Client reflections, feedback & testimonials
on completion of their coaching programmes with Halina Jaroszewska PCC
The ICF Credentialing Assessors wrote: Halina is masterful in creating awareness for her client which happens quickly and effortlessly. Brilliant at asking powerful questions that stop her client and take the coaching to a different plane. Actively listening to her client, she is entirely present.
Very courageous is this coach as easily, effortlessly and with confidence, she steps into deep conversation which goes right to her client’s concerns and opportunities. Her ability to process information quickly enables the creation of awareness for her client which enabled her client to see business opportunities from a very different perspective. The client was able to distinguish between trivial and significant issues. Halina has the ability to keep deep probing light and effortless.
What works really well with Halina is her trust in the coaching process which enables her to be completely present with her client. By giving her client insights business opportunities were re-ordered, strategies developed to execute what was needed.
Reflections & Feedback from The Application Review Committee, International Coaching Federation [ICF]
for Professional Certified Coach practical exam and taped coaching session.
Client Reflections, Feedback & Testimonials following coaching
with Halina Jaroszewska PCC
Halina ‘gets’ people and cleverly helps them to recognise their own behaviours and identify what’s holding them and their businesses back. Business Development & Growth Manager Business West
It was the small changes that I made which had the most impact by making me look at what I did with fresh and very different perspectives. I tried new ways and they worked! My personal PR improved dramatically. The power of silence was most informative.
Regional Chief of Emergencies Services
I found Halina encouraged me to do my own thinking, stimulating me to work things out for myself, not handing answers on a plate. That way I learned to help myself. Focusing my mind on what I really wanted [and needed] to do for myself to help me move forward, Halina’s coaching enabled me to address key issues for myself but also enabled me to see how I could do it [and did it] for myself. Much more empowering. I also found her to be a motivating, enthusiastic and very intuitive coach. Career Changer BT
My decision-making process has definitely improved. Halina has a great questioning technique that ensures that you come up with the solutions to problems yourself. A result that was sustainable.
Head of International Licensing, Publishing Company
Halina has excellent coaching skills that enabled me to get the most out of the opportunity afforded by the sessions with her. Things have worked very well as I have done them. Halina enabled there to be high degree of flexibility to accommodate my requests, which I appreciate. The programme has been extremely helpful and useful during very trying times. I’m confident that the coaching has helped me develop which has also been of benefit to the business as a whole.
Strategic & Business Development, Publishing Company
Coaching has given me a real insight into my core values and behaviour both in my eyes and those around me. The coaching then allowed me to find practical steps to modify my approach and behaviours to maximise my impact within both my professional and personal life. My team and colleagues certainly noticed the difference! I genuinely believe I now have a much better balance between my professional and personal lives and, as result, I am much more effective as a manager. Board Director, Publishing Company
Coaching with Halina has I think made me take time to review myself, not just the job I’m doing, which has allowed me to improve as a person as well as allowing my team to develop with me. This ultimately benefits the business through higher sales, greater productivityand it is all happening. It has affected positively all areas of my life. I can’t tell you the impact that the coaching process has had!
Senior Manager, International Business Development
In 4 months of coaching sessions with Halina, I have managed to move my career on significantly after a stagnant couple of years. This has been achieved by bringing me as a brand to the fore, concentrating on what it is I want from life and what I can offer my employers, both in the short and long term. I have used the coaching sessions to address the changes and developments required to achieve this. Four months on, with a new confidence and a new role in the company, I have made significant steps in the right direction. She used powerful and insightful questions enabling me to take action myself.
Manager, Sales & Marketing Publishing Company
It has had a direct impact on the business due to the positive aspect which was all about communication to both myself & others. There has been an immediate knock on effect. Halina’s coaching style is both challenging and supportive; she’s not afraid to make you ask the difficult questions about yourself. She adapted and worked in a style that suited me, really worked for me.
