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"Coaching
is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance;
helping them to learn rather than teaching them. Clients say coaching
brings out their best by helping them to focus, break down tasks
and clarify their values."
-Fortune
Magazine
"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make
the most of an organization's valuable resources."
-Harvard
Business Review
"Coaching is an ongoing partnership designed to help clients
produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives.
Coaches help people improve their performance and enhance the quality
of their lives.
Coaches are
trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to
individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies
from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and
resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the
skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has."
-The
International Coach Federation
"Coaching is having a dedicated mentor; it's getting knowledgeable
support and encouragement and a new way of looking at things when
you need it."
-Executive
Female Magazine
Focuses and accelerates action path
Increases motivation
Improves management/leadership
skills
Enhances adaptability
Addresses key areas
of opportunity for development
Promotes
creative thinking
Empowers
individuals to achieve goals
"The
Manchester Survey of 140 companies shows that nine in 10 executives
believes coaching to be worth their time and dollars. The average
return was more than $5 for each $1 spent."
-The
Denver Post
"Recent
studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be most
effective for achieving sustainable growth, change and development
in the individual, group and organization."
-HR
Monthly
The process is
unique to each client but typically includes the following steps:
- Specific
issues and objectives are identified during initial meeting.
- Diagnostic
tools may be utilized to gain objective insight:
360 Degree Feedback
Myers Briggs
Personality Type Indicator
- An action
plan is jointly developed.
- Coach supports
client weekly, in person or on the phone, to:
Clarify issues
Identify desired
outcomes
Overcome obstacles
Create viable
options for meeting objectives
Determine weekly,
actionable steps toward achieving goals
- Results are
analyzed and processed on an ongoing basis.
- Reassessment
takes place after initial three-month period.
- Successful
people, at all levels, who want to enhance their performance
- Leaders who
want to define/evolve their leadership style and increase their
impact
- Senior executives
looking for a confidential and objective resource for strategically
exploring critical tasks and management development
- Professionals
charting new territory: company mergers, newly promoted, new job
function, new to the company
- High-potential
employees with performance issues
- Sales managers
who want to become permanent coaches for their teams
- Anyone looking
to create change successfully and efficiently
In today's fast-paced
work environment, managers often lack the specialized expertise
and time necessary to provide the type of support that can make
a critical difference in an employee's development and performance.
An outside
coach can guarantee focused attention, a truly objective sounding
board, expert coaching and guidance, constructive feedback and complete
confidentiality in a non-threatening environment.
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