Billy Byrne
BE MSc(Mgmt), MA, Chartered FCIPD
I'm a freelance HR Consultant and Executive Coach. I have over twenty-five years of line management experience, including ten years in Senior HR roles. I have coached and mentored individuals and teams at all levels right up to Executive Director level. Because I worked my way up from the shop floor to the senior management ranks, I bring a unique mix of experience, understanding, theory and innovation. I'm always looking for fresh opportunities to work with new people.
What I commit to do:
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Treat every client with respect
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Honour individuality
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Encourage and support action
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Anticipate and work through resistance
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Engage with energy and attention
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Create authentic relationships
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Appreciate and value difference
Leadership as Philosophy
One is a leader in the moment of choice; it is an on-going emergence of oneself that is only present in its passing, becoming part of your legacy through the choices you make. Existential leadership coaching is about helping you to make a philosophical shift so that your choices will be made deliberately and with purpose. It provides a place where you can say the unsayable, to think the unthinkable, to challenge the unquestioned, to be present with one's anxieties and to acknowledge one's mortality. It will help you to live and lead with purpose and courage, to make authentic choices and to accept responsibility for those choices.
Becoming a leader is not a destination - it is a journey. Leadership is not a set of competencies as these describe what you can do but not who you are. To use an analogy, knowing how to drive a car does not make one a good driver.
On Organisations
Working in an organisation has its challenges. We're led to believe that it's the most natural thing in the world. Well, it's not. In fact it's the opposite. It's both unnatural and paradoxical. We are part of, and yet separate from, the organisation. We are valued, yet replaceable. We search for meaning in our jobs, yet organisations in themselves are meaningless. Like Sisyphus we begin each day by rolling our boulder up the hill, only to begin again at the bottom the next day. It is our choice whether to ascribe meaning to our work or not. The existential coach cannot resolve these paradoxes but, instead, can help the client to live, and work, with these tensions.