Feedback during the coaching process

During our coaching relationship you can be sure that I will regularly seek feedback from you on the way our coaching is progressing and how you are benefiting.  I will always confirm that the process is working for you and make changes appropriately.

What my clients and colleagues say about coaching:

"I have worked with Jo James for nearly ten years, and see her as a natural coach who helps people to achieve great business and personal results.  Jo makes strong connections with people, she listens well, communicates with integrity, building trust and confidence all the while.  Under her leadership, people and teams flourished, finding they had the capability and capacity to do more, and to do it better, than they originally thought possible.  She is pragmatic, approachable and always works with warmth and humour!"

Tim Collins
IBM HR Outsourcing Delivery Executive

"I've got to be honest when the idea of life coaching was presented to me, I was quite sceptical. For the whole of the 29 years of my life I have never really known what I wanted to do - I had had some short term, general goals like go to Uni, earn a decent salary and travel as much as possible but when it came to what type of career path I wanted to follow, I had no idea. I didn't really think either that a few life coaching session would magically give the the direction that I needed - 8 months in South America on a career break hadn't so I didnt see how a few hours of life coaching could. However, having worked with Jo James previously, I had a lot of respect for her and felt maybe if nothing else she may be able to give me some guidence help me weigh up my options.

The main thing about the sessions is that its a full hour talking with an experienced professional about what you want to talk about - in my case, my career. Jo helped me explore my work history to try and establish what I had enjoyed doing, what I had been good at doing, what I'd not enjoyed and what I might like to do in the future. We looked at my skills, my strengths, where I had been most happy. I came away from the sessions feeling really positive and with a much clearer direction in 2 areas in which I wanted to progress my job search. Following this I gained some work experience in one specific area and feel for the first time ever I know where I want to be and I have a plan on how to get myself there. An important lesson that Jo taught me was that she was not going to provide me with the answers, I had the answers myself but by talking to her, she helped me find them. I would highly recommend life coaching to anyone who has some decisions to make and needs some guidance on making them."  

Beth Griffiths
Client

"Jo is a natural coach. I found Jo to be supportive, focused and totally committed to my success.     In a coaching conversation she challenges me to think beyond my assumptions about what's possible and helps me to see what I can do to move forwards. The one word that captures my experience with Jo is TRUST. You can TRUST Jo to be 100% committed to help you find what your real goals are, TRUST Jo to help you find your own pathway, TRUST Jo to be highly professional and capable with her coaching skills and TRUST Jo with helping you find your direction.  Jo is one of the most principled, professional, discreet --and inspiring people-- I have had the pleasure to work with."    

Former Colleague
Procter and Gamble Ltd

"I have had coaching from Jo James for sometime now, on moving from a stressful situation into a new way of life completely.  Her encouragement and structure of the coaching enabled me to see that I could evolve myself in a way that I had once only ever dreamed of.  I now am in control of my own destiny and have recently became self employed but still using the experience and skills I have from my many years of working for multi national companies.  If you have ever thought that there is now way to get out of a situation, you think you are stuck in a rut, my advice to you would be to look up Jo James Life Coach, it is worth every penny and could be the best investment you ever make for yourself.  My life is totally turned around  - and for the better."

Susan Amis
Streamlined Office Solutions, November 2006

"As an HR leader, Jo's successfully navigated many of the most challanging issues facing business leaders today... including outsourcing, start-ups, downsizing, international relocation, organization design and talent development. Along the way, she's provided countless people with meaningful performance and career management guidance.  Her real life experiences provide invaluable perspective for anyone facing the fast paced change inevitable in today's business environment."

Mark Biegger
HR Director Procter and Gamble

"I had always wanted to spend some time with a Personal Coach because I was sure a coach would help me to identify my goals and plan a feasible strategy to achieve these goals. Specifically I knew I wanted to learn better ways to organise my life and my work, effectively address a couple of personal relationship issues, build more of the things I like into my life and learn to stop behaviours/attitudes that were holding me back.

As a personal Coach Jo helped me to achieve this. There is no other time in your life (or at least my life!) where I could feel comfortable sitting down and talking about myself for an hour every week.  It was very liberating.  The reason it worked was because I knew I wanted to make changes and I had a fair idea of what those changes would be. Jo helped me to crystalise  things, visualise the person I wanted to be and plan how I could make the changes.

Personal Coaching has given me the tools to plan my life the way I want to live it. I now feel that I'm in a position to coach myself into achieving the goals I have set. Thank you Jo for giving me these tools. I'm forever grateful to you for what I've learned."

Nicky Thamavong –   2006