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Ian Coxan Coaching
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Biography
My coaching philosophy is based on my belief in the importance of raising awareness in the client, and that this is the key to developing the potential or unlocking blockages the client may not be aware of. One of the key aspects of my role as a coach is to facilitate heightened awareness in clients of the lens through which they see the world and themselves. Within the context of my coaching interventions, it is my intent to create a learning and development space for effective coaching by using a range of skills from the coaching skills spectrum.
My warm and calming presence helps create a safe environment that allows for insight, understanding, support and challenge. I apply a duty of care in the coaching arena to ensure that any challenge is appropriate for the client. I work collaboratively with clients to enable them to focus on what they really want in order to perform more effectively both professionally and personally.
Two of my core beliefs are that:
Early in my career in outdoor education, I realised that the adventure provided a medium for individual or team growth, developing soft skills and behaviours. I recognised that this came from my ability to facilitate growth through reflective practice, reviewing the task or experience and enabling individuals or teams to transfer learning back to their real or everyday environment. This showed me that with the right words and encouragement people can exceed their own expectations.
I have always been driven to understand and improve how people and groups function and get work done. I help individuals develop their skills and performance by collaborating on existing issues. I can apply my experience and knowledge almost immediately to the individuals unique needs without adding to their already full plate. Competent in supporting both organisational and individual development, I add special value during change and transition, supporting people to adapt into new roles and responsibilities.
My experience to date has equipped me with a multitude of relevant skills in not only outdoor leadership, but also in running core areas of any operational setup. Success in achieving results has been defined by my progressive mind-set, sound problem-solving skills, strong decision-making ability, and effective follow-through. Equally important is my passion for teamwork. A lifelong involvement with teams and expeditions makes me a firm believer in the power of teamwork, and I am an avid supporter of these principles in the workplace. My open and inclusive management style and my commitment to developing staff arise from my belief in teamwork. I feel strongly that staff members are an intrinsic part of the success I have had in achieving outcomes for stakeholders.
When reflecting on my life, a key thread is my desire to learn either formally or informally, sharing what I have learned and supporting others in their development to realise their full potential. My recent reflections have highlighted that I have always strived to help individuals and teams to understand their operating styles so they could get better results. I have experience as a practitioner, line manager, and consultant with a diverse professional background in the public, private and the third sector developing resilience and managing risk. My work has enabled me to experience facilitating work with frontline staff through to leadership teams at Boardroom level.
My warm and calming presence helps create a safe environment that allows for insight, understanding, support and challenge. I apply a duty of care in the coaching arena to ensure that any challenge is appropriate for the client. I work collaboratively with clients to enable them to focus on what they really want in order to perform more effectively both professionally and personally.
Two of my core beliefs are that:
- I understand that no single approach is the right one for every individual, coaching allows you to find your own way.
- I strongly believe that everyone can achieve more than they think they can or do.
Early in my career in outdoor education, I realised that the adventure provided a medium for individual or team growth, developing soft skills and behaviours. I recognised that this came from my ability to facilitate growth through reflective practice, reviewing the task or experience and enabling individuals or teams to transfer learning back to their real or everyday environment. This showed me that with the right words and encouragement people can exceed their own expectations.
I have always been driven to understand and improve how people and groups function and get work done. I help individuals develop their skills and performance by collaborating on existing issues. I can apply my experience and knowledge almost immediately to the individuals unique needs without adding to their already full plate. Competent in supporting both organisational and individual development, I add special value during change and transition, supporting people to adapt into new roles and responsibilities.
My experience to date has equipped me with a multitude of relevant skills in not only outdoor leadership, but also in running core areas of any operational setup. Success in achieving results has been defined by my progressive mind-set, sound problem-solving skills, strong decision-making ability, and effective follow-through. Equally important is my passion for teamwork. A lifelong involvement with teams and expeditions makes me a firm believer in the power of teamwork, and I am an avid supporter of these principles in the workplace. My open and inclusive management style and my commitment to developing staff arise from my belief in teamwork. I feel strongly that staff members are an intrinsic part of the success I have had in achieving outcomes for stakeholders.
When reflecting on my life, a key thread is my desire to learn either formally or informally, sharing what I have learned and supporting others in their development to realise their full potential. My recent reflections have highlighted that I have always strived to help individuals and teams to understand their operating styles so they could get better results. I have experience as a practitioner, line manager, and consultant with a diverse professional background in the public, private and the third sector developing resilience and managing risk. My work has enabled me to experience facilitating work with frontline staff through to leadership teams at Boardroom level.
Qualifications
- Pg. Cert Coaching & Mentoring (Level 7) - Sheffield Hallam University
- ILM Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management - Leeds Beckett University
- ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring - ILM
CPD
I am committed to ensuring and promoting excellence within my coaching and mentoring practice, I adhere to the elements and principles from the ethical code provided by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Code of Ethics for coaching and mentoring. I believe this code of practice sets the expectation of competence, context, boundary management, integrity and professionalism and provides appropriate guidelines, for supervision, accountability and enforceable standards of conduct giving clarity of how I am expected to act, behave and perform when working with clients. I attend regular supervision
- I am member of the 3 Shires Coaching Group
- I attend regular CPD meetings with the Sheffield Coaching Exchange
- I am a member of the Sheffield Hallam coaching and mentoring research group (CMRU) which meets regularly to discuss research projects.
Professional Memberships
- European Mentoring Coaching Council: In the process of applying for Senior Practitioner accreditation
- Institute of Leadership and Management
Testimonials
I have no doubt that the coaching has helped me immeasurably in terms of coping with a very stressful period in my working life and Ian showed considerable empathy but at the same time posed exactly the sort of constructive challenge I needed to shift me from the “state of mind” I was in to the “state of mind” I need to be in to face the future with optimism and hope.
Mark B.
As a coach, you have great qualities. Reassuring and making me feel that I was the most important person at that time, as a listener you let me talk and open up and as a developer, you made me ‘challenge’ my own thought processes and perceptions. You also gave some of yourself which actually made the sessions of more value to me, a two way process of understanding, that it wasn’t just a job to you and you wanted to get the best out of me.
Anon North East Lincolnshire Council.
One of the most powerful sessions was when we were discussing the relationship I had with the wider team. I was struggling with their expectations of me and Ian helped me turn this around and see that I had created these expectations and subsequently a subtle change in my approach to them brought about a more respectful relationship in which I felt more able to delegate tasks which they accepted with a different attitude altogether.
Sue
I felt the coaching was of huge benefit in helping me look at my general job role after restructure and enabled me to allow myself to reflect on the way I worked and the way forward within the new structure not looking back but looking forward.
Families First Practitioner, North East Lincolnshire Council
(Ian) always made me feel relaxed and never hurried through these sessions. Ian was not afraid of using silence with me so I did not feel hurried to say something for the sake of saying something to allow me the space to think. I felt really listened too but he did not tell me what to do but asked me before he gave me any advice or examples to prompt my further thinking and solutions. As this was a highly emotive time for me he allowed me the space and time to express my thoughts and was very patient with me which also supported me in motivating myself to explore my next career moves. Through effective listening and communication he supported me to identify my own goals and targets. Throughout my sessions he facilitated a greater self-awareness in myself around in being able to recognise where I was in relation to change management. He was not directive and through this I was able to explore my own values and beliefs and their impact on me. Overall, I felt he had supported me through the coaching to be able to move forward without feeling bitter about the process of the redundancy so I could start to plan my future and not hold onto the past which I could not change.
Berni H