Coaching Services
Why Coaching?
Sometimes, we may feel that even though most areas in our lives are going great, there are other areas that are not. When we realise this, we wish we could produce some changes in these weaker areas to get them to be what we want. Where do we start? How do we approach the change? What do we do? How do we change? What do we change? All these questions may come up and at times we can feel overwhelmed, not knowing how to generate the changes we are after. It is in this context we may start to feel blocked, confused and frustrated.
Life Coaching programs are designed to enable you to find strong clarity, purpose, revisit your values and beliefs to make them work for you as well as assist you to set up meaningful, workable, feasible goals and congruent implementable action plans to achieve great results.
When it comest to design excellence, as a Design Coach consultant Alex plays a supportive and unbiased part in your creative and productive endeavours. Alex can assist you with design thinking and facilitation, where the main focus is adding value to your organisation, your design commissions and ultimately to your clients. Alex can assist your team through bespoke coaching tools, unencumbered objectivity, original fresh design ideas and alternative design thinking approaches.
Alex can also provide you with innovative, inspiring, implementable and effective activities to improve staff morale, organization culture strengthening and superior design outcomes.
Skills and expertise that Alex provides.
Life Coaching.
Life coaching is a partnership process in which client and coach work together to achieve the client’s desired outcomes. Life coaching does not replace any other health-based therapies such as counselling, psychology or psychiatry. Through exploratory questions the coach empowers the client to find their own answers and own their results.
Innovation.
With a demonstrated track record of “Chief Imagination Officer” and “Imagineer” as affectionally referred to in previous design leadership roles, Alex creates a fertile and productive environment in which staff and leadership teams can develop extraordinary ideas and innovate. Innovation could be focused on processes, development of ideas, products or specific improvements.
In the competitive world in which we live today plain competence is not enough anymore, products and services should provide superior value for money and inspire our clients through extraordinary quality and usefulness.
Design Excellence Coaching.
Alex assists design focused companies to implement design thinking and other creative processes. With his proven teaching experience in post graduate architecture, landscape architecture and urban design courses in various universities, Alex provides tailored programs inspiring individuals and empowering teams to achieve design excellence.
Mentoring.
We all needed help and support as we learned our initial steps in our professional career. Mentoring is a valuable way to provide support, inspiration, specific skills and technical knowledge to developing professionals.
With over 35 years of professional design practice, awards and industry recognition Alex has a wealth of experience to share with and guide young professionals. Through his mentoring sessions Alex generates a healthy and supportive learning atmosphere. Participating staff are encouraged to explore and experiment, developing confidence as they test new approaches and methods to resolve given problems.
Leadership.
Alex delivers various leadership coaching programs. These programs consist of flexibly formatted modules that enable key staff to further develop their professional career and leadership skills. The foci of these sessions revolve generally around quality of communication, behaviour modelling, team building, development of cultural values identification. Additionally, leadership coaching includes collective and individual goal setting, paired with feasible implementation plans, to produce changes and achieve results as desired.
Training.
Alex provides training in key design areas of architectural and urban design, communication, presentation, design thinking, innovation, team building among others.
Alex customises each training program to deliver on each company’s identified needs and priorities.
Sessions are designed with a flexible structure to enable participating staff to acquire the necessary knowledge and develop required skills to complete the training.
Benefits for your organisation
Higher staff performance, fulfilment and retention, teamwork culture and overall productivity.
Innovative products development.
Richer and superior design outcomes with greater objectivity through detached third-party input and contributions.
Capitalisation of your intellectual products through rigorous analytical and critical inputs.
Improved and defensible design outcomes through collaboration and cross fertilisation.
Enhanced flexibility, workability and cost efficiencies.
“Underpinned by a successful career as an architect, urban design and design thinker, allows him a great perspective as well as enabling him to drill down to the core of an issue. He has a great framework to structure the process, but also has the intuition to be able to switch quickly to different techniques as required to respond to the needs of the client.
Alex is calm and insightful, and able to draw out the relevant issues that underpin any blockages. In the couple of months of working with Alex, I found that my clarity improved tenfold. Prior to our sessions, I was a bit stuck in the middle of a career change. Alex has helped me get a clear insight into the vision of my future self, as well has help give me a context for building my confidence.I was certainly changed by the experience working with Alex.”
— Paul Fairweather
