Communication coaching & team workshops
From finding your footing to taking on greater responsibility, develop how you express your ideas, carry yourself and respond to others. Personal coaching and tailored team workshops for the conversations that matter.
MBA, IIM AhmedabadFounder of LEAD
Where people begin
You have something to contribute. You want to introduce yourself naturally, explain your thinking and feel more at ease around people whose opinion matters to you. We can work on the practical skills and the patterns that influence how you show up.
You already have experience. Now you are aiming for greater responsibility, working with new stakeholders or communicating across different countries and teams. The question is not how to become someone else. It is how to bring more range to the person you already are.
Beneath the words
You may know what you want to say, yet hesitate around a senior colleague. Or you may speak confidently and still need to understand a new audience. We look at the conversation itself, the assumptions shaping your response, and what the other person needs from you.
Illustrative conversations
The intention, in every room
“Test the change with one team before a wider rollout.”
The note on the table stays the same. The relationship across it changes, and so does what the conversation asks of you.
I recommend testing this with one team first. It will help us see what needs changing before we scale.
Before we agree a rollout, what would we need to test for this to work in your team?
Let’s test this with one team first. What might make that harder than it looks?
Adapt the approach. Keep your integrity.
Invented teaching examples, not client quotations or a universal script. How a real conversation turns out is never guaranteed.
For companies and teams
A team can include excellent individual communicators and still find it difficult to challenge an idea, surface a misunderstanding or reach a clear agreement. Workshops focus on the situations your people need to handle together, with examples drawn from their work.
Tell me who the team is and which conversations need to work better.
Practise explaining the point, the reasoning and the decision needed, without losing people in unnecessary detail.
Explore how to challenge an idea, ask a difficult question and make space for a useful answer.
Notice assumptions, clarify meaning and adapt to the people involved, without relying on stereotypes about nationality or personality.
We agree the situations and intended outcomes before choosing a format. A workshop can combine brief explanation, realistic scenarios, practice, feedback and another attempt. A focused session, a workshop series or a combination with individual coaching can then be discussed around the need.
A clearer way to handle a relevant conversation, a specific point to practise and shared habits the team can test in its meetings. We can agree observable goals, such as clearer recommendations, better clarification of disagreement or more explicit next steps.
Team workshops focus on work situations and shared practice. They do not require participants to disclose private personal history.
Start with the situations your team actually handles.
Discuss a team workshopTell me who the team is and which conversations need to work better.
Not the person who arranges training?
Pass it on with a short note. It copies to your clipboard, ready for email, Teams or Slack.
I came across Abhisek Kishor’s communication workshops for teams. They’re built around the situations a team actually handles, like recommendations, disagreement and working across teams, with practice built in. Could this be useful for us? https://abhisekkishor.com/coaching/communication/#team-workshops
For you, or a colleague you support
We start with something real: a meeting with senior colleagues, a new role, an important presentation or an interaction that did not go as you hoped.
Sometimes the useful work is practical: organising your thoughts, explaining an idea or rehearsing a different response. Sometimes we also explore how you see yourself, what you assume about the other person and why a familiar reaction keeps appearing. The depth follows what is relevant to your goal, not a predetermined story about what is wrong.
Self-funded or company-sponsored. With a sponsor, we agree the goals and what, if anything, is shared before we begin.
We choose the work around the need.
Examples from individual coaching
One professional wanted to feel more at ease communicating with people senior to him. Our conversations moved beyond presentation technique to explore how he saw himself in those interactions and how that affected his confidence. The work connected self-understanding with the situation he wanted to handle better.
An experienced leader was meeting colleagues and stakeholders from different countries in an expanded role. We worked on understanding the people she was meeting, the expectations they brought, and how she could adapt her communication without trying to become a different person.
“He taught me that self-confidence is the most powerful asset in communication, and that it comes from preparation.”
The two accounts are anonymised descriptions of real work, written by Abhisek. They are not client quotations.
Situations we can work on
For work centred on wider leadership decisions and responsibilities, explore Executive Coaching
Questions
No. You may want to feel more comfortable expressing yourself, or already be a capable communicator preparing for a different level of responsibility. The work starts with what you want to develop.
Public speaking and presentation preparation can be part of it. The wider focus includes everyday interaction, self-presentation, listening, senior conversations and adapting to different people and situations.
Yes. Individual coaching can be company-sponsored, and team workshops can be commissioned directly. At the outset, we agree the goals and clarify what, if anything, will be shared with the sponsor.
Individual coaching can explore personal patterns when that is relevant and you are comfortable doing so. There is no expectation of sharing your private history. Team workshops stay centred on work situations and practical learning.
This offer focuses on spoken and interpersonal communication. Written material can be considered when relevant to a situation, but it is not the main service. For language learning and Business English, LEAD offers a separate route.
Bring a conversation, a role you are growing into, or a situation your team needs to manage better. We can start there.
Start with a free 30-minute introductory conversation.