Navigating Communication Challenges: How Coaching Can Make a Difference

Each communications challenge is unique, so the support you deserve should be too. Forefront Coaching delivers personalised coaching sessions built to identify your communications goals and develop your skill set to ensure you meet those targets. 

COMMON COMMUNICATIONS PITFALLS

Late in his career, Marlon Brando was asked if he still gets nervous. Brando replied that he would be nervous if he wasn’t nervous. 

Nerves happen because we care; because we're passionate, and because we want success. Confident public speaking isn’t the mystic art of making nerves go away, it's about grounding yourself in the present, recognising any nerves or tension and using them to your advantage. 

Nerves aren’t to be ignored, they are a cocktail of adrenalin and anticipation which, through development sessions with your Forefront Coach, can be harnessed into the positive energy that will make your pitch engaging and vibrant. A big part of the work of Forefront Coaching is preparing you to take those nerves and use them in a way that aligns your intention with your impact.

When we think about public speaking, delivering a pitch to a client, or raising a difficult topic with a line manager, our energy is often focused on all the wrong things; increased heart rate; dry mouth; sweat on our brow. 

Communication coaching can equip you with tools and techniques to battle these common communication challenges but our mission goes further than that. With decades of stage and screen experience, our team is trained to develop the all-important external factors of public speaking but, ultimately, our goal is to reframe your internal communication instincts. 

Our holistic approach will arm you with everything you need to speak freely and with confidence but not exclusively by working on the surface aspects of your message. At Forefront Coaching we will work with you to better connect with your audience in such a way that nerves needn’t be a factor. 

Developing your message and furnishing you with robust communications skills, you will develop a confidence in your communications that will allow you to ignore the ephemera of public speaking and focus on your all important audience. Working with a communications coach can heighten your ability to share your vision and ensure your core message is the centre of everyone’s focus. 

COMMUNICATE WITH CONFIDENCE

We work with people across a range of industries - brilliant, inventive creatives in the world of fintech, healthcare, education and more. We have worked with accelerator programs helping dozens of young start-ups looking for investment. We have worked with established brands hunting for new vibrancy in their story. Each business is unique and every individual has different communications challenges.

Our aim, in each case, is to offer you the type of communications coaching that will give you the opportunity to remain focused on what you’re best at - You are the expert in your business. Forefront Coaching is here to guide you away from fears of public speaking to a place of joy and eagerness to share your story.

The most common communication challenge cited by people from all industries is confidence. Confidence in sharing your vision runs parallel with building confidence in your vision. Identifying the narrative core of your message forms the foundation. Our communication coaches will build on this foundation to give you a structure you can rely on to succinctly share your unforgettable vision. 

Our sessions aren’t designed to filter your message through our lens, but to help you find and deliver the most effective framing for your idea. No session is one size fits all and our team will listen to you, understand your goals and frame our feedback to ensure satisfying development. Building your confidence is a process that may seem daunting but our coaches are trained to meet you at your level and guide you towards your goals. 

FAILING WITH CONFIDENCE

So much of communication coaching is built out of developing a safe space where you can comfortably mess up. Our sessions are the place to trip over your words and find your feet. 

Forefront Coaching founder, Mike, has a foundation in theatre. In other words, Mike has failed a thousand times. It is an often essential part of the process. Great performance is grounded in the opportunity to fail confidently on the path to success. 

Your coaching sessions are your rehearsal room where you needn’t worry about tripping on a word or bumping into a table. If anything, getting it wrong is invaluable when gaining that reassurance that communication is rarely about flawless execution. As audiences, we connect with authenticity. We prefer a confident and honest grasp of the material over an error-free robot. Your message is the all-important key, and we will equip you with all the tools you need to share your vision with clarity.