Publishing Director & Board Member National Media Company
It was having someone to talk to about anything … things that I couldn’t talk about to anyone in the company. The biggest gift is to be able to resolve difficulties, challenges, and vulnerabilities in one’s working environment that would normally be kept secret. For those to be safely exposed, discussed, and resolved was the gift. It was the freedom to do so in a confidential environment. There were the challenges, the looking at things from a different perspective. It puts you on a voyage of discovery with yourself all of which is facilitated and challenged by the coach. Publisher, Media Company
There were things in me that were drawn out by the coach through metaphors, challenges and questions. There were coping strategies explored. I would say something and through the coach’s questions I would discover what it meant. Halina would take me deeper and the issue would get smaller. I would talk myself out of it by looking at it from a different viewpoint and perspective. We usually spend time covering things up, management coaching gives us a chance to lay it bare, to get help, to kill the demons. It was discovering that I had choice that made the difference.
Senior Team Leader Publishing, Media Company
Coaching has helped me enormously to refocus on areas of my personal and business life that needed some attention and some positive actions taken. It’s made me question things and make tough decisions. Coaching is an essential treat not to be taken lightly. What was excellent was that Halina sensed early on that there needed to be some flexibility to help with workload of the senior managers. That understanding is really helpful and actually essential in my view.
Senior Marketing Manager, Media Organisation
Halina understands people and how they react to different situations. She has a fantastic memory! I think her best skills as a coach surround the ability to give you a different perspective on problem solving and people issues. She is a good listener. When I was stuck & needed other courses of action to consider, Halina would step out of coach role. We’d consider. Then shift back to coaching perspective. All very clear.
New Media Development Manager, Publishing Company
I am Chairman and Director of a number of companies in the healthcare field. My time is valuable, I do not use or spend it lightly. I wanted to write to express my gratitude for the remarkable coaching provided. The coaching Halina provided was of a different order of quality and use. As a businessman I value outcomes and she certainly afforded me the opportunity to achieve a clarity of thinking that enabled me to change my life for the better. I therefore recommend Halina without hesitation to any manager or senior executive seeking to resolve issues, move forward with greater vigour and personal freedom.
Chairman & CEO Worklife Partnerships Ltd
With prompting and encouragement – I raised my game beyond what I thought was possible & really surprised colleagues as well as myself. I now have created a national & international profile within my field and have the confidence to influence what happens. Senior Partner, UK Law Firm
Rarely is there an opportunity today to discuss a subject, receive a positive response and encouragement back and that is what Halina has constantly provided. Senior Partner, UK Law Firm
Coaching has helped me to clarify my thinking, focus and prioritise issues around my private and business lives – and most importantly to recognise the importance of making time to continue this in the future. I have decluttered and ditched baggage both physically and emotionally thus created the time and space to look for opportunities to best use my talents (about which I feel very positive) in the future. I am confidently ambitious. Senior Partner UK Law Firm
With great care, empathy and inspiration Halina provided the catalyst for growth and a surge in my personal confidence, whilst all the time putting me in charge of the process.
Translator, European Commission
At a turning point in my life I chose coaching and as a result I have become far more aware and a great deal calmer in taking everyday decisions at work. Also, I have learnt to be organised so that life admin does not take over my life. From feeling daunted and unsure, I have developed a greater sense of clarity and vision. It has and continues to help me so much that I strongly recommend a course of coaching with Halina to anyone facing a time of change or in need of support.
Policy Writer, European Parliament
As a Vice-President for business development in the company my role is demanding & challenging. Through the work I have done with my coach, Halina, I am learning techniques to ensure that I manage situations better & their outcomes impact more positively on my life. By choosing to focus on certain areas within my professional & personal life I am taking control of my life. A huge consequence of this is that I feel much better about myself and am constantly learning ‘life lessons’ about myself & the people in my life. To have a wise counsel whose encouragement & reflections have allowed me to learn so much & has given me the hunger to learn & know more has been an exceptional experience. Her lightness and laughter have enabled me to achieve acknowledgement of my potential to be the best I can for which I will be eternally grateful. Halina is an amazing person and an exceptional coach. I recommend her to you unreservedly.
Vice President, Business Development
You will recall I committed to ‘change what I want’ in respect of a difficult work colleague. There has been a result in that, following our weekly senior team meeting, another colleague (who did not know about my decision) said, “I liked your attitude in that meeting. It was firm and it worked.” I am surprised that my mental shift was so obvious to others. Halina’s approach obviously pays dividends.
