James Hudson

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Qualified Performance & Leadership Coach
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location_on Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8BW
Available for new clients
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About me

Coaching: Your Fastest Route to Success

Unlock your full potential and conquer obstacles with our coaching program. We're so confident in its effectiveness that if you haven't seen progress in the first 30 days, we'll refund your investment.

Leadership Coaching: Unlock Your Leadership Potential

Leading a team or managing finances can be daunting, but our coaching programs offer comprehensive support and guidance to help you excel:

Understanding Personality Dynamics: Gain insights into different personality types and learn how to leverage profiling tools for effective leadership.
Effective Communication: Master various communication styles to foster better relationships and enhance team dynamics.
Strategic Leadership: Develop leadership strategies tailored to your unique challenges and organizational goals.
Team Building: Cultivate a cohesive and high-performing team through strategic team-building exercises and initiatives.
Coaching Skills: Learn proven coaching techniques to empower your team members and unlock their full potential.
Confidence Building: Boost your confidence as a leader and inspire confidence in your team members to achieve collective success.


Business Coaching for SMEs: Propel Your Business Forward

Navigating the complexities of running a small or medium-sized business requires expert guidance and support. Our coaching services provide tailored solutions to address your specific business needs:

Comprehensive Business Evaluation: Conduct a thorough business health check and audit to identify areas for improvement and growth opportunities.
Sales and Procurement Training: Equip your team with the skills and strategies needed to drive sales and effectively manage procurement processes.
Strategic Marketing Planning: Develop a customized marketing action plan to enhance brand visibility and attract your target audience.
Market Analysis: Identify gaps in the market and capitalize on emerging trends to stay ahead of the competition.
Business Growth Strategies: Explore strategies for scaling your business and expanding into new markets while ensuring sustainable growth.
Enhanced Productivity: Implement productivity-enhancing measures to streamline operations and maximize efficiency across your organization.

With our leadership and business coaching programs, you'll gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to lead with authority, drive business success, and achieve your long-term goals. Partner with us today to embark on a transformative journey towards personal and professional excellence.

Wellbeing: Elevate Your Physical and Emotional Health

In today's hectic world, prioritizing your wellbeing is essential. Our AEGIS Mountain life coaching system empowers you to:

Transform your lifestyle: Shift from diets to sustainable eating habits and commit to 30 minutes of daily exercise.
Surround yourself with positivity: Cultivate a supportive network of individuals with a growth mindset.
Embrace opportunities: Discover the silver lining in every challenge.
Find purpose: Engage in meaningful activities that enrich your life and contribute to a greater cause.
Practice gratitude: Foster appreciation for life's blessings and express thanks daily.
Foster forgiveness: Release negative emotions and focus on personal growth and forward progress.
Seek balance: Harmonize your heart, mind, body, and spirit for holistic wellness.
 

Time Management: Master Your Schedule

Time is precious, and effective time management is the key to achieving your goals. Our coaching helps you:

Prioritize tasks: Focus on what truly matters and avoid distractions.
Delegate responsibilities: Empower others and free up time for essential activities.
Plan strategically: Factor in travel time, breaks, and reflection periods in your schedule.
Streamline tasks: Group similar activities to maximize efficiency.
Optimize productivity: Make the most of every moment and minimize wasted time.


Career Development: Reach Your Professional Goals

Whether you're an entrepreneur or climbing the corporate ladder, our coaching equips you to:

Set clear goals: Define your objectives and create a road map for success.
Cultivate expertise: Position yourself as a leader and innovator in your industry.
Lead effectively: Manage tasks efficiently and inspire others to excel.
Solve challenges: Harness the power of customer feedback to overcome obstacles.
Prioritize marketing: Elevate your brand visibility and attract your ideal clientele.
Adapt and evolve: Embrace change proactively and stay ahead of the curve in your field.

AEGIS Mountain Coaching Guide 

WHAT IS COACHING?

Coaching is a transformative process aimed at enhancing individuals' lives. By accelerating personal growth and equipping clients with essential tools, coaches empower them to surmount obstacles and achieve their aspirations. Through profound questioning, coaches foster self-reflection, enabling clients to continually progress even beyond coaching sessions.

