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Paula Hutchings – A Master in Executive Coaching: Builds Strength to Leornian’s Business

Paula Hutchings is certainly ‘hands on’ as she facilitates a number of coaching programmes in addition to being a Leornian business partner. As part of completing AMEC (Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching) which Paula is on track to complete by early 2012, she has now been fully accredited by Ashridge Business School as an Executive Coach.

The programme is designed around five modules leading to recognition as an Ashridge Accredited Coach and the Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching.

Ashridge has earned its reputation as one of Europe’s leading business schools. They work in partnership with some of the world’s leading business organisations in tackling the complex challenges they face, such as formulating and implementing strategic development, leadership and change. Ultimately helping people and organisations to be the best they can be.

Ashridge offers state-of-the-art and coherent models and perspectives advocating a broadly humanistic, relational approach to coaching, with the emphasis on self-directed learning by the coaching client. The coach acts as a guide and facilitator rather than as expert advisor.

Relational coaching means understanding that the relationship between coach and client is at the heart of effective coaching and is the central vehicle for learning and change. A key understanding that informs all our coaching contracts is that each relationship is specific to a particular organisational context.

We are actively growing this arm of our business and have a growing team of Ashridge accredited executive coaches. If you are interested in seeking best practices in coaching please email Paula at paula@leornianconsulting.co.uk or click here for more information about Leornian's coaching approach.

Further Accreditation

Paula has recently been accredited as a practitioner in Relationship Awareness Theory (Strengths Deployment Inventory).

Relationship Awareness Theory is founded on four key assumptions:

  1. We act in the way we do because we want to feel good about ourselves
  2. We tend to take two different approaches to life
  3. We naturally tend to perceive the behaviour of others from our own perspective
  4. A personal "weakness" is simply the overdoing or misapplying of a personal "strength"

Leornian's expert use of this powerful feedback tool can immeasurably improve team performance and enhance individual confidence.