Services on Offer

I offer a wide range of coaching support that is individually tailored to you and your needs.

The menu below includes an overview of the coaching, supervision and consultancy services that i offer.

All my work is client led and all packages can be tailored to support individuals, teams and organisations.

If you don’t feel that what you need is covered in the menu below then I am more than happy to discuss with you in a free 1-1 (no obligation) chat.

1-1 Coaching Packages

Business Coaching

Do you want to grow and develop your existing business?

Do you have the perfect business idea but you don’t know where to start?

Work with me to explore your current situation, identify areas for growth and the action you need to take to succeed or explore what your steps need to be to start your business and develop your plan.

Career Coaching

Are you just starting out in your career or looking for your next challenge?

Have you returned to work from an absence – maternity leave, illness, sabbatical?

Here are just some of the ways i could work with you….

I will support you to identify your strengths, skills, interests and passions. Exploring where you want to be versus where you may feel you should be and supporting you to plan how you will get there.

I will support you to manage all the range of feelings and thoughts attached to starting a new job or returning to work after an absence. How you can make the impression you want to make whilst finding the best balance for you.

Coaching for staff in Schools (Head Teachers / Teachers)

Do you have an hour to think about your own development?

An hour to think about where you want to take the school next or work through a staffing relationship issue?

As school leaders i know you wear many hats and have multiple competing priorities. I know from coaching others in this sector that it can also be a lonely place ‘at the top’ and there is nobody to share the burden with. I will provide a safe space for you to share.

Amongst other things the coaching i offer could provide support and challenge to help you with your planning and thinking. Allow time and space to test out ideas without the interference of advice or opinion, support you in building your personal resilience, the resilience of others and finding that work / life balance that works for you.

Leadership Coaching

What are your strengths as a leader and what are the areas you would like to improve?

Do you feel out of your depth, worried you aren’t the right person for the job?

Do you have staffing issues that you just can’t seem to resolve?

I will work with you to explore and develop your leadership style and approach. Identify your strengths, values and the areas you want to improve. Raise your self-awareness, self-belief and your awareness of those around you. Work on your confidence and the courage you need to be a successful leader.

Personal Development

Personal development is exactly what it suggests – an area of development that is personal to you.

Here are some examples of areas I have supported clients with:
Improving their confidence
Building their resilience
Exploring their barriers / what is holding them back
Managing a change
Exploring their strengths
Managing their energies and time
Planning for the future in uncertain times

Supervision – For Qualified Coaches

What is supervision?

Coaching supervision is an integral part of any coaches practice. It provides the opportunity to take a step back from your coaching practice, reflect on how you coach, what you experience when you are coaching and take a wider view of your coaching and the context in which you are working.

A common misconception in the world of coaching supervision is that you only need to access it if you have a client based issue. You absolutely would do that, but supervision is so much more than that. It provides transformational moments for coaches, allowing you to understand more about who you are as a coach and how you can use that to best support your clients.

Here are just some examples of what coaches access supervision for:

Newly qualified coach looking for support and guidance Space to explore case-related issues
Discuss and explore ethical and boundary dilemmas
Stretch, challenge and develop your coaching practice
Seek guidance, support and advice on your practice/cases

My supervision approach

I truly believe that as coaches we are always learning and developing and I believe in the resourcefulness of every coach that I supervise.

I am a values led coach and supervisor so what you can expect from me is honesty, empathy, trust and integrity which I like to balance with challenge, fun and a little bit of creativity too!

As your supervisor I will provide the stretch you are looking for to support your growth in the profession. I will also share my own experiences / insights and offer advice and guidance where appropriate.

I use a wide range of supervision tools and models and will also share with you any resources I think you may find useful.

One of my strengths as a supervisor is providing the safe space where you feel you can open up and share. I have the personal experience that allows me to truly empathise with your situation and I will walk alongside you in your journey to becoming the coach you want to be.

1-1 Coaching Supervision

I provide supervision packages for qualified coaches and also ad-hoc support when needed. Please contact me for more information about how I can support you.

Group Supervision

I offer group supervision session with a maximum of 4 coaches. This is time and space to work and learn from (and with) coaching peers in order to strengthen and develop your practice.

Please contact me for more details about how we could work together.

Consultancy Services

Developing a Coaching Culture

I can work with you and your organisation to support you to develop and implement a coaching culture. I will share my in-depth knowledge and experience in growing an internal coaching pool and providing coaching programmes for managers and staff.

