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Iluminar Ltd is a business training and consultancy company based in Essex, United Kingdom, that specialises predominantly in the development of people and in management advice for companies and individuals.

 

 

Our AimOur ApproachOur Experience

changegrowengageWe aim to help companies engage successfully with their employees and provide them with the necessary business soft skills to support their growth ambitions, help meet improvement targets or underpin business transformation and change.

 

From assisting growing companies to achieve their ambitions through a strategic human resources development plan or simply helping key individuals towards their personal development goals, at Iluminar we have the tools and experience to bring new ideas and practical solutions to the table.

Our distinctive approach is based on getting to know and understand our clients well and in so doing, find the combination of some or all elements such as advice, training, coaching, mentoring and personal profiling that will bring about discernable changes and improvements for you and your business.

Irrespective of the size of your organisation, we are enthusiastic about providing creative approaches that will take into account the availability of your busy people and the size of your budget! We know the investment that companies need to make in any development programme, both in terms of cost and hours committed, which makes us determined to reciprocate with services that provide real value.
Iluminar is owned and run by Yessica Herrera Fuentes and Conrad De Souza. After a diverse business career across multiple countries and cultures, Yessica has spent much of the last 10 years providing people-focussed advice, training, coaching and profiling for small to medium sized businesses. Prior to joining Yessica at Iluminar, Conrad enjoyed a successful career in the Support Services and Professional Services industries, working recently for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Management Consultancy and before that at Intertek plc. Please view our profiles for more details on our skills and experience.

We are passionate about using our combined skills to improve how managers and their people work together for the good of the company and of the individual. After years of working in and leading teams, we want to share the best of what we have seen and help evolve it for your business!

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Yessica Herrera Fuentes

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Yessica’s international business career spans almost 25 years. Her passion for helping others fulfil their potential has led her to spend the last 10 years predominantly as a trainer, coach and advisor to small and medium sized businesses.

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Conrad De Souza

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Conrad has over 20 years commercial experience in an international business environment, enjoying a successful and diverse career in the Support Services and Professional Services industries, previously working primarily for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) and Intertek plc.

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How Do We Work ?

Your journey with us

At iluminar we understand our business and we want to understand yours.



Although we are of course willing to respond to specific requests for pre-defined training and support, we believe firmly in a consultative and collaborate approach through which we will aim to understand your goals and challenges as a business and as a team of people. Once we have a sense of that and of how you currently work and manage your organisation, we can offer ideas to help you respond to the increasing and changing demands on your people and business.

In a NutshellPersonal ProfilingTailoredMaking Real Change
handshakeUltimately, Iluminar looks to build sustainable, trusted relationships with our clients. Whether we deliver a programme of training and coaching for you over a year, or conduct one-off courses or team building events from time to time, we aim to keep in contact with you and become an extension of your team. We positively welcome hearing from our previous and existing clients for casual chats about their achievements, challenges or for ad-hoc pieces of advice, which we are happy to freely provide. In doing so, we hope that when your next significant people development or advisory need arises, you will remember us as a trustworthy partner and call us first!
To help us work together effectively, we often suggest personal profiling using the Insights Discovery® model. This is of course not essential, but it can be a useful tool in helping individuals understand themselves and their colleagues, which is the first step to high-level teamwork. If you choose this approach, it can be threaded through our services providing a useful touchstone on which to reflect on how we get the best from others and ourselves.

Insights Personal Discovery
signpostWe don’t seek to simply superimpose standard material on your company, but rather provide options from which you can select and then help us tailor in order to maximise the benefits and impact on your organisation.

