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 What my clients say…
In need of a new vision
I started a coaching series with Jamie when I was particularly interested in having new insight in my career, work-life balance and future development. I was in charge of a quite important IT project in the company and I saw that I had a need of a new vision and input in my routine work and behavior.
I gained many new ideas during our coaching sessions. First of all the work on clarifying my values made it easier to define my career development. Also, as a financial director in an international automotive manufacturing group I gained more assurance in my medium term work objectives.
We discussed how to strengthen my family life and I decided to change some aspects of communication and planning with my wife and kids. Now I discuss my short-term work commitments more regularly with my wife and we find convenient consensus. I also involve my children in weekend planning –a relationship creator. Jamie helped me create some tools to help the way I think about my children and family life.
Some final sessions allowed me to look though the process of decision making and stress resistance. I found the “positive statement” technique proposed by Jamie very useful and efficient. It supports me in different challenges I face in my everyday life.
I wish that every manager spent such session hours with Jamie to gain new inspiration and motivation for next career steps.
Piotr Witek
Financial Director, Poland
Hutchinson Worldwide
The processes developed ... have been excellent
I have found the sessions with Jamie Treadwell to be very beneficial. We developed a series of processes together to help set objectives, review progress and ways to identify new opportunities. The key to these processes is their flexibility, allowing them to be applied to our small company in the constantly changing economic environment. Jamie helped to identify interruptions to the delivery of objectives and ways to overcome these interruptions including better communication of the objectives.
I met face to face with Jamie for three sessions, but the majority were by telephone. These telephone sessions were scheduled weeks in advance and were very efficient. They provided me with a time to step-back and view our company’s performance objectively and to review our core objectives. The processes developed with Jamie have been excellent and I would therefore highly recommend Jamie Treadwell as a life&business coach.
Richard Reilly
Professor of Neural Engineering
Trinity College, Dublin
I am a hardened skeptic ... so it was quite a surprise
I am a hardened skeptic when it comes to life coaching, self-help, powerfully positive thinking or any such similar mental maneuvers, so it was quite a surprise to discover how useful Jamie's approach could be. We were discussing my creative practice (I am a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist), I was bemoaning the insular nature of my local music scene and professing vague aspirations with regard to alternative venues for musical performance. I mentioned an embryonic scheme for a musical event in an unexpected location. With a mixture of simple conversational techniques and astute questioning Jamie encouraged me to articulate my idea fully and from every possible angle (including some I hadn't previously considered), identifying the strengths and exposing the weaknesses in my plan. In my case what I was suffering from wasn't a lack of inspiration so much as an inability to stop idealising and procrastinating. Jamie helped me to systematically arrange the components of my proposed musical event and formulate a plan of attack. In a very short space of time my mood changed from wishful thinking to a confident awareness of how I would go about achieving my goal.
The event took bucketloads of work and a significant time investment, but rather than remaining passionate and clueless I was able to focus on composing the music, creating and installing artwork, finding a suitable venue and acquiring permission, rehearsing, advertising, sweeping up broken glass and making tea! The event (entitled "EMBERS") was a resounding success, and served as a catalyst for a similar 'happening' the following month, where our folk-trio performed a collaborative concert with another band in the Palm House of the city's Botanic Gardens. I am indebted to Jamie for injecting a hefty dose of momentum into my enthused but rather blurry set of ideas.
Joel Cathcart, founding member of alternative folk act Albrecht's Pencil
This is a new beginning for me…
In December 2007 I felt like I was trapped in a closed model of working and I certainly wasn't firing on all cylinders. At the end of our coaching series in March 2008 there are new buds of possibility opening up for me. The coaching has helped me understand myself, my gifts and needs much more - now I see how and what I thrive in.
Jamie is a great listener who ably helps me sift through my thoughts and musings, reflecting back at me things I might have missed or not seen. He enables me to see where there is room for change and movement in what I thought was a closed environment. Now life seems to hold many more opportunities for me to grow more, and thrive. This is a new beginning for me – I am taking the first steps in pursuing something I’ve always wanted to do in my life and career, but never thought I’d be able to do. Thank you!
JJ
… a new way of thinking, a foundation to build the rest of my life on
A few months before my 51st birthday, while reflecting on my life—past, present and future—I came to the conclusion that I wanted more freedom to give of my time and energy to others, outside of my job. I also realised fairly quickly that I could not figure out how to get that freedom on my own; I needed some outside help to “think outside the box” of my current perspectives and the way I was living my life.