Women in Management Steering Committee member
The coaching has helped me to focus my thinking around the things that were really important to my quality of life- and I really appreciated having a completely objective sounding board who also kept me committed to the actions I had discussed. Business Development Director, Financial Sector
Halina helped me to order my thoughts & focus on the things that are important in my life. Not to worry too much about other people and concentrate on myself. I still try to think of a positive thing at the end of the day, although sometimes I forget which is positive in itself.
Personal Assistant Investment Banking
The coaching sessions have given me a great deal to think about. Lists seem such a paltry thing to have started and finished on, and yet they encapsulate the key issues of where I focus my energy and how I decide what to do. You have listened carefully and picked out key themes and patterns accurately. You have probed and challenged me over these with some good questions and also at times with some good suggestions. You have helped me formulated thoughts and ideas to try out, such as valuing any improvement in my behaviour, rather than always criticising myself for not having changed more or faster. You have played a much more active and helpful role than just helping me to think aloud, yet in such a way that I have always felt any decisions I have made and actions I have taken as a result have been my own. You have helped me realise how it is sometimes appropriate for me to allow rather than to make things happen, that I don’t need to fear the effect of smiling at others and many things besides.
Learning & Development Manager, Accountancy Firm
I am a stronger person now when dealing with people at all levels. It is all that I wanted. I have my job and the company in perspective now. The biggest benefit has been knowing me better, being more aware of behaviour and how to change it. As you know at the beginning when it was suggested I have coaching I thought it wouldn’t help me in any way and thought it a bit strange. Right from the start of our relationship I thought you were a lovely, bubbly person. You made me think. You pushed me in a gentle way. You have given me confidence in myself. I now know that I can and not that I can’t. I speak out at meetings, where once I wouldn’t have. I gained insights into how to deal with colleagues, especially the difficult ones. I do so now with confidence and authority.
Senior Manager, Printing Company
Halina took me through a process and it was the actual experience of seeing and exploring my resistances so clearly to the point that they no longer had power over me that worked. Raising my bar then became possible because I was no longer paralysed with fear. I found my voice.
Health Professional
Having a completely impartial ear was fantastic and we shared things I wouldn’t / couldn’t have shared with any mentor from work. I did not expect to achieve so much in one hour – nor to cover the ground that we did! I have already acted on some of the suggestions we came up with and I am working on the rest. Manager Operations & Salesforce Communications, Banking Sector
Halina has been my coach for nearly 12 months. Rarely have I ever been lucky enough to spend my development time with someone who has an aura that is so energising and motivating. Halina “oozes” energy and positivity which has triggered a real “can do” attitude for me as her client. I found my thought processes changing and wondered how Halina managed to do that. It finally sank in! I realised that she was simply the catalyst. I was making those changes on my own through the challenges she offered. I now think and walk tall EVERY day. I’ve successfully trialled some of the ideas with my team, with plenty still left up my sleeve for a rainy day. Whilst it’s all a little nerve-racking, I’m cutting the strings. I’m going to “go it alone” for a while. However I know that I still have the opportunity to go back. For those of you looking to be challenged, motivated, energised and occasionally do things that are a little “off the wall”, then Halina is definitely the coach for you. Executive – Operations Banking Sector
The coaching that Halina has offered has really helped me to focus on areas of my working life that I have not had the chance to consider in depth before. The sessions have allowed me the opportunity to think around and question different aspects of my working behaviour that I would have felt too challenging to consider previously. Learning & Development Manager UK Law Firm
Extremely helpful and useful during very trying times. I’m confident that the coaching has helped me develop which has also been of benefit to the business as a whole.
Strategic & Business Development, Publishing Company
It was time to review myself and to improve as a person as well as allowing my team to develop with me. I can’t tell you the impact that the coaching process has had!
Senior Manager, International Business Development National Media Company
There were things in me that were drawn out by the coach through metaphors, challenges and questions. There were coping strategies explored. I would say something and through the coach’s questions I would discover what it meant. Halina would take me deeper and the issue would get smaller. I would talk myself out of it by looking at it from a different viewpoint. We usually spend time covering things up, management coaching gives us a chance to lay it bare, to get help, to kill the demons. It was discovering that I had choice that made the difference.
