How does it work? - Henrietta Bond

Coaching challenges you to expand your thinking and push your boundaries, in order to gain clarity about your goals and identify the motivation to implement them

As an ‘art’ coaching produces exciting and often unexpected results, but it is also a methodical and grounded process. You have the opportunity to ‘think out loud’, and I ask the questions and offer your observations that allow you to discover new options and perspectives essential for making lasting shifts.

I work with you to:

Clearly identify your priorities and values, and recognise their impact
Build on your existing strengths and passions, and your individual learning style
Recognise skills and experiences you have forgotten or overlooked
Explore your aspirations, and separate the pleasant fantasies from the essential goals you have to fulfil
Clarify goals and plan endurable, long-term strategies
‘Chunk down’ major goals into manageable stages
Identify any distractions, fears or doubts that may take you off your chosen path, and create resourceful ways of staying ‘on track’
Discover, where relevant, new ‘tools’ from approaches to behavioural change, such as Transactional Analysis, NLP, theories of team building, learning from neuroscience etc
Unlock the motivation and resources to see your goals through to fruition
Recognise your successes as well as learning from setbacks
Use the learning from your coaching to become self-sufficient after you finish your programme

'Henrietta asks the difficult questions and probes for those issues and problems that made me feel uncomfortable, but are necessary to find the right solutions. She works incredibly hard to provide the right support and helped me to move on when I was looking for new direction in my career.'

Julie Ingham, Marketing and Communications Manager at National Day Nurseries Association

'Henrietta has excellent insight into her client group. Her coaching skills are first class and she never loses sight of her client's objectives, whatever they may be. She has deep respect for every individual she encounters and her personal integrity is unquestionable; both essential attributes in any coach. She is truly expert and genuinely committed to building self-esteem and resilience.'

Mica May, Director - Marketing and Promotion - Stopcocks Women Plumbers

'I found Henrietta's coaching profoundly shifting and valuable. I'd struggled for years with getting any leverage on clutter and hoarding. I was persistently and habitually stuck, and I procrastinated. Henrietta seemed to enable, facilitate and weave a magical conversation that went deep, helped me clarify and shift my thinking, and specifically, help me break through fears. As a direct result, I was motivated to take important actions and steps that I had previously found quite difficult, finally moving me in the right direction.'

Isaac Acheampong, Project Manager

‘When I was in my 20's and scrabbling around for answers I would find comfort in the assumption that, by the time I hit middle age, I'd have it all sorted. In the blink of an eye I was 52 and still flapping about like a fish out of water. The shock of reaching that point in life and realising I was still so far from knowing how to get my life and career on track, was profound.

I was fortunate enough to find Henrietta at a time when I was at my most confused and spending swathes of time procrastinating. Henrietta has an amazing way of helping you find the path again, to set achievable goals and to finally feel that you're making progress.’

Ann Brown, Celebrant, Actor/Director

‘I’d reached a point where I wanted to have more purpose to my life and to return to some kind of work. My children were getting older, and I’d given up my career in management to look after them and do some major house renovations, but I had reached a point where I spent most of my time doing mundane tasks for the family and little for myself. I came to coaching with Henrietta, looking to stop procrastinating and find some focus, but I got so much more.

What I realised was that I’d become a “bird in a gilded cage’’ and that I needed to reclaim my life. I made some very significant changes, including doing a degree which I had wanted to pursue as a teenager. Henrietta has the skills to get you to look at the things that matter, and then follow through.’

Frances Rivers, Photographer

'Having worked at the sharp-end of national broadcasting, I thought I knew how to handle difficult people. But I was having real problems dealing with an awkward and clingy work associate. So I contacted Henrietta, and it was like viewing my messy dilemma through a crystal-clear mirror.

Using deep listening and subtle questioning, Henrietta helped me shine a light on the real issues and come up with my own solution. I liked the fact that she asked me how proactive I wanted her to be, rather than just launching straight in. It was a very bespoke experience. An excellent coach, creating real, tangible results.'

Ian Peacock, Radio and Television Presenter

What people are saying about my coaching