Pam Spreckley: pen portrait

Pam’s natural empathy with people and her keen interest in supporting their development has ensured her long-term commitment to coaching and mentoring. Since beginning her professional career in the early 80’s she has supported others in formal and informal settings. Educated to Masters level, Pam is a qualified coach, a Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and licensed & accredited to use a range of diagnostic and psychometric instruments, namely LQF, Myers Briggs, Margerison McCann (TMSDI) and 16PF.

Experience
Pam has a wealth of experience at a senior level, in operational & strategic management and leadership training & development, across the public and private sectors and has coached and mentored a wide range of senior leaders and executives, especially during times of personal and organisational change and transition. Her deep knowledge and understanding of stress management and cultural change has been of particular importance in supporting individuals and teams in handling: uncertainty and chaos; workplace conflict; and difficult colleagues.
Pam has written and delivered coaching and mentoring ‘train the trainer’ programmes and provided ongoing 1:1 support for numerous participants. One example is a programme being extensively used throughout the NHS in the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Humber regions. She has also written and delivered a range of personal and management development programmes including:

• Giving and receiving feedback
• Handling conflict
• Stress Management and awareness for managers and for staff
• Assertiveness
• Change management
• Handling staff absenteeism
• Recruitment and selection

Approach
Pam has been described as motivating, refreshing, intuitive, empathetic, challenging and flexible, demonstrating high levels of integrity, trust and confidentiality. Her philosophy of coaching and training others is centred around the individual and in helping to increase awareness of self and environment, ensuring the individual retains responsibility for their behaviour, performance and development. This approach is underpinned with a strong belief in the potential of each individual.

Her vast portfolio of tools and techniques enables Pam to provide individually tailored solutions which are best suited to the divergent needs and aspirations of each client or group.