Coaching Skills for Managers

Coaching is widely recognised as an essential skill in a manager’s toolkit with more and more organisations looking to skill their managers in this area in order to empower staff and enhance the productivity of their workforce.

I will work with you to develop a coaching programme that meets your organisation’s behaviours and values and supports your managers to safely explore coaching and develop their own coaching style and approach.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for Internal Coaches

CPD for qualified coaches is integral to their practice. I will work with your internal coaches to provide CPD on the most current themes and emerging areas of the coaching profession.

Please contact me for more information about how I can support your organisation with coaching.

Testimonials

Coaching is accessible and transformational for anyone who wants to make a change or explore their future plan. I work with clients from all backgrounds and across all sectors. Those starting out in their careers and those who are established and looking for their next role. Leaders looking to grow their business and those starting out in a new venture.

Many of my clients come with their own personal goals around confidence, leadership, work/life balance (to name but a few).

No matter what you are looking for, i will support you to find your solutions and achieve your goals.

Coaching came at a time when i was really struggling to find a balance between working and being with my family. I was in a job that I hated but it paid the bills – i felt stuck but i had convinced myself that this was my life until the kids got older.

Someone suggested that Debs might be able to help me. If i am honest I didn’t believe that she could! I spent the first session explaining my situation and all the reasons why I couldn’t change it. Debs listened and then very carefully and with lots of kindness she repeated back to me what I had said. That was a huge moment – hearing myself in her words made me feel hugely emotional, embarrassed and angry with myself. She then simply asked ‘do you want to make a change?’

I did and after 2 more sessions I had come up with a plan to leave my job, find part time work and go back into part time education – something I hadn’t realised I really wanted to do.

I am now studying, working and spending quality time with my children. It’s hard work but I am happy! Without Debs listening to me and questioning me I would not have made that change. She is kind and caring but it was the tough questions she asked that made me make my change.

Part Time Student / Full Time Mum

At 23 years old I felt lost and without much direction. I was suffering blows from each and every negative emotion possible, I met Debs through work and after found out about her coaching. I decided to jump on board, I needed the help. The coaching was a game changer for me; it helped to bring some clarity to my thinking patterns and why my destructive emotions were preventing me from moving forward. The coaching helped me to organise my thoughts, promote healthy functioning and get myself back to living each day at a time with minimal anxiety and despair.

Debs was the icing on the cake, her compassion, ability to breakdown my issues and to call me up on anything that wasn’t serving me was brilliant, I remember one session talking at her non stop and weeks later she brought up specific sentences that I had briefly said and showed me how the narrative was changing through coaching. It was a powerful experience and one that greatly served me at the time of need.

Today I have the business I heavily struggled to start, the family I was super fearful to create and a daily strength to move forward whether or not the negative narrative or emotions set in.

Forever grateful!

Business Owner

I met Debs when I was at a cross roads in terms of my career. I knew I wanted to do something different but i didn’t know what it was or where to start. I wasn’t sure that talking it through with a stranger would help but I decided to give it a go!

Three sessions in and I had decided exactly what i wanted to do and I was starting to formulate my plans to help me get there. I had a few ‘wobbles’ along the way but each time Debs would offer reassurance but without giving me advice. She asked the right questions and helped me to think about things I would never have thought about on my own.

I now run my own business and I could not be happier. I occasionally call upon Debs for one-off coaching sessions to help keep me on track and working towards my plans.

Debs is kind and caring and has a great way of making you believe you can achieve anything.

Business Owner

I have known Debs Hirst for over 3 years in her role as an Executive Coach. My initial introduction to Debs was via a Chief Executive who suggested I would benefit from career perspective if I was coached by Debs. Initially cynical, and never being coached, I agreed and as the saying goes, “The rest is history”

From day one Debs brought her calming and caring nature to the coaching session. She was very professional and I quickly connected to her approach. Within the first two hours, she helped me to set my goal, by gentle encouragement and the correct amount of questions. She is extremely emotionally aware and I am confident she could connect with anyone in a coaching capacity.

Over a period of 4 coaching sessions, Debs assisted me in truly establishing what I needed to do to move forward and more importantly to be true to myself. She allowed me to determine what was really important to me and how I could sustain my approach.

I can genuinely say that Deb changed my whole approach to Homelife and Work. My honest view is that you will be privileged to be coached by Debs, she will change your life for the greater and better.

Director in Local Government