Testimonials

Sales Director

"My confidence and business acumen has improved through working with a coach who has years of experience working with Directors. Helen helped me clearly identify areas that I need to let go of and move into the Director role with clear goals. I now structure my time far better and spend more time and effort successfully developing key areas of the business. I would recommend Orbit's coaching as a valuable resource."

Senior Manager

"The coaching has helped me immensely. It hasn't been about 'cosy chats' but has challenged me by practicing difficult situations in a safe environment. I've been able to focus on development areas and improved my key strengths. I now have a 'toolkit' of tested skills and techniques to call upon in different situations to maximise my influence and impact."

Asst Finance Director

"I regard the development programme as an absolute success. Gill coached myself and other senior finance colleagues over a period of several months with a mixture of individual and joint sessions. She quickly established a real rapport with us that gave us the confidence to make breakthroughs in areas that we had previously struggled with. I found the programme stimulating, revelatory and rewarding. I feel I have developed my management style and approach in ways which I could never have imagined possible."

Communications Manager

"I feel completely differently now about the people management part of what I do. I have a top performing team who are very positive and motivated. I feel I have developed a way in which I can work individually with them all - which makes it easier to run team meetings (something I have always disliked doing.) Everyone is really working to their strengths. When we took part in the company's Employee Opinion Survey our department was not only the best in terms of overall / individual scores across the different categories but considerably ahead of the next best department in each case... For me you are one of those people you meet in life who really make a difference."

Public Sector Senior Manager

"Gill coached me individually over a 6 month period, along with several colleagues within the same management team, including planned group development sessions. The support provided proved invaluable during a period of intense change. It was good to ‘download’, enabling me to be more objective and focus on the right things at the right time. The advice and input received was absolutely relevant to me and was focused on my specific individual issues At times it was challenging and even uncomfortable, but it realised changes in a far more effective and precise way. It has led to a calmer, more politically astute me; improved thought processes and a more positive outlook; more effective delivery through my support team and facilitation of others – achieved more with less stress and achieved a better work / life balance; increased influence across the organisation and Improved teamwork and understanding across the management team (all of whom were bring coached)."

Senior Manager, Housing Association

"The coaching was a real luxury for me in a very difficult time – with a demanding boss, challenging relationships with other members of the senior management team, changes required in my own team, as well as preparing for an inspection – a real emotional rollercoaster! The coaching was most useful to me to be able to bounce ideas and have someone to confide in and give emotional support during these difficult times, knowing I could admit my foibles without being judged. Gill posed questions that made me think things through and at times also provided structured thinking and advice which was very useful.

I have been able to take up my role on the SMT and learn how to influence in my own way, which suits my character. The coaching has helped me to deal with some very big issues, which I may have procrastinated about before. I managed a major transition period in my team better than I expected.  When I presented my plans to the SMT I spoke with conviction and had no opposition.

I now have a much more effective team and can delegate much more successfully which leaves me with time to take up my role on the SMT. The coaching has made me feel like a ‘proper manager’. I have become much more self-aware. I spend much more time thinking about how to motivate my team as individuals, recognising that they have individual needs.

The coaching was a valuable experience for me on many levels and the fact that the organisation has invested in me in this way has made me feel valued, in spite of the pressures."

Operations Director

"At Europa we engaged Orbit some five years ago and I was assigned one of the senior consultants as my executive coach and mentor. During this period I had moved from an operational management role into a Director of the company and attribute some of this personal growth to the support and help I have had from Orbit. They have a very demanding and challenging approach but are equally supportive in difficult situations".

European Marketing Director

"I have found the coaching sessions with Gill very helpful. She has an uncanny ability to ask just the right questions which makes you think better about the issue, clarify your thinking and thus  to help you generate your own answers. She is obviously very experienced and has an extensive toolbox of skills and knowledge to turn to where necessary, meaning that she can provide the right interjection of knowledge, example or to up your insight or skill base just the right time. This makes the experience very time efficient. She can pin point the issue, pin point the right interjection and after only a short period of time leaves you feeling clear headed and on a path to success."

Clare Findlay

"I have worked with Orbit for a number of years. Initially they undertook a programme of increasing productivity in our telesales team and this was entirely successful. More recently I needed to explore the behavioral profiles of my executive team and engaged Orbit for this exercise. They used extended DISC and the results have been both enlightening and rewarding - we can move forward with a much greater insight into how our teams operate and need to develop."

Jamie Buttle

"I appointed Orbit when I was Head of Sales at Lynx Technology Ltd. We embarked upon a personal coaching and mentoring programme which developed my direct skills to operate at UK Plc and also to take on a much bigger role as the Group Sales Director. The work was entirely productive and successful."