Coaching for Organisations

When growth starts to depend on better leadership

Your business has grown; now the way people lead, make decisions, and work together needs to catch up. Perhaps too much still comes back to the founder. Managers are capable but inconsistent. A leadership team is avoiding the conversations that matter. Or good people are working hard in a system that makes progress harder than it needs to be. Skillslocal coaching helps founders, leaders and teams work out what is really happening, make confident decisions and turn insight into practical change.

You might not have a coaching problem

The obvious answer might be coaching or training. Sometimes it is. Sometimes something else is getting in the way.

Before recommending a solution, we look at the person, the challenge and the conditions around them. Is this really a confidence issue? Or are expectations unclear? Does a manager need to delegate better? Or does every important decision routinely get taken back from them?

We get underneath the symptoms before adding another intervention to everybody’s diary. Then we focus on what will actually make a difference.

Coaching can help when

• Everything still comes back to the founder or senior team

• Managers have been promoted but not properly supported to lead

• Leadership behaviour varies from one team to another

• Accountability is unclear, and decisions keep being revisited

• A capable leader has lost confidence or is carrying too much

• Growth, succession or organisational change requires leaders to step up

• Difficult relationships or avoided conversations are affecting performance

• Previous training created enthusiasm but little lasting change

What changes when coaching works

• Founders and senior leaders spend less time firefighting

• Managers make decisions and take ownership with greater confidence

• Leadership becomes more consistent across the organisation

• Difficult conversations happen earlier and more constructively

• Teams become clearer about priorities, responsibilities and follow-through

• People apply what they learn between sessions rather than returning to old habits

The precise outcomes depend on the situation. We agree what useful progress looks like at the start and review the evidence as the work develops.

Choose the right coaching route

Business & Leadership Coaching

One-to-one coaching for founders, directors, senior leaders and managers taking on greater responsibility. Create space to think strategically, understand your impact and lead with greater clarity and confidence.

Team Coaching

For leadership teams and established teams that need clearer accountability, stronger working relationships and more consistent follow-through.

Coaching Programmes for Organisations

A joined-up blend of one-to-one, team and group coaching, connected to the organisation’s leadership priorities and wider development activity.

Group Coaching & Action Learning

Structured learning for leaders who want trusted challenge and practical insight from people facing similar pressures.

Individual Coaching

Confidential coaching for an employee navigating changing responsibilities, confidence, career development, wellbeing or a significant work transition.

How coaching works

1. Understand what is happening

We begin with a chemistry and discovery conversation. We explore the challenge, what you want to be different and whether coaching is the right response.

2. Agree useful outcomes

We establish clear objectives, responsibilities, confidentiality and review points. Where an organisation sponsors the coaching, shared outcomes are agreed without compromising the confidential relationship.

3. Coach, test and apply

Sessions create space to reflect, challenge assumptions and make decisions. Between sessions, clients try something useful: delegate a decision, have the conversation, change a meeting or notice a recurring pattern.

4. Review the difference

We review progress against the original objectives and decide what happens next. That may mean completing the coaching, moving to occasional check-ins or connecting the work to wider leadership and organisational development.

Coaching connected to the wider business

A leader does not work in a vacuum. Behaviour is shaped by expectations, relationships, priorities, culture and the systems around them.

That is why Skillslocal can connect coaching with leadership development, team facilitation, DISC, WRaW, organisational diagnostics, the Flourish® Framework and Investors in People support. You get a response shaped around the real issue, not a coaching package looking for somewhere to land.

Practical support between sessions

Where useful, CoachPro provides one place for priorities, actions, reflections and evidence of progress. Selected tools or learning from the Skillslocal platform can reinforce the work between sessions. The technology keeps things organised; the relationship remains thoroughly human.

Meet your coach

I’m Tracy Duggan, a professionally qualified PCC coach with more than 30 years’ experience supporting leaders, teams and growing organisations.

My style is warm, curious and straight-talking. I will give you space to think, challenge what does not quite add up and ask the question you may have been carefully avoiding.

What clients say

“Tracy provided just the right level of challenge, responding to my needs in the session, but pushing me to think about old issues in a new way. She helped me work through the mental noise to clearer solutions and tangible next steps.”

Jess Tudor-Williams, kscopehealth

“Tracy’s ability to listen, understand and reflect on difficult challenges helped me find workable solutions, refocus and change the direction of my business.”

Clare Bailey, The Retail Champion

“Tracy’s approach is down to earth, accessible and friendly, with a sense of humour. I have grown in clarity, confidence and understanding of what my next steps should be.”

Rebecca Morris-Buck, Project Manager

Not sure which option you need?

You do not need to diagnose the solution before speaking to me. Bring the challenge you keep coming back to. We will work out what may be happening, whether coaching is the right response and what a sensible next step looks like.

Investment

Good coaching should lead somewhere useful. It should also be shaped around the person, team, and organisation, not squeezed into an identical package.

Individual coaching programmes start from £1,800 + VAT.

Employer-sponsored business and leadership coaching starts from £2,500 + VAT per leader.

Team coaching programmes start from £6,500 + VAT.

Wider in-house coaching and leadership programmes start from £6,500 + VAT.

Your final investment will depend on the required outcomes, number of participants, programme length, and whether diagnostics, sponsor reviews, or wider organisational support are included.

We will agree the scope, responsibilities and full cost before the work begins. No mysterious extras will appear halfway through; a proposal and contract will support what we agree.

Each year, I reserve four coaching packages for pro bono work and offer preferential rates for registered charities, subject to availability and an initial conversation about needs and fit.

Face-to-face coaching may involve additional travel costs, which we will always agree in advance. We will set out cancellation and rescheduling arrangements clearly in your coaching agreement before we begin.