For me, Ruth enables and facilitates people to
make the most amazing personal transformations through practical
skill and incredible intuition
Sales & Marketing Director, Mulberry
Working with Ruth gives
me real space to be fully myself, to formulate and believe my own vision
with tremendous clarity. Coaching is absolutely not self-indulgent,
rather an exciting journey of discovering for myself how to think ahead
and plan the future I want through a process that is positive,
challenging and thought provoking. At critical times in my career,
Ruth
has beenthe angel at my shoulder, providing a completely supportive
space for me to get clear and determine my best way forward.
Board
Director, Walker Greenbank plc
Coaching with Ruth Paris
Coaching
enables you to sustain success and develop
gravitas through engaging with
a process of intense personal development that has a
remarkable impact on critical areas of performance:
Executive Rescue - intensive help for high
profile individuals experiencing crisis
Coaching with Ruth Paris builds gravitas and results
Talented people sometimes find they reach a frustrating
plateau in their careers, typified by a sense of
inadequacy, low energy and stress. You have
demonstrated your potential, proved your ability and
are now expected to continue to grow and deliver
ever-increasing results. Without skilful coaching,
this time can be very difficult, even within a
supportive environment. This is when burn-out
may become a real danger. The pressure is on to
deliver and to keep upping the game - what was a triumph
last year becomes the benchmark for this year. Achievement becomes a
paradox, entailing escalating imperatives to perform
even better.
In other words, success can lock you into a very
uncomfortable and lonely double-bind.
Skilled coaching provides a facilitated pathway that
takes you beyond this scenario. Through a kind yet
challenging process you will identify and clear blocks,
find and change unhelpful patters of thinking or
behaviour and gain the
skills and resilience you need to resume an upward
trajectory, both in your career and in your ability not
just to cope, but to take ownership of your choices.
Ruth's coaching delivers measurable value, a
typical recent client result being to grow their
business by over 50% in one year.
Truly effective people have a certain quality that
cannot be captured or defined, but which is instantly
recognised by those they meet. This is variously
described as gravitas, charisma, authority, presence or self-assurance.
Developing and being genuinely congruent with this
elusive quality is extremely powerful in various
important dimensions of relationship:
With oneself - feeling internally aligned /
personally coherent, sometimes described as 'being
comfortable in one's own skin', particularly in
challenging circumstances
With others within the organisation - an
intrinsic characteristic of powerful leadership
With clients and partners - essential for being
perceived as a strong ambassador for your business
It cannot be achieved by learning new behaviours or
techniques; this is something that has to be nurtured from
within and emerges naturally over time as you engage
more fully with yourself through sophisticated and emotionally intelligent coaching.
Working
with Ruth allows this transformative process to evolve
in parallel with a new level of mastery of the skills
required for you to grow your
effectiveness in more challenging roles.
Talented managers need to make the transition from
'doing' to 'thinking' - engaging in a more strategic
mindset that enables them to stay focused on what's
really important, clarify the sequence of actions
required and then ensure effective implementation.
This demands a significant shift in how they think, moving
from a vertical, silo-type mentality to a horizontal
view of the business and its markets. This entails
a different level of ownership of the business and a
strong commercial orientation. Coaching provides
the means to stand back and learn the subtle yet
powerful tools that allow this change.
You cannot not communicate; you cannot not influence!
Even keeping a low profile is a communication and
affects other people. The most successful
individuals and teams are those who take responsibility
for the effects of how they communicate, learning the
secrets of clear communication, clean influence and the
power of entraining others to action in service of
clearly defined outcomes. Ruth works with the
unique strengths and abilities of the individual to take them to a new level of effectiveness
and confidence.