Depending on the availability of your management time, Iluminar can of course pick up a greater share of the design and administration of your training, but we will never proceed unless we feel your requirements have been accurately incorporated and our services have full management commitment.

starboxAlthough there is a place for one-off training courses and Iluminar can deliver these to order, our experience tells us that a longer term programmatic approach usually bring about more sustainable change and realisation of benefits. We know that the cost of people development within your business needs to be carefully controlled and weighed against its benefits. However, unless there is an urgent and critical need to address, we often suggest that company’s spread training, coaching and mentoring over a period of months. For example, committing your team to one day of training per month and weaving in periodic coaching or mentoring for key individuals to solidify and personalise learning, can significantly raise the likelihood of long-term change and development.


Additionally, such an approach has the benefits of spreading the cost over an agreed programme period and importantly prevents team members from being away from their jobs for multiple days at a time. Particularly in small to medium sized enterprises we understand that taking personnel out of the business for significant periods is impractical and costly in itself and we will work with you to minimize that consequence.

 

 

 

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Our combined experience means that Iluminar can offer useful and practical advice on a number of areas within your organisation. To give you some insight into how we may be able to help, here are a number of areas where we have specific expertise:

People DevelopmentPeople & ProcessPeople & RiskMeeting FacilitationFacilitating Team Building Events
People Development Our core mission centres on the helping businesses and individuals develop and grow by focusing on building skills and understanding the dynamics within a team. That being the case, when you engage Iluminar to support you with a training and development project, an element of that will include our advice with respect to plans and the design of your course or programme. However, should you be looking for consultancy solely for your own planning purposes and detached from specific training delivery, Iluminar can also support you as an independent, innovative, yet pragmatic advisor, who is able to help you look at your existing human resources strategy and making realistic plans for the future. Some examples of situations where Iluminar can help:  
Growth ambitions
Many companies, particularly small to medium sized enterprises, who have plans for growth – may have carefully targeted their new markets and plotted where sales will be generated. However, in moving your business from step A to B, have you carefully considered the impact on your people? Do they have the skills to support your growth plans? If not, where are the gaps and how do you fill them? Do you have enough people and do you now the areas in which you will have to recruit if your plan is successful? What impact will that have on your organisational structure and are your managers equipped with skills to lead a larger team?

Iluminar can bring support and insights to helping you prepare a robust people strategy that works in harmony with your business plans and forecast.

New Teams
Building a new team whether to manage a business or operationally run a section, can be challenging. Bringing individuals together to work effectively can take time and savvy leadership in terms of both selection and ongoing management. Iluminar can provide advice to team leaders and help generate ideas to facilitate the team building process, whether through working with individuals in the group or team sessions to assist members understand how to get the best out of each other and communicate effectively.

Change
Whether for good reasons or bad, change can be a powerful stressor on people and can adversely impact businesses if not handled carefully. Whether the change arises from new technology, new business, updated processes or upsizing or downsizing, transformations can be traumatic for individuals and teams and need careful planning to negotiate minimal impact on your business. Where changes are being introduced to bring about benefits, savings and improvements, the way in which your people cope and embrace the ‘new world’ will usual be pivotal to its success. Keeping them informed and involved is vital in order to bring them along with you on the journey and we can support you in designing ways to do just that.

Conflict and disharmony
Nothing can limit the potential of an organisation more than an unhappy team. Not everyone can be happy all the time, but deep-rooted, sustained discontent can consume huge quantities of management time in trying to keep operations running at a basic level. Counter to popular opinion, wages are not always the source of unhappiness in work forces and there may be some simple changes and commitments that organisations can make that will, with time and follow-through, bring about changes in how their employees think and feel about the company and their role within it. Iluminar can help you review your current practices and strategy and through consultation, take an independent view of the reasons behind any conflicts and how they might be addressed.
People & Process

As businesses grow and change there is a periodic need to review and evaluate the efficiency and adequacy of the processes people follow. Organisations can bend themselves terribly out of shape by forcing delivery through a model or process that is outdated or designed for another service altogether. As well as helping with the subsequent impact of changing processes on your people, we can initially, through consultation and workshop facilitation, help you create, document, review or re-map processes for your evolving business.