Coaching sessions are client-led and forward-looking, fostering empowerment and sustainable results. Coaches employ proven questioning and listening techniques to help employees define clear goals and develop effective strategies. By challenging existing beliefs and perspectives, coaching encourages creativity and promotes innovative problem-solving approaches.

As a supportive guide, coaches serve as sounding boards, prompting clients to reconsider their self-perceptions and approach to challenges. By fostering positive self-communication and strategic thinking, coaches aid in devising actionable plans, maintaining motivation, and ensuring goal alignment for optimal personal growth and success.

FIRST 100 DAYS OF NEW ROLE COACHING:

The initial phase of a new job sets the tone for both the employee's success and the company's productivity. Our tailored coaching service for the first 100 days ensures that employees hit the ground running, maximizing their potential and contributing effectively to the organization.

Coaching during this critical period offers invaluable support as employees navigate the transition, fostering rapid integration, work-life balance, and confidence. With guidance on prioritization, effective communication, and goal setting, employees are empowered to uphold high standards for themselves and the company.

Through targeted coaching sessions, employees address challenges inherent in any new role, from goal alignment to action planning. Reflection on both short-term objectives and long-term aspirations fosters growth and adaptation. Ultimately, coaching enhances employee retention and motivation, securing long-term success for both individuals and the organization.

LEADERSHIP COACHING FOR MANAGERS:

Leadership isn't innate; it's developed. Our coaching equips managers with the tools to articulate vision, enhance communication, and foster alignment with organizational values. This cultivates a motivated team that executes strategies swiftly and innovatively, driving problem-solving capabilities to new heights.

Managers benefit from proactive guidance on building effective relationships and adjusting behaviours to excel in their leadership roles. Over the past century, leadership has evolved into a critical managerial skill, and coaching serves as a valuable resource for leaders, whether they lead from the front or behind.

Leadership coaching also prompts managers to lead themselves, unlocking personal and collective potential within the team.

PERFORMANCE COACHING:

Performance coaching elevates individual performance by empowering individuals to unlock their potential through guided conversation and introspection. Coaches facilitate awareness and reflection, empowering clients to devise their solutions and strategies. Through honest dialogue and challenging perceptions, performance coaching empowers clients to overcome obstacles and return to peak performance.

SALES COACHING:

Salespeople are akin to business athletes, where confidence plays a pivotal role. Yet, confidence can fluctuate, affecting performance. That's why personalised coaching sessions with a seasoned sales trainer, separate from their manager and conducted in a confidential setting, are paramount. This approach ensures consistently high performance from your sales teams, even amidst the ever-evolving landscape of today's business world.

BUSINESS STRATEGY COACHING:

Centred on strategy and goal setting, our approach encompasses various crucial areas: Marketing and Product Delivery: We strategise and execute plans to effectively bring products or services to market, ensuring seamless delivery and customer satisfaction. Advertising and Performance Measurement: Through rigorous testing and measuring, we evaluate advertising strategies to maximise success and optimize ROI. Procurement and Partnership Building: We establish robust partnerships with reliable business entities, ensuring favourable procurement processes and strategic alliances that align with your mission. Team Building and Talent Acquisition: Leveraging advanced profiling tools, we identify top talent and facilitate team-building activities to foster a cohesive and high-performing workforce. Communication Enhancement: We focus on enhancing communication skills at both individual and team levels, fostering clarity, alignment, and effectiveness in achieving organisational goals.

CAREER MANAGEMENT:

FOR COMPANIES: Coaching high-potential employees nurtures talent, fostering goal-setting and development focus. This investment drives performance and accountability, preparing future leaders to fulfil their potential.

FOR INDIVIDUALS: Navigating career changes or uncertainty can be daunting. Coaching provides support to leverage existing skills, tap into untapped potential, and confidently pursue new opportunities.

CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION COACHING:

Navigating change and resolving conflicts can be challenging, with many initiatives failing to succeed. Coaching guides employees, managers, and leaders through these transitions, fostering alternative perspectives and positive communication. Conflict resolution coaching fosters trust, aligns values, and sets common goals, reducing stress and enabling teams to focus on shared objectives.

