Individual Development

Coaching & Mentoring

We believe in providing solutions that fit your needs, at the time you need them. This applies particularly to coaching and mentoring where client’s needs change over time and sometimes even within a single session. Jacqueline and her associates offer a range of services across the coaching/mentoring spectrum, and the skills and understanding to know what to offer, and when. J Hill Associates coaches are members of a recognised professional coaching body and regularly take personal supervision and coaching. They also either have or are working towards recognised professional qualifications.

Follow the links for case studies on:

Coaching for Self Confidence and Managing Stress »

Mentoring on Project Close and Career Choices at a major UK Trust »

Leadership Coaching at Marie Stopes International »

Leadership Development

At some point we have all been managed or managed others, and we know that there are certain skills and behaviours that lead to success in getting results through others. What is less obvious is what these are and how we can develop them. Successful leaders have that magic combination of management skills and leadership behaviours that not only enable their teams to get things done, but also to exceed expectations time after time.

We cannot simply copy what our role models do. There is something about what they do that is bound up in their own personalities and backgrounds, and we cannot hope to recreate that precisely. Nor should we want to. Everyone brings their own skills, strengths and preferences to the leadership role and we strongly believe that leaders can build on these to create their own successful, authentic approach.

We therefore start where you are, explore where you want to get to, and build individual and team programmes to help you get there. We provide training and development activities for a range of skills including strategic planning, managing priorities, change, people and project management. We also help leaders develop the softer skills; enabling them to develop the understanding, confidence and flexibility to authentically adopt different approaches and to effectively motivate and use the skills of the people around them.

Follow the links for case studies on:

Creating a Leadership and Management Development Programme at Merlin »

Leadership Coaching at Marie Stopes International »

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Selling & Fundraising

The very survival of organisations depends on asking for and getting income and funding from businesses, institutions and customers. Many of us do not like to think of ourselves as 'selling' because selling has connotations of pressure, negotiation and lacking authenticity. Yet if we think of selling as persuading another to take an action that they may not have previously thought to take, then you are doing just that -- selling. So how can we reconcile persuading someone to part with money, goods, or services with our reluctance to 'sell'?

We believe that you can achieve excellent results through openess and a genuine desire to provide the ‘buyer’ with something they will value. J Hill Associates works with Client focus, founders of the highly successful "Selling is Just a Conversation" workshops, to design tailored programmes that provide the skills and confidence you and your team need. We help you to use your natural conversational skills to promote the value of your organisation to clients, institutions, investors, sponsors, and funders; make that all important ‘ask’ or close that vital sale; and generate significant income for your organisation.

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Developing Confidence and Skills with Papworth's Employment Advisers »