Some examples of situations where Iluminar can help:

Duplication & Confusion
As businesses grow and employees increase, simple processes that were once conducted by maybe a single person, now require multiple steps and individuals to handle bigger volumes. It is not unusual for this evolution to happen organically without any particular planning and as a consequence, it can result in overlapping activities or unnecessary multiple checks leading to inefficiencies and delays – that only become more pronounced as your workload increases. Stepping back and having a facilitator like us help you review and map your processes can reveal the pinch points and doubling up that may have gone unnoticed. We can then support you in re-mapping your processes to avoid these problems and in defining your people’s roles more clearly within the new process, to avoid confusion and helping your work flow more efficiently.
Considering new technology
There is constant temptation for businesses to try and improve the way they work with better, up to date technology. This may be hardware livee smart phones or tablets, off-the-shelf software packages for small business or bespoke workflow systems designed to meet your exact needs. There is no doubt that technology can be an enormous support to your organisation, but experience shows that there is a danger of putting the cart before the horse. Before investing in technology it can be wise to review your processes first. That way you can use your new IT to underpin your latest working model, rather than shore up a old inefficient process. Iluminar can help you facilitate the process review, then if you wish, we can work with your IT provider during the design and implementation phases to help you incorporate the process improvements as well as support your people in managing the change.
New services
Companies need to evolve and explore new products and services. It is natural to pilot new services in parallel to your existing ones and use your current systems and processes to deliver them, even if those are not entirely appropriate. These will likely work sufficiently until such point as a new idea takes off and you are suddenly delivering the new service to the same extent as (or more than) the old ones and suddenly your processes are at best inefficient or at worst can’t cope. We can help you prepare for the pivotal point where a new service thrives by facilitating your planning of revised or new processes to accommodate your new business whether in combination with older services or as a separate line altogether.
People & Risk

Risk Management is a broad topic that can span many specialist areas. Iluminar focuses on the day to day operational and business risks you may face and how you build awareness of this within your people and within your working processes and business culture. Recognizing the potential risks your business faces is a first step and we can help you in identifying these and actions you might to take to avoid, minimise, mitigate or at the very least respond to their occurrence.

Some examples of situations where Iluminar can help:

Responding to incidents
Business isn’t all plain sailing and from time to time issues will arise to rock the boat. These might come in the form of bad publicity, a customer complaint or claim, an accident, breakdown or an act of nature. When these situations arise out of the blue, it’s usually a matter of ‘all hands to the pumps’, but once the problem is under control, its good practice to reflect on how it happened and how it could have been prevented. This is not by any means to appoint blame or fuel a blame culture, but simply to learn lessons from the past. In this context, bringing a sensitive and impartial partner like Iluminar in to help you review what happened and come up with recommendations for preventing, mitigating or handling future similar situations can be most valuable.

Periodic Risk Review
It is a healthy practice for a business to take stock of the risks it faces periodically and consider whether it is doing enough to mitigate its potential exposure. In the case of smaller companies operating in a fairly unchanging environment, an annual review might be sufficient, but in a rapidly changing business with a tumultuous market, more frequent pauses for thought may be advisable. Iluminar can help you plan and facilitate appropriately scheduled risk review workshops, giving your key people the opportunity consider what adverse scenarios might effect the business and how to minimise the probability of it drastically effecting the company’s performance. We can support you in designing an updatable matrix to track the risks you have raised and where appropriate help you implement some of the mitigation measures you have identified.
Meeting Facilitation

Meetings form part of our daily business lives, but from time to time there are key gatherings for managers or wider teams that involve the delivery of important messages, business plans or incorporate workshops to develop new ideas and approaches. These more complex and lengthy meetings can benefit from careful preparation and facilitation, which is where Iluminar can help. We can work with you to design agendas and meeting plans that will seek to encourage open communication, break ice where necessary and introduce energisers and interactive sessions to get participants active and engaged. We can then facilitate the meeting if you wish, allowing all attendees to immerse themselves in the issues and discussion rather than anyone having to manage the course and timing of the day.

