Client Testimonials
“Our choice of CECO felt right from the start and our
partnership proved to be an outstanding combination, not
just in terms of coaching delivery, but also as evidenced by ‘hard’ results, from which we continue to benefit from as
the coaching philosophy builds throughout the Society.
CECO’s professionalism, flexibility and expertise helped us
to achieve our objectives and more”.
General Manager
West Bromwich Building Society
“We have found it especially helpful to have CECO’s
expertise available to the Groups Divisions; wherever
results were measureable they were clearly improved, So
far most of our Directors have benefited from your
expertise and we look forward to further activity”.
Group Personnel
International Shipping
“With a broad experience of the world, CECO are a great
sounding board - impartial, confidential and challenging.
Coaching is incredibly useful as it helped me to think
things through clearly and address them. Coaching should
be offered to everyone who is committed to professional /
personal development”.
Managing Director
Citigroup
“CECO have an open and engaging style which generates
a trusting environment. The coaching focus was on
self-identification of issues and developing and
implementing plans for resolving them. As a result I am a
more effective manager and the business has benefited
from my enhanced peformance. I am pleased to
recommend CECO to anyone who wishes to develop
themselves both as a leader and as an individual”.
Senior Manager
Transco
“We would not have come so far so quickly if we had not
had CECO’s coaching expertise on site during this time of
significant change. This return has been well worth the
investment.”
Managing Director
Pharmaceuticals
The Corporate program is still fresh in my mind. For me there were two distinctive layers of perception. The first one was about content. A full spectrum of targeted resources I never used, because I haven't done any approach of the corporate arena. The second layer was about style. This is where I got my kick and learning. I learned that coaching is above all a matter of style, as in any other form of Art.
*****
Neil and Vicki's style was - I am sure it still is - a graceful, seriously witty, honest to God childlike fun and creativity. More than what it takes to be liked and trusted; transparency of intent, openness, joyfulness and perfect efficiency. Some Higher Inspiration is certainly at play in their work, I call it style. I am afraid that without style, coaching reverses into stultifying boredom. Neil and Vicki implicitly demonstrated that effective coaching is 80% style, the rest flows naturally.
*****
At the beginning of our coaching journey we recognised that, if successful, the coaching programme would not just introduce a new leadership style but bring about significant cultural change moving us towards the open, participative and high energy culture we desired. The choice of coaching provider was critical and therefore we devised a rigorous selection process. Our choice of CECO felt right from the start and our partnership proved to be an outstanding combination not just in terms of coaching delivery but also as evidenced by 'hard' results, from which we continue to benefit from as the coaching philosophy builds throughout the Society'. CECO's professionalism, flexibility and expertise helped us to achieve our objectives and more'.
*****
I wanted to thank you for all your fantastic input. I did the corporate coaching course which you were both on and found your presentations and tutoring to be extremely informative, highly relevant and very effective. I am now successfully running my own corporate coaching company called Transform which I would never have been able to do without attending your courses. All the best and I hope our paths will cross again one day.
*****
I just wanted to give you my heartfelt thanks for all the joy, knowledge, energy, enthusiasm, focus and self belief you have helped enter my life. In your time presenting you say you have worked with over 4000 delegates and if they got even half of what I got from being taught by both of you then your contribution is enormous. Consider then all lives that those 4000 people have touched using the skills taught by you both and your contribution becomes immense.
*****
I have been using the tools within group environments over the last 2 weeks (the Iceberg, imposed / chosen change 2x2 & the change curve) as the starting point for some presentations that the teams then get about some process changes that they need to implement. I have had great feedback & most importantly it has had a great impact on their reception to change & their thinking about things - especially as many of them are in a 'negative slump' at this stage (2+ months into the company transition). |
