Coaching & HR Consultancy

Everyone should have a coach, right?

Coaching is now recognised as one of the most powerful elements of business life.

As the pressure on executives becomes ever greater in terms of performance and time, many are turning to coaches for support.

Good coaching is motivational and inspirational and helps individuals to deal with immediate challenges as well as helping with planning and achieving medium to long-term goals.

The aim of executive coaching is to:

  • Enhance performance of the individual
  • Improve job satisfaction of the individual
  • Improve working relationships for the individual
  • Empower and motivate them to achieve greater success

An executive coach is an impartial listener, is unbiased, gives objective support and has no distractions or hidden agendas swayed by internal politics.

It is often more likely that an executive will open up to an outside source and admit to pressures they might not wish to concede to their peers.

I have worked with many executives who use the sessions as an opportunity to sound-off, explore different and new thoughts on their development and that of others in a safe environment which allows them to grow.

Team and performance coaching

Executive Coaching is available to individuals and teams.

The importance of motivation, leadership, team playing and communication skills are essential for effective team performance.

By developing greater understanding and awareness of the team dimension and the individual contribution of each team member, we can identify how this learning can be shaped to provide bespoke team coaching solutions using a variety of tools and tricks, with robust proven activities, the main aim being to facilitate and inspire change, growth, development and of course success.

HR

We can help with a HR gap analysis of your current people practices including and not limited to:-

  • Contracts of employment
  • Policies and procedures
  • Job descriptions and design
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Induction and onboarding
  • Absence management
  • Performance management
  • Training and development
  • Rewards and benefits
  • Succession planning and talent management
  • Values and culture
  • Employee relations
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About Lisa

I am Lisa Pierson, qualified Coach and trainer, based in England and Switzerland.  Moving You Forward was founded in 2005 when I started my coaching business with a passion to help people to be the best they can be, providing individual coaching to a variety of clients in many different professions and levels across the globe.

The opportunity to work closely with HR professionals, in organisations delivering coaching grew into providing training to help support teams and leaders to develop and grow.

Along the way I have added many items to my tool kit to provide a wide range of complimentary resources to my clients.

Always looking at how we can create the best learning experience and outcomes to suit the individuals aswell as the business.

Since the dreaded Covid pandemic, we have seen a massive shift in what is now needed by  employers to attract, retain and develop their people together with the new attitude  and expectation of employees and business owners to working life.

Moving You Forward is fully engaged in supporting individuals in their career development.

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Sarah McCormack

About Sarah

Sarah is a passionate, energetic and highly experienced HR practitioner, coach and trainer with a belief that organisational success is achieved through knowledgeable, motivated and engaged teams.

With over 25 years’ experience working in various strategic, developmental and HR business partnering roles Sarah’s experience is broad – an expert in all areas of the HR generalist spectrum including :-

  • Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding
  • Learning and Development
  • Succession Planning
  • Performance Management
  • Organisation Design and Change Management
  • Employee Relations – The Legal Framework / Managing Risk
  • Rewards and Benefits
  • Culture and Engagement

With an ability to quickly identify needs and gaps Sarah can build a targeted, commercial and holistic plan to move businesses forward with the objective of achieving success through a high-performance culture.

A confident and engaging communicator Sarah builds relationships quickly – her core values of integrity, honesty and authenticity means that she works with all stakeholders with a positive and open attitude – gaining the trust of teams throughout the organisation.

Sarah’s vast experience means that she will be carrying out a variety of activities from one day to the next!  There are no typical weeks’, but here is a snapshot! …

Monday – designing, delivering and facilitating a vision, purpose and values workshop with a leadership team – supporting them in understanding and agreeing their shared purpose and direction.

Tuesday – it’s all about leadership development for new managers – delivered in her own unique, engaging style!

Middle of the week – Wednesday – you might find Sarah working with Leadership Team building a People and Culture Strategy which will drive engagement across the business.

Thursday – creating a fit for purpose performance management process which Sarah will launch across the business – giving managers the confidence to have open, honest and engaging performance conversations with their teams.  Employees who understand the positive difference they are making in the business through clear objectives and purpose.

Friday already!  Before a well-deserved glass of red wine and her favourite Indian takeaway, Sarah’s focus could be on creating a resource plan including internal progression to support an organisation’s growth for the future.   Always focussed on the end in mind! There may also be coaching, and support needed for a manager who has a disciplinary to manage – building their skills and knowledge so that it is managed fairly and in line with statutory requirements.

Throughout the week there will be a number of coffee and catch-up opportunities with Lisa to talk through planned TalentPredix workshops and debriefs and to marvel at the impact it is having in organisations across the globe!

The weekend is for children’s activities.  Sarah spends time with her family and watches her son and daughter play in their football teams – cheering them on (embarrassingly) with passion!

Previous experience

Sarah worked in a large, fast paced, progressive national retailer in a number of HR and development roles – partnering with operational leaders to create and deliver robust, solid people strategies which consistently delivered excellent results.

Sarah started her career as a Training Officer after graduating as a teacher with a Post Graduate Certificate in Education and moved through a number of roles – Head Office HR Manager, Area HR Manager/ Business Partner, Regional Training Manager and Regional HR Manager.

During this time, Sarah was nominated for and won a number of external and internal awards.  She was a finalist for the Retail Week Rising Star Award twice – both as a HR Training Professional and a HR Professional. Sarah was recognised for her “engaging personality, coupled with her enthusiasm and excellent technical and operational skills, inspire all who work with her.”

Sarah led her own team of HR business partners across the country in delivering the overall organisational goals through people.

This provided Sarah with the experience and knowledge to build a team of HR Consultants and a first-class service to support SME’s across the country through the HR Consultancy she moved to after having her children.

Sarah now works as a HR Consultant independently and in collaboration with Lisa.  Her goal is to use all of her learnings, knowledge, experience and expertise to support businesses to build and engage high performing teams though a culture where all are encouraged to thrive and be the best that they can be.

Qualifications and key skills:

  • Chartered Member of the CIPD (Level 7) MCIPD
  • Practitioner and Partner TalentPredix Psychometric Tool
  • ILM accredited Coach
  • SHL OPQ Accreditation

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About Morelle

My background has always been within office support roles, before starting my core career in executive search recruitment across London. The world changing during the Covid pandemic sparked my Virtual Assistance business idea and I’ve never looked back. I relocated back home to Bournemouth and my Virtual Assistant team has grown from strength to strength – we assist a wide range of business in various ways and we absolutely love making a difference and supporting our clients with whatever they need!

GlowingCo is a full Personal Assistant Service, offering top quality virtual assistants with skills that drive productivity, no matter what industry you’re in.
Tailored to suit your business needs – we are here to do our job, so that you can do yours!

When you work with GlowingCo, you’ll be served by our highly experienced Virtual Assistants, who have all been rigorously trained to ensure their skillset and expertise have been perfected.

As we move through an ever-changing, digitally connected world, we see ourselves at the forefront of business processes. Remote teams and flexible working is key to business innovation, transformation and overall success.

GlowingCo offers a wide variety of services, that you can outsource as and when required, at prices to suit you. You will get to know your dedicated Virtual Assistant personally from the start and won’t be tied into any heavy contracts.

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