Facilitating Team Building Events

Bringing your team together periodically in a fun environment can have enormous benefits in enhancing relationships between individuals or between departments and in general, improving the bond and trust between your people. This is usually enhanced further, by giving the event some context within the business, even at a very high level (whether to celebrate success or prepare for a new challenge). Iluminar can help you design such events and facilitate the day’s activities whether as an outing or a series of games and activities held on site. We have experience in running days that are fun and appealing across different genders and cultures, whilst allowing the elements of team attributes and learning to be drawn out and identified in an enjoyable way during the course of the event. Our ideas are scalable and therefore can be adapted for different sized companies and budgets.

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We provide a wide range of training courses and are able to develop courses to order where appropriate.These can be delivered in a number of ways and as part of different frameworks depending on circumstances and requirements:

Management Training Programmes

– An agreed tailored selection of courses and workshops for a company, delivered over a period of time (possibly in conjunction with other services such as advice, profiling and coaching or mentoring)

Single Courses

– A one-off delivery of a course or workshop where there is a specific and immediate need to boost certain skills in a company or team.

Open Courses and Programmes

– Popular courses or programmes organised and advertised by Iluminar and open to individuals from small businesses or privately and paid for on an ‘per person’ basis.

Here are examples of some of our most popular training workshops and courses. We are happy to discuss how we can tailor and or develop learning packages for your specific needs and goals:

Connecting and Engaging Others

Purpose: Helping you learn the art of effective communication by raising your understanding of how to connect and engage with impact and clarity.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Improve the way in which you connect and engage with others.
  • Be more confident that your message is successfully received and be more competent at understanding others
  • Practice new approaches to connect and engage successfully with everyone.

Inspirational Leadership

Purpose: Enabling you to understand the impact of leadership styles on individuals and teams and recognise the difference between leadership and management. We will help you identify alternative leadership styles and when and how they are best applied

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Adapt your leadership style to suit people and situations.
  • Use a variety of leadership styles to energise the people around you into positive and successful action.
  • Implement your newly learned skills to inspire people and lead the way.

Managing Performance: Developing Self and others

Purpose: Giving you the opportunity to reflect upon how you develop yourself and others, this workshop helps refine skills through practicing critical self-analysis and skills. It will demonstrate the importance of creating support networks for you and your team.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Be able to identify the areas for development in your team members and the most appropriate route to providing them with the necessary skills
  • Feel capable of supporting others to fulfill their full potential through development activities
  • Spend more time with your team identifying areas of development and support and making sure things happen.

Being Influential

Purpose: Being able to influence contributes heavily to leadership, communication, sales and conflict resolution. You will be provided with tools, strategies and confidence to influence and inspire others in the workplace, whether it’s your team, your colleagues or your customers.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Strategically influence a given situation
  • Feel in control while creating an empowering environment
  • Demonstrate a range of influencing skills to achieve objectives effectively and avoid deadlock in difficult situations

Making Sound Decisions

Purpose: Developing your personal effectiveness in making sound decisions that will drive your team and your business forward.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Use more structured processes to facilitate the making of good decisions
  • Have greater insight into key aspects of a decision making process
  • Make informed decisions and communicate them with confidence

Making Feedback Compelling

Purpose: Providing you with techniques to deliver positive and developmental feedback that is fair, clear and actionable. We look at developing skills to help you praising, develop and coach others.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Provide feedback in a way that fits a specific person or situation
  • Be confident and comfortable giving and acknowledging developmental feedback
  • Deliver compelling and useful feedback to those around you

The Toolkit for Effective Meetings

Purpose: To equip you for running meetings with some practical tools and techniques that will make your sessions more creative, engaging and action orientated.

