FAQs

• To maximise the success of your business, company or organisation
• To increase your personal effectiveness, success and satisfaction at work
• To ensure a competitive edge in your business by creative a highly self-aware,          responsible and effective team
• To access excellent communication and presentation skills training
• To talk through challenges, decisions and choices
• To manage change and stress
• To improve relationships at work
• To explore fresh ideas and gain new perspectives

• We are a down-to-earth 'no gimmicks' organisation, specialising in clear, straightforward support
• We do not have a formula into which everyone must fit - we are highly flexible and respond to each person as an individual
• We are trained in psychotherapy and counselling as well as in personal and professional development, so we can identifiy and resolve the personal issues that may prevent people from being their best at work
• We are passionate about providing widespread access to coaching and we provide excellence at reasonable cost
• We are an ethical and highly respected organisation - see our testimonials page

• Creating excellence
• Team building
• Conflict resolution
• Managing change
• Interpersonal skills
• Managing difficult relationships
• Communication skills
• Presentations
• Motivating a troubled staff team
• Ways to deliver a challenging project
• Appraisals: giving and receiving
• Finding a new job
• Ways to gain promotion
• Returning to work after a break
• Deciding on a career change
• Rationalising the demands of an over-busy portfolio career
• Finding the right advisors to develop a new business
• Coping with stress
• Time management
• Self-belief and self-esteem
• Assessing your strengths and weaknesses
• Managing up and managing down
• Is it too late for change?

That you are working with Working Edge and anything you say in a Working Edge setting is entirely confidential.  In organisation, group and individual sessions, your coach will run through confidentiality, including areas where confidentiality can become complicated, for example, where a coach is asked to report back to senior management or HR or where a coach is asked to write a court report.

In Working Edge group or organisational settings, each participant commits to maintaining confidentiality. Everything said is confidential, as is who else is a member of the session or group. You can talk about anything concerning yourself, anything the facilitators say, and of course, the fact that you are in the group.

Kathy Gale and Harriet Spicer facilitate the meetings and there is a maximum of
six participants.

•  Managing up and managing down
•  Is it too late for change?

Where?
The Healthy Living Centre, 282-284 St Paul's Road, London N1 2LH 020 7704 6900.
 

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When?
The groups take place between 6.30-9.30pm.

They are scheduled in 3 sets of 5-6 fortnightly meetings spread across the year with
breaks at Easter, summer and Christmas. Contact us for details.

Harriet Spicer and Kathy Gale, who have both run their own businesses and who
have between them worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors. They both
have many years' experience and training in personal development work.

For individual coaching, we suggest you commit to a minimum of six sessions and then discuss further sessions with your coach.

Our work with organizations is individually tailored to meet your needs.  Please contact us to discuss this further.

For Working Edge groups, we have found that the longer the same group of people stays together, the more rewarding the experience becomes, and Working Edge groups are often most effective as a continuing resource in your life.  We ask everyone who joins to pay for 6 meetings in advance. You pay for the six sessions whether or not you are able to attend.

You commit to our policy on confidentiality and must keep confidential anything
said by other participants in the group and who the other participants are. If you wish, you are of course free to talk about anything you have said in the group and the fact that you are a member of the group. This confidentiality agreement exists to build and protect openness and trust between everyone in the group.

For individual coaching and mentoring, Harriet charges £65 per 50-minute session.  Kathy charges between £65-£100 per 50-minute session.

For the groups, we ask for payment for 6 sessions in advance and the cost per session is £60.00.

Charges to organizations depend on the length and nature of the work required.  Please contact us to discuss this further.

Some people pay themselves and others arrange for their companies to do so.
We are happy to accept either arrangement.

Where organizations approach us to work with individuals in their team, it is usual for the organization to pay.

“Working Edge offers excellent opportunities to identify solutions that helped
me face varied challenges in my work. I was given lots of encouragement that helped me produce immediate results and ways forward in my career."

“Working Edge has offered me time and space to look objectively at my current situation, and to begin to consider new pathways.  Harriet and Kathy are inspirational group leaders who gather together highly intelligent, stimulating and thoughtful participants in an open and supportive environment.  I leave each session with a sense of renewal, and full of admiration for all involved."

“We called on Kathy Gale when our organisation was merging with another, to advise us how best to restructure and develop our publications department.  Kathy spent time with each company and talked to all staff members concerned with a great deal of sensitivity.  She researched the history and performance of the department, analysed our business plans and helped us to recruit a new Head of Department.  We implemented Kathy's suggestions and our publications department has revolutionised its performance, making a much stronger contribution to our organisation ." Rachel Thomson, Senior Programme Director - Campaigns, the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)

“Working Edge provided me with a fantastic opportunity to talk about relationships
and challenges at work in a safe and confidential environment.”

“Working Edge offers the chance to really think about how you manage your life, both at work and at home, and why you respond the way you do.  And when issues are discussed, and patterns of behaviour examined - and hence seen with more
objectivity - you can consider real change. Taking part left me feeling calmer, clearer - and considerably happier.”

Most testimonials here are not credited because Working Edge work is confidential.

People have come to Working Edge with enthusiasm, with anxiety, with particular issues and generalised feelings that something is not working. To be looking for positive development of some kind is all that it takes.

• You might have fun
• Discover unexpected new ideas and insights
• Avoid re-inventing wheels
• Create a supportive peer network
• Surprise yourself