Senior Team Leader Publishing, National Media Company
The opportunity to discuss issues with someone out of the business and who is completely objective is invaluable. It gave the opportunity to test out your thinking and learn about yourself. Everything you discuss and work on can be applied to all aspects of your life.
Vice President, Container Management
It’s made me question things and make tough decisions. What was excellent was that Halina sensed early on that there needed to be some flexibility to help with workload of the senior managers. That understanding is really helpful and actually essential in my view.
Senior Marketing Manager Publishing Company
It was having someone to talk to about anything … things that I couldn’t talk about to anyone in the company. The biggest gift is to be able to resolve difficulties, challenges, and vulnerabilities in one’s working environment that would normally be kept secret. For those to be safely exposed, discussed, and resolved was the gift. It was the freedom to do so in a confidential environment. There were the challenges, the looking at things from a different perspective. It puts you on a voyage of discovery with yourself all of which is facilitated and challenged by the coach. Senior Partner UK Law Firm
Halina is a great listener and at the same time is prepared to step out of coaching mode in order to suggest causes of actions. She understands people, how they react to different situations. She has a fantastic memory! I think her best skills as a coach surround the ability to give you a different perspective on problem solving and people issues. Senior Partner UK Law Firm
Halina took me through a process. The actual experience of seeing and exploring my resistances so clearly to the point that they no longer had power over me that worked. Raising my bar became possible because I was no longer paralysed with fear. I found my voice. Health Professional
Having a completely impartial ear was fantastic and we shared things I wouldn’t / couldn’t have shared with any mentor from work. I did not expect to achieve so much in one hour nor to cover the ground that we did! I have already acted on some of the suggestions we came up with and I am working on the rest. Manager Operations & Salesforce Communications, Banking Sector
To talk about myself like that, with your insightful prompts nudging me along was so enlightening. I’ve never done anything like that before and wow, it’s really helped me see things more clearly. And I can see how the ideas that arose from our time have been converted into simple, practical steps to take, which make me feel I really can change the way I ‘sell’ myself. To have a whole hour of your precious time and expertise, devoted to me, was a huge privilege. Thank you. Head of PR at Pieminister
‘You’re a diamond. Thank you so much and to show how much I appreciate your wealth of expertise and for you helping me to identify and celebrate my own! I can’t thank you enough.
Forensic Scientist Team Leader
I so value your energy and commitment to the development of coaching. You always challenge my thinking and keep me working on creating awareness. Master Certified Coach
What I like about the way you coach is that you take the time to listen and then make the learnings relevant to the people in the room. Then when people disperse they do so with a deeper understanding of themselves and how they fit into the world around them.
Founder & Director Skylark Media Group
Thank you so much for yesterday – it wasn’t what I expected at all but on reflection just what I needed. As a result I have actioned 3 crucial elements in my personal life. And since speaking to you I also had some great feedback from two colleagues at work about jobs I had done and asking me to take on some additional tasks – I managed to negotiate a time frame to suit me and some support from them to do the leg works on the tasks. I never thought that one hour could change so much – having a completely impartial ear was fantastic and we shared things I wouldn’t / couldn’t have shared with any mentor from work. Head of Lloyds Banking Group Sales Professionals Team
Halina is an excellent coach and enabler. She listens well and her role is not to give you the answers but to provide a forum for the client to figure out the answer themselves. I highly recommend Halina to any business. She has changed my approach for the better.
Operations Manager / Senior Management Team Ovation Finance
Halina’s coaching style is both challenging & supportive. Had an immediate knock on effect. She’s not afraid to make you ask the difficult questions about yourself. Halina adapted; worked in a style that suited me, really worked for me. Publishing Director & Board Member Media Organisation
Having a completely impartial ear was fantastic and we shared things I wouldn’t / couldn’t have shared with any mentor from work. I did not expect to achieve so much in 1 hour – nor to cover the ground that we did! I have already acted on some of the suggestions we came up with and I am working on the rest. Manager Operations & Salesforce Communications, Banking Sector
The coaching that Halina has offered really helped me to focus on areas of my working life that I have not had the chance to consider in depth before. The sessions have allowed me the opportunity to think around and question different aspects of my working behaviour that I would have felt challenging previously.
Learning & Development Manager Law Firm