Duration: Half a day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Adapt and apply new tools and techniques in daily meeting scenarios
  • Have the tools, knowledge and skills to have a positive impact on the meetings in which you are involved.
  • Learn and share new tools and techniques with others in your team

Dealing with Challenging People and Situations

Purpose: Helping and providing you with techniques to deal with challenging people and situations. You will understand that a large part of handling challenges is to recognise others’ perceptions and to approach difficult situations positively and purposefully.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Determine the right approach for a given situation
  • Be positive and confident that you can handle the challenge
  • Take a proactive stance in tackling challenging people and situations successfully

Delegating Successfully

Purpose: This session will help you develop one of the most important skills a manager can possess – delegation. As well as exploring what to delegate and when, it will also provide immediately useful coaching and development techniques that are fundamental to delegating effectively

Duration: Half a day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Decide what to delegate and identify who might be the best person for the job
  • Explain confidently the work you wish to delegate and improve the likelihood of it being completed successfully
  • Delegate more and manage workloads more effectively

Planning for the Future

Purpose: Developing your skills to set simple, yet considered, plans and meaningful goals, for yourself and others, that will help turn your ideas into results.

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Understand that planning and agreeing goals doesn’t have to be complicated
  • Be confident in your ability to plan and agree goals
  • Make a plan for something that is both current and relevant to your work

Building a Winning Team

Purpose: Understanding the role you play in bringing together the various skills and attributes of your people in order to create and maintain a winning team

Duration: 1 day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Harness the strengths and attributes of your team whilst identifying and planning how to fill any gaps
  • Feel motivated and confident of achieving great things with your team
  • Use what you have learned to re-energise your team

Making the Most of Your Time

Purpose: Helping you exercise conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities thereby increasing your efficiency and productivity.

Duration: Half a day.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Consider carefully where you can make efficiencies with your time
  • Be more in control of your time
  • Better manage your time by applying newly learnt tools and techniques

The Manager as a Coach and Mentor

Purpose: Giving you a framework of knowledge and skills to allow you to develop successful coaching and/or mentoring relationships with individuals within the context of your business.

Duration: 4 days.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Successfully coach or mentor individuals and make a positive contribution to both the business and their working lives.
  • Be confident that you know what is required of you as a coach/mentor
  • Feel energised and motivated to commence a coaching/ mentoring relationship

Mastering Presentations

Purpose: Taking you on journey by which you will discover, through advice, tips, techniques and above all self-review, how to improve your presentation skills and understanding how and when to underpin your message with props and visual aids.

Duration: 2 days.

This session is of benefit to you if you wish to:

  • Carefully plan and deliver your presentations using techniques that will keep your message in your audiences’ minds.
  • Increase your confidence and improve control of your body language and voice during presentations
  • Practice and master the art of presentation using your newfound confidence and skills

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We all have different preferences and traits in infinitely variable measures and to dispel the myth, profiling doesn’t seek to group or box individuals into categories. It looks to create a means and language to understand the complexity of how we and others think or behave and how we might get the best from ourselves and those we work we work with.

An Overview of Insights DiscoveryHow it WorksExamples
Imagine the benefits to your organisation of a team that communicates effectively with customers and colleagues, and where each individual’s contribution is recognised and valued.


Understanding behavioural preferences can bring communication to a whole new level. Iluminar utilises Insights Discovery®, a preference-based system with its foundations in the work of Carl Gustav Jung. It is a profiling tool to help understand individual strengths, and how to combine and build upon them to optimise success and achievement.

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Insights Discovery® uses colour as a common language for understanding yourself and others; fostering effective interaction; and promoting organisational development.

Establishing your profile is a straightforward process that can be undertaken online and may not be as costly as think. Whether you choose to keep your profile confidential for your own personal development or decide to share it within your team to engender better understanding between you all, it is a powerful tool.

Contact us for an informal chat if you feel this may be of use to you and we will further explain what is involved and some of the benefits you can experience.

