What is Coaching? | Dyllis Faife Coaching

Coaching is about action and achievement, it’s about change and creating new opportunities, it’s about momentum and performance and it’s about supporting you to find your own path between where you are now and where you want to be in the future.

Coaching helps you discover your individual talents and abilities and encourages you to develop personal awareness, in preparation for making the necessary changes.

It helps you develop the confidence and self-belief which will be the foundations of your success. Coaching helps you to set personal goals and define the steps you need to take to get you there, enabling you to fulfil your true potential.

Whether you’re a leader, manager, small business owner or someone needing to make a career or life change, moving out of your comfort zone can feel scary and keeping yourself motivated can be a real struggle.

Working with a coach, in a structured and totally confidential environment, gives you the extra support you need and provides the constant motivation to help you achieve your success. Working with a coach helps you set powerful and exciting goals.

A coach will listen to you when you need to explore ideas and help you offload in a managed and productive way. A coach will stimulate you to clarify your thoughts, encourage you to develop new ways of thinking and inspire you to create a new mindset.

Having a fresh mindset means you behave differently. Thinking differently and behaving differently enables you to achieve your goals and be successful, and working with a coach will help you accomplish your desired goals more quickly than you would do by yourself.

If coaching feels right for you and would like to arrange an introductory consultation with me, get in touch now:

Book Your FREE Consultation »

Dyllis helped me to explore my options at a particularly demanding time in my career. She is an engaging, attentive and challenging coach supporting me to ‘be braver sooner’ by leaving long-term employment to undertake an MBA – Dyllis has quite literally helped me to change my life!

I wholeheartedly recommend you get in touch with Dyllis to discuss how coaching can help you to achieve your potential. Good luck!

Alex McAnulty Head of Services, Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People

Coaching was a great way for me to reflect on my practice which is something I never take the time to do. Dyllis was a fabulous coach and helped me to identify ways in which I could achieve my set objectives now and how to use the learning gained for the future.

Heidi Weldon Learning & Development Officer, United Response

United Response commissioned Dyllis to work with a cohort of frontline and middle managers to coach them based on individual objectives. United Response evaluated the coaching and the feedback was excellent; all the coachees said they had benefited and would highly recommend the coaching provided by Dyllis to other managers in United Response.

Coachees reported that they particularly valued someone independent to talk to and the confidentiality aspect of the coaching relationship. Most coachees reported an increase in confidence as well as clarity and actions to take forward to resolve their particular objective.United Response feels so positively about the benefits and impact of Dyllis’s coaching, for both the organisation itself and for the individual managers, that we have now not only recontracted with her for a second year but we have doubled the volume of our contract with her, so that even more of our managers can benefit from her coaching skills.

Emma Marshall HR Business Partner-Learning and Development, United Response Visit client website

Dyllis Faife is a great coach. She is patient, committed and concerned. I value every session that I have had with Dyllis and feel that she has made a real difference to my life.

If you want to move forward in your life and want support to help you find your way, Dyllis is a fantastic solution. My self-confidence has increased and this means I am now able to take a more flexible approach to life and am more confident and proactive in my decision-making. The changes in me have led to an improved home and professional life.

Thank you Dyllis.

Shaline Manhertz Mum of two and working in the public sector

I would highly recommend Dyllis to anyone looking for coaching around professional or career development. Dyllis can guide you through discussions around past experiences and allow you to reflect and build upon these identifying the positives.

Dyllis can work with you to identify future goals and specify how you will achieve these, developing a focused plan for future career development. I found each of my sessions with Dyllis to be an enjoyable experience and I continue to use the actions form each session to build towards my long term plans.

Rowan Horton Development Manager

Excellent business coach.

The opportunity to take redundancy spurred me on to start my own business, but going from employee to employer took me to unknown territory and I lost a bit of confidence.

I met Dyllis at a networking event and immediately liked her. She has a great coaching manner which made me feel empowered and confident again very quickly.

My business is now doing very well and is way ahead of projected forecasts. If you’re reading this considering whether to contact her or not… please do… she’s amazing.

Rebecca Houston Founder, Desire Marketing Ltd. Visit client website

Dyllis helped me decide where to direct my energies at a time when I was bewildered by the range of possible directions open to me at an early stage of my career. She showed me a structured way of determining what sort of career path would best fit with my values and skills, and encouraged me to set concrete goals that brought me closer to that path.

Throughout the process, Dyllis was patient, considerate and encouraging. I would also highly recommend the DISC profiling that Dyllis offers: it has given me a new way of thinking about the way I communicate with others in the workplace, and I’m looking forward to trying it out.

Tom Seeking Career Change and a New Direction

Working with Dyllis over the last few months has really helped fast track my progress in a range of areas we have worked on. Quickly establishing a good rapport and understanding of how I work, Dyllis’ coaching style helped me gain clarity, understanding and direction.

The dynamic of working with a professional outside of the Business was a leading factor in choosing DF Coaching. Having a number of sessions also worked for me to help commit fully and maintain focus.

Thanks again Dyllis and I look forward to working with you on future projects.

Douglas Shawcross Finance Director, Anglia Freight

As part of my Masters in Assistive Technology, I had to complete a work based learning module (WBL) implementing a change in adult social care, drawing upon both project and change management experience and theory as well as a wide range of evidence based practice for Assistive Technology. The WBL module required that I identified and worked with a mentor and coach. As I had read and been inspired by an article Dyllis had written on this very subject, I thought Dyllis would be my perfect coach. I was delighted to discover that as well as writing an excellent article, Dyllis is indeed also a professional coach, and agreed to work with me!

I had considered working with a coach previously over a number of years but never actually made the leap. So I was delighted that I did, and wondered why I hadn’t done it sooner! Over the course of a 6 month period, Dyllis coached me in a number of professional areas, including the development of my personal skills and effectiveness, in particular around listening, leadership and communication. Dyllis’ style is friendly and professional, formal and structured around achieving specific goals that I identified as being important to me or my career development. And always flexible where things never ran exactly as planned. The result is that I have renewed my contract with my customer, providing a further 6 months of consultancy, and I am also continuing with the coaching!

Richard Haynes Interim Assistive Technology Commissioner, Northamptonshire County Council

Thank you so much for conducting the Myers Briggs Personality Profile with me.

It helped me identify my natural behaviours and those I have learnt to adopt over my years in business. Confirming that I am able to adapt in different situations and use my learnt behaviour rather than my natural behaviour when it is more appropriate.

You delivered the Personality Profile in a very informative manner, giving me all the information I needed to complete it. The discussion after completion of the Personality Profile was invaluable, helping me identify that following a period of chronic illness I am actually the same person I was before the illness. You also allowed plenty of time in order to complete the Personality Profile and even had some extra time at the end to give me some coaching regarding an impending house move. During this coaching you helped me identify the behaviours I was using to make my decisions and that I could use some learnt behaviours where necessary to complete the task. This coaching was invaluable.

All in all it was a very useful exercise, delivered in a professional and friendly manner, allowing me to complete the exercise at my own pace.

Emma Bussey Anglia Cleaning