Lead: A Moss

Our resilience coaching module is science backed and delivered by a highly experienced and well regarded business psychologist and hypnotherapist. Amy helps participants understand the root cause of anxiety, the various manifestations of stress and how to develop a tool kit to manage it responsively in your day to day work and home. These are scientific, theory backed yet practical set of workshops for individuals or teams and receive high praise with each successive client. The practical approach helps makes the tools and approaches memorable and participants find that they are able to make positive habit forming decisions leading to more resilient behaviour as a result of the hands on workshops.

Results and Outcomes

· Improved resilience to manage day to day stress and anxiety

· A practical resilience tool kit that you can access from anywhere at anytime

· Improved wellbeing and health

Lead: Jim B

Our sales coaching and business development training module enables individuals and teams to understand different sales styles and approaches. It helps them build an understanding of how their styles compare, respective strengths and improvement areas. We use a science backed psychometric approach, which compares an individual’s style to their team members and the rest of the organisation. It helps build a productive and ongoing dialogue in the team and encourages clarity around what sales people should do more, keep doing, do less and stop doing to be more successful. Our coach Jim B then coaches the individuals on their development areas and achieving the right balance over time. Assured to deliver higher sales performance and results.

Results and Outcomes

· An assessment of your sales approach and method compared to a peer group

· An understanding of your individual sales styles and preferences

· 1-1 sales coaching and a corresponding improvement plan 

Lead: Anthony G

Every business needs good writers and communicators. Being able to articulate key messages and communicate strategy in a succinct and impactful manner can have a positive impact on performance.

We support you in:

1. Improving communication with your clients and colleagues

2. Business writing & story telling

3. Bid responses and RFPs

Results and Outcomes

· Communicate confidently and simply with clients and team members

· Use story telling as a competitive advantage

· Win more bids and tenders by improving your win rate

Lead: N Sushko

Employers have a duty of care to managers and must provide a level playing field to their aspiring managers and senior managers. Managing and leading a team is not just an art, and with the right tools and training most people can become high performing managers.

We help build:

1. Competency frameworks

2. Performance assessment and management approaches

3. Organisation Design and promotion pathways

Results and Outcomes

· Assess and support performance fairly and constructively

· Have a common language around competencies and capabilities

· Motivate managers to improve and enhance team performance

Lead: Adil K

This is one of our favourite coaching modules because it supports our genuine belief in human potential. Middle management is the bedrock of an organisation and if supported well can help the employer achieve its growth ambitions faster and more sustainably. Organisations in today’s unpredictable landscape do not have the capacity nor the time to provide the support managers deserve to achieve their long term potential. Typically, it is too late to provide them the right support once they are already managing greater responsibility in more senior roles. Our coaches ensure they help coach these individuals up for success by equipping them with a greater self awareness of their strengths and development areas, building confidence, effective communication habits, team collaboration skills, and the ability to manage ambiguity and uncertainty.

Results and Outcomes

· Grow and support your own organic talent and be less reliant on the external market

· Help people progress into senior and leadership roles achieving their true potential

· Satisfied middle managers with better team collaboration, communication and performance.

Lead: A Bull

Our team of coaches equip female leaders with the tools and confidence they may require to take on greater responsibility and help achieve their true potential in the workplace. They are geared towards helping manage imposter syndrome, confidence building, communication skills, team leadership and enhancing self belief and achieving wellbeing. This module is geared towards high potential female managers and leaders who are aspiring for senior leadership roles. It supports female leaders in owning their own independent style, not feeling as though they need to fit in and helps them become more impactful and self empowered leaders.

Results and Outcomes

· More successful female leaders in the organisation

· A better mix of gender diversity in the organisation

· Being true to your values and providing equal opportunities

Lead: T Missiha

This team coaching module helps teams understand each others strengths and how to make the best out of a complimentary team setting. It helps team members understand themselves better using psychometric approaches and styles and better understand each others communication preferences and styles. This helps address any existing or potential conflict in the team, uncover hidden potential and enables leaders and managers to make better resourcing decisions for projects and functions. It also enables individuals to broaden their repertoire of skills and approaches instead of relying too heavily on a dominant style or preference.

