Leadership team coaching at Pembroke House

For the last few months I’ve been working with the 4 person leadership team at Pembroke House, a community based charity working in Walworth South London.

I was brought in to support how the leadership team might move to more collaborative ways of working and to review the structure they wre currently working under to make sure it served the organisations aims and purpose as well as possible. Alongside the sessions I have been doing with the leadership team, they have also been developing their strategy which has been a great source of ‘real topics’ to work with in my sessions.

The only thing I can really ask for when doing group coaching is for the participants to be open to giving the approaches I bring a go, and this team have done this with great enthusaism and commitment. We have experimented with:

• consent based decision making
• Retrospective approaches inluding drawing retrospectives to get to the feeling and experience of something rather than the cognitive likes and dislikes
• Conversations framework that supports pairs and groups to have difficult conversations
• Forcefields to uncover barriers to progress
• Lots of relfective listening
• Knowledge boards to dentify what still needs to be done
• Discussions about power and hierarchy

This kind of work is easily my favourite and most rewarding. We don’t quite know where we will end up with this work, but we are definitely getting somewhere!