Start Making a Difference offers a straightforward coaching service to senior professionals, executives and directors. We enable our clients to achieve maximum personal performance and to get more from those around them. We ensure:
- Challenging and stimulating interventions that bring clarity to thinking in a non-confrontational environment
- Honest, objective and constructive feedback
- Clear goal setting with agreed and measurable outputs
- Regular defined periods of uninterrupted thinking or reflecting time to focus on individual or organisational needs
- A safe and trustworthy environment to work through difficult issues and test out ideas
By examining the interaction of thoughts, beliefs and instinctive reactions involved in management we deliver benefits both to individuals and their companies or partnerships:
- The ability to differentiate between instinctive and rational thinking to make more effective decisions
- Greater strategic clarity for professionals, managers and staff
- Improved communication of key messages to chosen markets
- A deeper understanding of and better insight into the goals/objectives of colleagues and clients
- Action and results planning focused on the best interests of employees and the partnership
- An increased use of objective feedback to defuse difficult situations
- The ability to ask questions that challenge and test existing hierarchies, understanding or beliefs
Our approach combines business skills obtained from working with leading companies together with organisational/coaching theory and practice. The unique value of our work is its ability to raise levels of personal insight to develop exemplary leadership skills in a commercial and professional context.
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Sarah Mellor, the founder, has over 20 years experience in business working as a banking analyst, researcher, management consultant and marketing strategist in leading organisations including
- The Bank of England
- The British Library
- Ernst & Young
- Cambridge Technology Consulting
- J O Hambro Investment Management
- The Waterfront Group
Sarah has BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy) accredited post graduate qualifications in counselling, systemic therapy and performance improvement/psychological coaching and offers a comprehensive portfolio of business skills that adds value to clients. |
“Start Making a Difference has given me a greater of understanding of my colleagues and asks questions which my colleagues never seem to. I believe that there is always room for improvement but finding an executive coach who truly believes and practices the same is a breath of fresh air.”
Jonathan Stokes CEO, JBS Associates International Executive Search
“Working with Sarah has been a revelation. She has helped me to achieve clarity during a period of considerable change in both my own role and financial markets in general. Our sessions have always been open, honest and productive. I always leave feeling that real progress has been made. Sarah is always professional, reliable and at times uncomfortably insightful, but never judgmental. The process has helped me to determine and focus on the priorities for the business and develop strategies for achieving our objectives. You do have to engage in the process to get the maximum return back but doing so produces measurable results, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Sarah to colleagues or fellow professionals.“
Andrew Steel CEO J O Hambro Investment Management
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