Results and Outcomes

· A better understanding of self, strengths and development areas 

· A better understanding of team members using a common language  

· A psychometric profile that you can use to build and manage your development plan

· A higher performing team and individuals with more confidence and camaraderie

Lead: G Bundell

Our confidence and communication skills coaching module is geared towards building more confidence in the workplace. This includes communicating with your team, making impactful presentations, influencing senior stakeholders, having a confident presence in networking settings and honing presentation skills (which is not everyone's favourite activity). 

We recognise that communication does not come naturally to everyone, and nearly everyone can improve their communication and presentation style. Our module helps individuals become aware of their strengths, style and improve on the areas that require attention.

Results and Outcomes

· Learning and practicing different communication styles for different audiences  

· Building the confidence to stretch yourself to communicate outside your comfort zone

· Presenting to audiences in your natural and self empowered style

Lead: Alice B

In a fast moving, ambitious and volatile landscape reaching true potential is about managing emotions, equipping yourself with stress management mechanisms and understanding thought patterns and their effects on physiology and behaviour. Our approach relies on sophrology a mixture of gentle movement, breathing techniques, meditation and positive visualisations. It guides individuals and teams through a series of Sophrology exercises to help them relax their bodies, calm their inner voice, think more clearly and feel more empowered. Used widely in Europe for over 60 years, Sophrology is a self-help method that is commonly used in business, healthcare and by elite athletes and sports teams.

Results and Outcomes

· Preparation for peak performance

· Imposter Syndrome management techniques

· Peri-Menopause & Menopause management for female leaders

Team Lead: A Khan

Feedback has been recognised as a key lever of differentiation in highly productive and successful workplaces. Blue Astral's, developing a feedback culture workshops support companies and teams to design and roll out a common language and approach to providing and receiving feedback. This approach ensures that the organisation has an approved feedback model, understood by everybody which enables transparent communication, more effective performance appraisal, transparency and consistency in communicating difficult messages. This is one aspect of team building and communication that can be a gamechanger if adopted by organisations, it also has a huge positive impact on taking away unnecessary stress and anxiety amongst teams, leaders and managers.

Results and Outcomes

· An understanding of balanced feedback communication models

· An understanding of the feedback model encouraged by your employer

· Practical training to provide and receive feedback 

Lead: Dr. Manjari

In a high growth organisation achieving true diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) can make the difference between a company staying true to its values and attracting the best most complimentary talent in the market, versus recruiting more of the same and diluting it’s employer value proposition over time. In this highly competitive talent landscape, if DEI is not done right you reduce your chances of achieving your talent acquisition & retention targets, and your growth ambitions become even more challenging to achieve. Blue Astral's DEI program and individual coaching helps build a common understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion whilst helping leaders and managers understand their conscious and un-concious bias. This is paramount to companies thriving and establishing credibility in the talent market. Delivered by a cohort of industry leaders and one of the UK’s leading PHDs on DEI.   

Results and Outcomes

· An understanding of true diversity, equity and inclusion

· An understanding of your employers approach and strategy for DEI

· A practical model and roadmap for implementation embedded across the organisation

Lead: A Khan

New senior hires and promotions are strewn with risk and a high failure rate. Our transition planning coaching is a 3 month programme which enables managers and leaders to take on a more senior position in the same or different area within their company or join a new company and make a successful transition. It enables senior new joiners to build a roadmap to understand and navigate the landscape of the new team or company that they have joined, from a cultural, people, systems and process perspective, standing them in good stead for a successful and more seamless transition into the new role.

Results and Outcomes

· A successful transition into your new company or functional area

· A roadmap and tool for navigating a new workplace culture

· A successful transition into you new leadership role