It can be costly for an organisation to replace an employee, and cybersecurity vacancies can be hard to fill. Studies have shown that retention management can be a source of competitive advantage. However in the cybersecurity realm, employees’ satisfaction and retention can be a matter of organisational security. Employees leave for all sorts of reasons, some of which your company can control: organisational culture, job satisfaction, workplace stress and conflict, poor management.
“People don’t leave jobs, they leave bosses”.
This is why coaching can help your organisation improve the controllables. Research shows that coaching your leaders and first line managers can have a beneficial ripple effect on the entire company.
Your investment in coaching will help solve those retention challenges. It will show your employees that they are supported, it will empower them and strengthen the bonds within the organisation.
Now more than ever, it is the time to nurture your existing talent, and to invest in the cyber leaders of tomorrow. As an independent coach with a specialist expertise in cybersecurity, I can help your employees perform at their best and develop those leadership and communication skills that will allow them to be more effective in working towards the business objectives.
“We have already invested in leadership training, why would we need coaching?”
If you have ever been on a course, you know very well that “what you don’t use, you lose”. This is not your fault, our brain simply works this way, to maintain its efficiency. For this reason, people going through leadership development programmes cannot learn these skills simply going through a course or by reading relevant material. Although these activities are important, it is even more important for leaders to have guided leadership experiences. They need a safe space where they can learn from their inevitable mistakes deriving from the new challenging situations they are facing.
Coaching is the perfect follow up to leadership training. It helps your leaders be accountable while they practice what they learnt. It offers them the opportunity to reflect on their mistakes and successes with the help of an expert.
As a specialist coach, I can be the right ally for the development of new and seasoned cybersecurity leaders within your organisation.
Coaching
Coaching for your cybersecurity team can be arranged to suit the needs of your business.
It normally includes:
1) Stakeholders meeting:
when we define the scope of the project
2) Tailored proposal
3) Trilateral meeting:
to define the goals for the coaching of each employee together with the line manager or with HR.
4) 360 assessment briefing
5) Coaching sessions as agreed
6) Regular updates
7) End of project meeting and evaluation
Training
I am available to deliver a range of mini trainings, workshops, informative talks both live or as video recordings.
Popular topics include but are not limited to:
- Overcoming Impostor Syndrome (this particular talk is informed by a detailed literature review and my own empirical study on the topic carried out as part of my MA)
- Assertiveness: getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
- Burnout in cybersecurity
- Managing change and transitions
- Creating high-performing teams
- Confidence at work