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HBMC’s executive coaching and mentoring is developed to suit each individual client.  This service supports and encourages managers to make the most of their potential, to develop their skills, to improve their performance and to realise their personal goals.

The process seeks to energise, to be reflective, to tackle obstacles and clear a path ahead. Discussions are strictly confidential. Space for reflection is very precious. 

Hilary Barnard’s coachees represent a wide cross-section of male and female managers, each with very different life experiences and personal circumstances.  They have used the service to manage their own learning by exploring - for example - personal development, organisational change, interagency working, strategic choices, conflict management and resolution, governance, career development and interpersonal relationships. 
 
The benefits
Perhaps you’re weighing up the benefits of mentoring and coaching to you and your organisation?

The support of this service can help you:

  • Fast-track solutions to issues and challenges
  • Resolve crisis situations
  • Win key debates and make significant progress in your career
  • Build confidence and effectiveness in tackling difficult partnership and staffing issues
  • Kick-start the management team into joint working on critical issues

A number of clients are long-term HBMC coachees.  They and their organisations have benefited considerably from improved motivation, retention, focus and performance.

What's expected of a coach?
Being coached or mentored is demanding.  The mentee needs a commitment to reflect, learn and act. S/he must be open and honest about needs and problems.  S/he will define what should be addressed and how the mentoring sessions can achieve the goals.

How the service works
An initial introductory session between the coachee and Hilary Barnard helps both sides to establish a productive relationship with a high level of mutual respect.  This first session sets the contract for working together.  If the relationship shows promise, the coachee will normally make a commitment to six or eight subsequent sessions.
 
Each session normally lasts two hours or half a day.  Exceptionally, there may be full-day sessions.  The consultancy does not offer one-hour sessions as these do not provide sufficient time for reflection and focus.  The coaching takes place at 24 Leighton Grove, away from the pressures of the mentee’s office, in a relaxed and reflective environment.  Sessions are designed to fit into busy diaries and are normally held every month, six weeks or two months.

Support on the phone or by email is often provided between sessions.  Coachees may also seek the consultancy’s views on draft documents and other papers.

About Hilary Barnard
Hilary offers the coachee an environment which is supportive in times of stress, challenging when it needs to be, and stimulating in exploring different perspectives on complex issues and problems.
 
Hilary Barnard can empathise with the challenges and dilemmas coachees face, having himself been a senior manager and a Trustee of several organisations. He has run HBMC's consultancy since 1991, focusing on strategic change and on management and organisational development. 
 
Fees and terms
If you are seeking a coach or mentor, please phone +44 (0)20 7284 1566 to discuss your needs and the potential benefits of engaging HBMC’s executive coaching and mentoring service.  At this point there is no obligation, but you may agree to an initial meeting.

Please note: Hilary will only provide a coaching service where there is no possible conflict of interest.

The first face-to-face meeting is a two-hour session, for which a one-off fee is charged. This session is organised on the basis that a continuing coaching relationship is likely. 

Normally, the consultancy then seeks the coachee’s agreement to a block of six or eight two-hour sessions.  This approach is taken for five main reasons:
  1. It underlines commitment on both sides and the value of the sessions.  From experience, this strengthens the relationship between coach and coachee.
  2. The coaching process is often concerned with complex and long-term change.  This is the work of several sessions.
  3. Effectiveness of the process is best judged over several sessions.
  4. Trust and confidence in the coaching process require more than a casual relationship where each side has no clear expectation whether the mentoring relationship will continue beyond the next booked session.
  5. The limited number of sessions per block maintains some flexibility for the coachee to seek alternative arrangements if they so wish. The invoice for the block of (6-8) sessions is normally presented after the first session in this series.  Payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date.
References are available on request.