​Hello from Shirley,
How are you and what/whose intentions are you following?
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My main intention is to collaborate using professional coaching philosophy, alongside the principles of Responsible Project Management.
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Coaching isn’t about hints and tips or guidance —it’s about collaborative conversations
If you're only using coaching for performance and efficiency, you’re missing its true power. Coaching is a space for honest, open, and reflective conversations—where real leadership and ethical decision-making take shape.
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Beyond performance: coaching for stronger stakeholder relationships!
When you create a space for genuine dialogue, your stakeholders, teams, and colleagues benefit too. Could your coaching skills help you build trust, improve collaboration, and strengthen ethical leadership?
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Coaching isn’t just a leadership tool—it also negotiates responsibility-taking!
Professional coaching isn’t about control; it’s about engaging others in ethical, equal-power conversations. Leadership isn’t just about directing—it’s about how well you listen, challenge, and empower, so that others do their part and are motivated to grow.
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My intention and commitment to clients is to
✔ Act as a thought partner—helping you challenge assumptions and foster independent, ethical decision-making.
✔ Encourage responsible conversations—so coaching becomes a tool for open, trust-based dialogue, not just performance improvement.
✔ Help you master coaching philosophy—so you can apply it to your own growth, then empower others to do the same.
✔ Foster Responsible Project Management (RPM) principles—integrating systems thinking and adaptability into ethical project leadership.
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Ready to use coaching more effectively?
Let’s have a conversation about how coaching can help you lead responsibly, engage meaningfully, and create real impact.
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​Mentoring and self-awareness
If you're a PMI UK Member then consider the PMI UK Mentoring programme which incorporates the idea of Responsible Conversation and coaching. Acting as a mentor is a great way to practice essential skills. .
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Inspiration for your journey
Empowerment is about embracing self-responsibility and speaking from your inner wisdom. It involves understanding your motivations and responsibilities and balancing all needs to be met. How could defining empowerment this way inspire you?
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Book a free consultation (phone/zoom) for no obligation, mutual exploration of your needs and how I can help.
(I do charge for sample coaching session.)
Tel. 07793 745450
Please leave a message or contact me
Leaders,
I'm currently fascinated with the 'model of a person' that includes 4 areas
- authentic vision
- readiness
- insight
- skilful action
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Coaches like Leaders must work on all 4 to grow. Thoughts? It comes from this coach supervision article which I think could help with Responsible Conversation.
Turner, M. M. (2011). The three worlds four territories model of supervision. Coaching and mentoring supervision: Theory and practice, 41-54.
The author has more information on mikethementor.co.uk
Looking for coaching and not sure what to expect from coaching?
This document provides some metaphorical ideas, based on my love of tennis, to prepare your expectations of coaching. I'm happy to have a conversation about coaching. (Or how well the tennis metaphor works for you!).
See these links for more info about Responsible Conversation. and Shirley-Thompson-Responsible-Conversation.pdf (trustedcoachdirectory.com)
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Most recent publication:
- I contributed on leadership development to this handbook of Responsible Project Management published Feb23
- other publications are listed in LinkedIn profile
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Groups and teams can be greater than the sum of the individuals - and potentially even more innovative - but how often do we need remember that everyone is prioritising many demands on their time and noone is perfect especially in our imperfect and complex world?

High standards are encouraged and I want you to be the best you seek to be; yet seek perfection only as a direction of development. Let's partner on priorities, balance and ethics. Humans are unpredictable; thus innovative and fun; let's admire human spirit!