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Here are some situations where personal profiling with Iluminar can be helpful:

Building new teams
When teams are put together whether at a management or operational level, the pressure for them to gel and be high performing as quickly is possible is a common challenge. Naturally such chemistry can take time to build, but employing a profiling tool to help individuals understand themselves (and each other if they agree to share profiles) plus creating a common language for them to use when discussing team behaviours can accelerate the process.
People Development Programmes
Where undertaking a programme of learning and development within an organisation through workshops, courses, coaching and/or mentoring, the benefit of having a common language to discuss traits and behaviours that the whole group of participants understands and recognises cannot be underestimated. Additionally, your profile will help you understand which learning styles and forms of information and media will best support your development. If you have engaged Iluminar to support with the design and running of your programme, we can make sure that the common language of the Insights Discovery® tool is threaded through your learning to give participants a reassuring touchstone on which to understand behavior in different scenarios and contexts.
Resolving deep-rooted communication issues
It is our experience that on occasions, some long standing communication problems within teams can be resolved with a sense of revelation, given the help of personal profiling. Having the opportunity to step back and review how you communicate and how personality influences how others receive information and respond to you, can be a huge factor in team dynamics. Being able to think strategically about how a colleague best receives and processes information can sometimes result in the most minor of changes yielding spectacularly positive improvements in both relations and performance.

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Workplace Mediation is an informal yet structured process used to promptly resolve problems such as grievances, disputes and conflicts that occur in the work environment. A mediator does not take sides or determine who is right or who is wrong, but the process has a reputation for resolving 93% of submitted disputes within a single day!

What is Mediation?Why Mediation?Benefits
Mediation is when an independent and impartial third party discusses a problem with you and your employer (or between you and another employee) to try and find a solution. It’s often used after informal discussions have failed to come up with a solution and helps individuals hold honest discussions and express emotions in a safe environment with the goal of working through problems in order to reach a resolution. Iluminar is qualified to act as a mediator and involving us at an early stage can help your business resolve what can be complex or challenging disputes in an effective way that is acceptable to both parties and can reduce organisational costs associated with ongoing conflict. The ultimate goal of mediation is to arrive at a mutually acceptable win/win outcome for the parties involved. It is a voluntary and confidential form of dispute resolution during which the mediator can talk to both sides separately or together. Mediators do not make judgments or determine outcomes, but rather will carefully probe and ask questions that help uncover underlying issues. This in turn, helps the parties to understand each other’s position and reach options for resolving their difference or dispute. The priority is to restore and maintain the employment relationship if at all possible and focus on working together in the future rather than determining who was right or wrong in the past.

Mediation is ideal for addressing a range of issues including relationship breakdown, personality clashes, communication problems and bullying allegations, although care should be taken when mediation reveals actual discrimination or harassment claims which may need to be dealt with through formal investigative procedures.

It is often easy for parties to become entrenched in a dispute leading to unnecessary escalation, but involving a mediator at an early stage can be most effective in preventing a complete break down in working relationships. There is also a significant organisational cost to businesses from workplace conflicts both direct and indirect such as:

  • Time consuming formal procedures and tribunals
  • Sickness and absence costs as a result of unresolved conflict
  • Diversion of management time and resources
  • Higher staff turnover leading to recruitment and training costs
  • Lower moral, poor team-working and blame culture resulting in low productivity and performance
  • Potential damage to the business’s external reputation

For this reason many companies build a mediation stage into their corporate grievance procedures and if you have not done so, it’s worthy of consideration.

In a nutshell, the benefits of mediation can be quickly summarised as follows:

  • It’s quick to arrange
  • It’s less costly in comparison to the cost of an unresolved ongoing dispute.
  • It lends a positive approach and is more likely to achieve an acceptable outcome for those involved
  • It’s more constructive as it seeks to restore working relations rather than end them

The success rate from mediation is extraordinarily high with organisations like ACAS quoting resolution rates above 80%. A much-quoted statistic is that 93% of disputes submitted to mediation are resolved within one day!