Having heard about life coaching at a leadership course I’d attended through work, I began investigating the possibility of taking up some personal coaching to help me address my need to de-clutter my life and get more focussed about what I wanted to be and do with the years left to me.
When I compared the coaching services that Jamie was offering with a couple other options, I decided that his flexible approach and breadth of experience would give me the best value for money. Having now undertaken 7 coaching sessions in 4 months, I can honestly tell you that the value of this process for me far exceeds what little money I invested in it.
Why? Because the principles I learned through working with Jamie for that brief time have not only helped me reach some short-term goals, they have given me a new way of thinking, a foundation to build the rest of my life on. For example, when I could only see the obstacles to freeing up more space in my life for self-care (so that I could care more effectively for others), Jamie helped me see the possibilities based on past successes. And yet, at no stage did he tell me what I “should” do; instead, his incisive questions drew out what I really wanted to do and be, and then led me through practical steps that made my goals a reality.
Through the coaching process, I have become much more aware of who I am, what my values and choices are, and how I can live out and celebrate those values. As a coach, Jamie has challenged me to think outside my boxes, while always giving me ownership of the process and the decisions. He has also celebrated my achievements with me and helped me begin with the end in mind.
I would highly recommend Jamie Treadwell as a Coach to anyone who is willing to invest positively in their future, either personally or corporately, in order to “see with new eyes.”
EKR
I made significant progress based on a better understanding of myself and my motivations…
For several years I had intended to get coaching, but it proved hard to fit coaching sessions into my busy schedule. I felt that between managing a company and being a married father of two children my personal faith development and spiritual vision fell short. The two obvious fields of responsibility (family and work) could each use even more focus as well.
When I met Jamie I quickly decided to seize the opportunity to develop some key areas of my life. We covered 3 areas. Faith Development, Work-Life-Balance, and doing my job better.
The first 3 sessions focused on creating a vision for and assessing the “status quo” of the areas in my life that I wanted to improve. The break-through came in sessions 4 and 5 where realistic targets and the application of structures and actions were implemented. I truly felt I made significant progress based both on a better understanding of myself and my motivations and also based on clear guidelines that I had developed almost “naturally”. The coach was only there to help me see what was already there and to formulate and apply what I truly wanted for myself.
The coaching has helped me to implement weekly routines which have helped me to inwardly keep focused on my life-goals of being a spiritual man as husband, father, and business man.
I now feel that the time spent with my family is richer and I am more present with my family when at home. My work has also profited from the coaching as I have developed a means of tracking my sales activities more effectively thus reaching a higher performance.
My wife and I are very happy about the coaching progress and the visible positive impact on my life. I can highly recommend Jamie as a coach. I will definitely keep enrolled on a quarterly basis to monitor my new routines and possibly for pursuing other areas for improvement.
JB
… to become more disciplined
My overarching goal for the series was to become more disciplined: to be faithful to my schedule and commitments. Over the course of the six weeks, I noticed a marked improvement in this area; I was surprised to see how quickly I saw results. From little things like getting up on time to successfully meeting project deadlines for work, I could see the coaching sessions beginning to positively affect many areas of my life. I am very impressed with the coaching method and thankful for all Jamie's help!"
JM
… turning that vision into reality
The coaching series taught me the importance of strategic thinking and how to do it. I was able to come up with ideas that I would not have been able to otherwise. As I put these ideas into action, more ideas developed. The best thing was that all these ideas were my own, from my own head. I have set goals and seen them achieved, and as a result, I feel that I am doing my job better than I would have been doing without the coaching.
In my work with people, it is very hard to see development or results in the way that you might in other lines of work. These coaching sessions helped me find ways of doing this by helping me visualise what I would like to see happen, and then take concrete ways of turning that vision into reality.
RD
growth in confidence…
This coaching series with Jamie has been the most useful thing I have done in these past seven years to move forward my student mission work. I have been able to take what is inside my head and bring it outside. In particular I have clarified my thoughts and ideas, externalised them and clearly articulated them. In helped give me clear and achievable goals that included enabling our students to become effective in their own missionary work.
Personally, this gave me a growth in confidence. It has allowed me to see that I have what it takes to not only do my job, but to do my job well. A restless anxiety due to too much to do and no clear path to getting it done has been replaced by peace through having clear goals and a path to achieve them. I will use this process for working with my own staff.
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Jamie Treadwell
31 Lynton Road
Acton, W3 9HL
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