Shirley Thompson

Coach Supervisor - Southampton

Shirley is a highly-experienced Performance and Leadership Coach, NLP Practitioner, and mentors/supervises new coaches. Shirley enjoys group work either as coach supervisor or coach. She also promotes 'Responsible Conversation' to help project managers and technical leaders to become aware of coaching skills and to use them effectively, for improved communication, relationships and collaboration.

Supervisor, mentor & coach
With an approachable, supportive, and challenging stance ( this has been called "a unique push and pull strategy"), and with a pragmatic worldview and its emphasis on social hope, Shirley alternates between being coach, supervisor, and mentor. She firmly believes that coaching and supervision underpin learning for professional development. Group work can bring new perspectives for reflection and awareness.
Her coaching aims to facilitate the thinking process through listening, observational feedback and relevant questioning and trusts this brings the insight needed. Shirley strives towards a partnership that focuses on the thinker’s agenda. Increasingly the emphasis is on the contracting of conversations which seems to help personal growth and wisdom around human relationships.
Responsible Conversation is a focus in all her work with the aim of raising awareness and understanding of intention of relationship. The emphasis for all is to negotiate well for personal needs and wants, to supporting increased awareness and responsibility. She aims to support coaches and leaders improve their own coaching skills for everyday work conversations. Practice instils belief in inner knowing.

Responsible Project Management
Shirley is involved in the Responsible Project Management initiative (see ResponsiblePM.com which seeks to support project managers to broaden their responsibilities to people and planet issues, not just profit. Yet project professionals are already time-pressured; project managers typically have the world on their shoulders and need to empower others and delegate. The constant ‘doing’ can inhibit any pause for reflection, collaboration with the team or negotiation with stakeholders.

Mentoring programme for PMI UK
While Shirley acts as mentor 1:1, usually for communication skills, she also helps to run the mentoring programme for PMI UK. She is passionate about introducing project managers to coach skills, which was the basis of her doctoral research enabling project managers to better understand how to flex their soft skills at work.

Motivational maps accreditation
Shirley has ACC coach and PMP project manager credentials with ICF and PMI respectively. She is also accredited to use Motivational Maps, which help individuals, teams and an organisation better understand their motivation and performance levels.

Contact
Find out more about Shirley on her website shirleythompson.biz or Linked In profile at: www.linkedin.com/in/shirley-thompson-b021271

To discuss your own opportunity for change and to explore whether Shirley can help sort out what’s been bothering you, call 07793 745 450