and weaknesses lie. There were also some clear and simple guidelines to approach coaching in a structured way.

I wanted the coaching skills to manage teams to excel, and I got a lot from the sessions to support some of what I’ve done well but also to rethink the way I’d approach things in other areas.

Both trainers were clearly skilled, very familiar with the course content but also able to adapt and deal with queries and cohort requests with ease and insight. It felt like we were dealing with experienced individuals who brought a wide breadth of knowledge but with a focus very much on people. A great course.”

Andrew Dunn
Tech Consultant at Banntech

“The Workshop has helped me understand more about the traits of my personality that drive my leadership, and how to make the most of these (and develop others)”

Director – Third Sector

“Really good enthusiastic, knowledgeable and insightful trainer with the ability to encourage peer to peer learning in the group. I would highly recommend this masterclass series.”

Director – Private Sector

CASE STUDY: JACOBS

Jacobs Engineering is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services.

Jacobs was the initiator of Team Coaching for their internal Process Group which was newly formed under Vice President Selma Hunter. She wanted her team to become highly skilled leaders, to deal effectively with the complexities of their projects, and with the dynamics of the expanding department as they won more business.

This process team which was comprised of engineers, at the top of their profession, were given psychometric profiles and 360° feedback from leader, team and colleagues.

This was the baseline for their professional development plans and also the overall Team Coaching programme. Because the team were scattered geographically on a variety of projects they came together for their leadership sessions one day every month. It was the mixture of individual coaching and team seminars that proved so successful.

As a result of the psychometric feedback, leadership interventions and team building achieved with regular meetings, this group exceeded their financial targets by a multiple of 4. And all of this with a new group just formed at the beginning of the year!

FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

“This was a great forum to bring team members together and get to grips with what makes teams work

“Team Coaching helped provide personal insights into yourself and fellow team members to create a better understanding of each other.”

“Very useful skills and techniques to use as leader of my own team.”

“We learned to be open and honest with each other.”