Empowerment, Teams & The Importance of Coaching : An Interview withFJ Smith - Executive Coach and Founder Clearview with FJ

Welcome to the second episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast "The LiiP"  In this episode, I am very lucky to be joined by FJ Smith of Clearview with FJ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fjsmith1/ 

FJ has a long history with the Insurance market and was previously head of Recruitment for Lloyd's of London before retraining and making a career for herself as an Executive coach and latterly as an Empowerment coach (this was a new term to me too)  

FJ is someone I have known a very long time, she is funny, engaging and very direct which is a huge part of her appeal as a coach!  

In this episode, I wanted to tackle what an Executive coach is, what they do and who should have one?  We covered much more than that. 

We talked about:

• FJ's first-hand experience of getting a coach whilst at Lloyd's of London 
• What FJ felt she gained from having a coach that inspired her to retrain as a coach 
• How to find the right coach  
• The stigma attached to coaching 
• Why everyone should have a coach and how we should now view coaching as something just for senior executives 
• When is the right time to get a coach? (JFDI - you will learn about this acronym by watching) 
• The 5 Gremlins everyone has that coaches work on Graduate experience of insurance 
• Who is coaching for and who it isn't for 
• What makes a good recruitment process 
• The most common flaws in internal recruitment function 
• The importance of empowerment and much, much more.  

This was a great podcast and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm sure you will too.  

To find out more about FJ please contact her on Linkedin.  

If you want to find out more about me: Alex Bond you can check me out on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbondfinpro/

FinPro is a talent consultancy to the Insurance, Reinsurance and Insuretech markets on a global basis, for more information visit our website  https://www.wearefinpro.com/ Look out for more episodes coming soon.

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