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title: About the Big Blue Box
description: "The Big Blue Box
Explanatory blog post about why and what we do.
About the Big Blue Box Ltd and our executive coaching and mentoring."
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# About the Big Blue Box

![Chris Dyson](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/3b73c18fbf3403120e47268de464ec17) [ Chris Dyson ](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/author/chris-dyson)  2023/11/08

- [The Big Blue Box](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/tag/the-big-blue-box)

Hello and welcome to The Big Blue Box.

This is to share the essential information about why we do what we do.

 

### Our Purpose

The Big Blue Box ‘mission’ is:

**To Unlock Potential**

 

Our ethos is:

**'To leave it better'**

 

Our aim is:

**To make working life more enjoyable, productive, fulfilling and consequently happier for our clients, our coachees and their employers**

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### How we achieve this

We achieve this through coaching and mentoring, in a style that facilitates, supports, and even challenges people to bring about positive, life-changing results, in (and outside) the workplace.

We have been coaching and mentoring key people in organisations for more than 20 years.

Almost without exception the first thing our clients remark upon is:

**We listen**.

The immediate benefit of being given a *‘jolly good listening to’* is fundamental to our way of working. This can be a powerfully **cathartic** process, effectively **enhancing self-awareness**. It provides the basis for our ongoing support.

Our coaching is a **confidential** **conversation** between a coachee and the coach. The coachee sets the initial agenda, is given time to talk and is listened to, without judgement. The coach brings a real curiosity, listening and reflecting back the answers to questions, and sometimes challenging, seeking to really understand.

This process of being ‘thoroughly listened to’ can create insights which help to raise self-awareness. Building self-awareness may help redefine the agenda, remove the barriers and be the catalyst to change. This helps the coachee to unlock their potential.

Mentoring is a process of sharing and transferring knowledge and experience. A mentor will usually have knowledge and experience in a specific area of expertise, and the mentee will seek the guidance of the mentor in those areas.

 

 

See our other posts about who are clients are and some examples of the kind of work we do with them.

[Download this information and more about us](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/hubfs/BBB%20Coaching%20Info%20docs/About%20the%20Big%20Blue%20Box.pdf)

## Read On

##### [Listening: Using Emotional Intelligence](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/coaching/listening-using-emotional-intelligence)

This short series of posts examines listening skills through the framework of emotional...

##### [Listening: A Working Definition](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/coaching/listening-a-working-definition)

##### [A working definition of our Executive Coaching](https://thebigbluebox.co.uk/leave-it-better/coaching/a-working-definition-of-our-executive-coaching)

There are innumerable definitions of coaching, perhaps every practitioner develops their own....

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