Let us know if you would like to know more about how mediation could work for your company or indeed if you have a current dispute for which we might offer independent and impartial services.

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Definitions of Coaching and Mentoring tend to vary and a quick Internet search will demonstrate that specifics are often widely disputed. That said, there are some clear, distinct characteristics that can be attributed to the two and Iluminar is able to support with either.
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Coaching

At Iluminar we like to keep things simple and in so doing, the definition of Coaching employed by the International Coach Federation best fits our experience and understanding:

“partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential”.



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At its very heart, it is a series of non-advisory, non-judgmental, conversations between you and your coach that will help you journey from where you are to where you wish or need to be.

There are so many benefits to coaching, but some of the most significant are as follows:

  • An understanding and self-awareness of what motivates you
  • Finding clarity and purpose that will enable you to set realistic goals
  • Stepping back to gain new perspectives and learning from previous wins and losses
  • Feeling inspired to turn thought into action
  • Exploring new ways to achieve your targets and consciously changing what may be repeated behaviours and approaches to improve your chances of success.

Be prepared however, because although supportive, coaching at its best can be challenging and require your full commitment to reap the most benefit. It is a purposeful intervention that is solution-focused and incorporates powerful questioning, clarification and collaboration. We will agree clear objectives with you at the outset and ask you to commit to regular one-to-one meetings at intervals that suit you and your schedule.

If you feel that you, your executives, managers, or a member of your team may benefit from coaching, contact us for an informal chat. We are generally happy to arrange introductory meetings between coach and client for parties to explore the potential of the coaching relationship before committing to a series of sessions.

Be assured that Iluminar adheres to the principles of complete confidentially, non-judgment, openness, honesty and positivity in all its coaching relationships.

Mentoring

Although mentoring uses some of the same skills involved in coaching such as questioning, listening and clarification, it tends to be more focused on a profession or job role. The development path of the person being mentored is usually linked to gaining skills, experience and insight from a mentor who has greater expertise and knowledge in that area of the business or in that job role. Unlike coaching, the benefits of this type of intervention commonly incorporate the provision of advice.

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For this reason, mentorships more often take place within an organisation or business between two employees of the same the company. Traditionally they involve the pairing of a more experienced colleague with a new or junior member of the team.

Iluminar supports and encourages the use of mentors within companies and mentorship relationships between colleagues as an effective development tool. There are however, scenarios particularly at management and executive level where there can be absence of potential mentors.

Where this is the case, Iluminar may be able to help with the provision of a mentor. We have experience of operational and executive management that may be of use in relation particularly to people leadership, building new teams, business change, project and risk management.

Contact us if you would like to informally discuss the potential of an Iluminar mentoring relationship for you, your managers or executives. We of course assure confidentiality in all conversations we hold as part of a mentoring session.

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Iluminar Ltd helps people develop and shine with distinctive training and consultancy for companies, managers and individuals. It is owned and run by Yessica Herrera Fuentes and Conrad De Souza who are based in Essex UK.




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    • We offer a collaborative approach to designing distinctive training and advisory services for you.
    • We seek to closely understand your business, people, goals and challenges in order to build a sustainable, trusted relationship with you and provide services that address your needs and encourage the changes you seek.
    • Where appropriate, we favour a planned, programmatic approach to training and development, as this tends to yield more sustainable benefits than one-off, transactional learning.
    • We focus on helping you build effective teams with the support of tools such as personal profiling should you choose.
    • In designing and delivering our services, we understand the importance to you of cost versus benefit and the value of your people’s time.


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The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

  • The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
  • Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
  • Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.
  • This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.
  • All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.
  • Unauthorised use of this website may give to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
  • From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).
  • You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without Iluminar’s prior written consent.
  • Access to certain areas of this website are restricted. If we provide you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas, content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential. We may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion without notice or explanation.
  • With respect to any “user content” (including without limitation – text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute in any existing or future media.
  • Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights.
  • Iluminar does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
  • Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales.