Julie Hutchison
Category Leadership
We help tech organisations to build performance and productivity by helping senior leaders to communicate more confidently, resolve internal conflict, stay calm and resilient under pressure, and show up with positive impact, so they can build high performing teams, who deliver a positive return on the organisation’s investment in people.
About
We help tech organisations to build performance and productivity by helping senior leaders to communicate more confidently, resolve internal conflict, stay calm and resilient under pressure, and show up with positive impact, so they can build high performing, who deliver a positive return on the organisation’s investment in people.
The Issue
People are often the biggest expense in a business, yet difficult people Issues are one of the biggest contributors to poor outcomes and increased delivery costs.
We often see conflict, ego clashes, reactive behaviours, and poor communication in leaders and their teams. This results in higher costs, high turnover of staff, inefficient meetings, low productivity, and poor team performance.
All too often, leaders do not have the softer skills or knowledge to deal effectively with these issues, or to build the relationships they need to create a thriving team.
How we help
We focus on working with organisations to remove these barriers & equip leaders and their teams to build positive impact and collaboration for performance.
We help leaders to build high performing teams by enabling them to:
- Build trust with teams to engage and motivate people to do deliver their best work
- Boost communication skills for managers, leaders, and technical employees
- Be confident in having difficult conversations and to avoid or remove conflict from the workplace
- Accelerate team cohesion and commitment in order to bring focus and momentum to organisational goals
- Grow collaborative, high functioning teams that produce excellent results for the organisation
Who are we
Led by Julie, an award-winning Leadership & Impact Coach and Speaker, we support senior leaders to develop communication skills, influence, and soft skills to accelerate results by removing friction and growing productivity in the organisation.
Her previous experience as a Police Inspector and earlier manufacturing background have given her a practical, down-to-earth approach and taught her the art of leading people through high stress situations and building high stakes relationships in challenging teams.
Julie’s mission is to help leaders move from being reactive and unproductive to being responsive and impactful, by creating a safe, trusted environment for direct conversation, honest vulnerability, and challenge, so that leaders are able to confidently tackle the tricky people issues affecting performance.
She is an engaging speaker, trainer and coach with an interactive style that invites interaction and openness on topics that leaders can sometimes find intimidating and challenging.
Specialisms
- Impact and Behavioural Coaching to grow confident positive impact in leaders
- Performance & Executive Coaching
- Imposter Syndrome Coaching to help leaders get out of their own way and have the confidence to step up and lead
- Communication coaching and training to build confidence in speaking up to lead
- Soft Skills training and coaching for technical employees and leaders
- Team Cohesion to uncover friction between team members and solve issues
- Reactive Leadership coaching -removing reactive behaviours, creating calm, confident leadership
- Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management training to support managers in dealing with difficult people & conversations
- Team Culture and Collaboration to uncover issues that drain performance of teams
- DISC Behavioural Profiling – a coaching tool to support teams to understand behavioural styles, improve collaboration and flow
Testimonials
“What a turn-round! She went from terrible 360 feedback, (people leaving because of her), to building a resilient, capable team who are with her all the way.” General Manager, Tech Manufacturing
“I grappled with self-confidence and faced mounting pressure to achieve company goals. What impressed me was the course’s fresh and engaging content, coupled with exceptional presentation. It’s been pivotal in recent successes.” CTO – Tech Consultancy
Symptoms you might be noticing in your teams
- The culture of leadership negatively impacts performance
- 360 feedback is poor
- Limited Soft Skills causing tensions amongst team
- Imposter syndrome holds good leaders back from stepping up
- Blame culture creating risk averse team
- Reactive leaders are creating an exodus from the department
Examples of how we can help
- Bespoke In-house or on-line workshops
- Exec and team coaching programmes (group and one to one)
- Confident Conflict – Interactive workshop on dealing with conflict, difficult people, conversations & situations
- Confident Communicator 6-week online programme
- Softs Skills for Tech teams Workshop
- The Impact Accelerator – 6-week programme to build confidence in leading people
Qualifications
Julie is a member of the ILM and CMI and has a First Class Degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Management, NLP and Coaching Qualifications and is a licensed DISC trainer.
What next?
If you are responsible for supporting leaders to be effective and productive, please get in touch using the contact form below.