TEAM/GROUP COACHING: 

Crafting impactful team meetings with tangible outcomes. Collaboratively establish a shared goal where each team member possesses a distinct role and comprehension of their contribution to achieving success. Encourage your team to venture beyond their comfort zones, fostering camaraderie and unity. Our sessions encompass various elements including change management, conflict resolution, articulating company vision and mission statements, and engaging activities such as board breaking and firewalking. Tailored to each business, our programs are meticulously designed to resonate with the company's values and aspirations, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.


 

Training, qualifications & experience

Trained and qualified as well as continually enhancing skills through participation in various coaching programs including the Coaching Academy, Personal and Corporate Coaching Diplomas, as well as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner certification, proficient DISC & Insights profiling. Additionally, received training in intervention and business coaching through Robbins Research, Alongside these, I've engaged with numerous other training providers and research companies to continually expand my knowledge and expertise in coaching and personal development.

TESTIMONIALS

LYNETTE CLAPHAM

COACHING CLIENT

My Coach, James Hudson, has helped me through some very challenging times during my career working in failing schools.

Whilst coaching me through scenarios, he has ensured I have always kept my end goal in sight whilst helping me work through any obstacles along the way. Towards the end of the 6 week programme, I was able to self-coach, using the techniques James had taught me. He challenged me, pushed me outside my comfort zone and I know I will continue to use the skills I have worked on during the sessions into the next stage of my career.

I thoroughly enjoyed being coached by James and would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone else.

JANE BLAKEBOROUGH
COACHING CLIENT

I would recommend AEGIS Mountain to anyone who requires a gentle ‘kick up the backside’ to get themselves out of a rut and moving forward.

My Coach, James Hudson is enthusiastic, positive and kind, at the same time as being straight-talking and not allowing you to feel sorry for yourself.

James’ timely input means that my business is now back on track, but if I ever get stuck in that rut again, he will be the first person I call.

Nick Dymoke-Marr
Managing Director at Langtons Gin Ltd

I met James a few years ago having been recommended to him by a friend. I'd been through a bad time with work and was finding it difficult to deal with. Worst of all I didn't know how to talk about what had happened even with my family and closest friends. James firstly put me at ease, encouraged me to hold nothing back and was a great listener. Over the next weeks we met often and he helped me understand and come to terms with my situation. His mentoring and advice gave me a new outlook on life and was the catalyst for a change in direction that was liberating and now going from strength to strength. Thanks James

Alexander Greetham
Regional Sales Manager at Hatch Mansfield

I worked with James when I started at Hatch. He showed me some great techniques which I still use today. Although I had a good track record of selling wine Hatch was different to companies I worked for before. However I got off to a flying start and I defiantly think James was part of that.

DARREN DOUGLAS
Adviser Support Manager at Transact

James is a highly infectious individual. He brings his enthusiasm and expertise in life coaching. He makes it easy to understand and set achievable but stretching goals. Always positive, very astute and takes a personal enjoyment in helping others succeed.

Peter Thompson
Head of Operations at New Chapter

James is an accomplished Coach who has provided guidance and support to myself and colleagues. He focuses on the individual rather than the subject and takes the time to understand different learning styles.
James has the ability to develop people by drawing out their aspirations and has a reflective rather than directive approach and I would recommend him to any individual or business who may be looking to develop and implement a change in mind-set

Nick Lea
UK Sales Controller Catalyst Brands RTM.

James is probably one of the most passionate energetic individuals I have come across displaying huge leadership qualities along with a determined drive to succeed. James is self-driven and has the ability to take people on the journey with him because he believes 100% in goals setting. If anybody needs somebody to talk to about improving your confidence or just on how to take the next step to improve your life and believe in your abilities talk to James

Areas of coaching I deal with

Fees

£120.00 - £1,000.00
Free initial in-person, telephone or online session

Additional information

One to one sessions, group sessions & half or full day workshops 

When I work

Weekdays & Evenings

29 Wheatley Lane, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8BW

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