What is Coaching?
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High Performance Coaching is a series of structured one on one
sessions aimed at enhancing performance, achieving goals and creating
sustained behavioural change.
Coaching is action driven and results oriented. It is designed
for healthy individuals who want advanced levels of personal performance
and to achieve their full potential.
Behaviour change for improved results is the core of our coaching
programs and therefore central to coaching is the belief that we
can change and develop. People with tremendous potential often fall
into the trap of mediocrity in both their personal and professional
lives. Coaching clears mental and emotional blocks to improve results.
It identifies the gap between where you are now and where you want
to be. It helps clarify needs, identifies core goals and gives you
the HOW to get there.
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"Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to
be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and
development in the individual, group and organization."
- HR Monthly"
Past clients comment on the power of
- receiving independent advice
- being able to work on skills that relate to their working week
- increased commitment to change through the support of a confidential
external person
- sustained motivation due to accountability to a coach
- a session which can be fitted into busy work schedules and conducted
in the office
- targeting specific individual needs
Why Executive (Manager) Coaching?
Organisations are turning to coaching for improved team and interpersonal
effectiveness, to advance individual performance and to develop excellence
and potential in key people.
After a recent intervention in a company my client said, "I hired
you to put out fires, but coaching has taught me your real role is to
get us working like a Swiss clock."
The Harvard Business Review reported that business coaching has emerged
as a critical activity to support individual and team development and
provides new directions for overall organizational effectiveness.
Research has shown that only about 15% of material is retained from training.
It is not that training does not work. People do need skill training but
it is only part of the answer. Change only occurs when there is proper
application and integration of new data, new methods, new concepts into
what we currently know and do. Unfortunately thousands of dollars are
spent on excellent training, that is never fully transferred into different
results. For this reason whenever possible we include coaching with our
training programs.
Most employees receive the same development feedback more than once. Simply
hearing what the problem is does not necessarily create the change.
Senior and middle management readily give feedback on what behaviours
an employee must change. However they rarely give......
- detail of what advanced performance looks like
(They assume the person knows, but ironically, if they did know, they
would probably be doing it!)
- feedback on HOW to actually change
(Probably because they have know idea how to change behaviour or that
they could actually help the process.)
- long term support to create change
(The behaviour may be perfected over 40 years yet we expect people to
drop it at a one day training course!)
Our coaching fills this critical gap.
The topics and development areas covered in executive / manager coaching
sessions range from developing specific communication and interpersonal
and aspects of self management through to achieving organizational goals.
The top 18 reasons we are asked to coach.
- Improve communication and interpersonal skills
- Create superior leadership
- Leadership development
- Improve presentation skills
- Create productive & cooperative teams
- Performance Review linked coaching
- Create behavioural change
- Culture or structure visioning
- Change management
- Giving feedback effectively
- Coaching skills for internal managers
- Developing HR & training strategies
- Time management
- Succession Planning
- Conflict resolution
- Influencing strategies
- Managing emotions and handling difficult people
- Career development
Structure and Coaching Frameworks
We can provide:
- A series of One on one coaching sessions or once only sessions to
address a specific issue .
- Combination group training and individual coaching sessions focused
on specific skill areas.
- Pilot programs with a group of 3-5 of your key employees.
- Free information sessions prior to coaching interventions to educate
teams about the process and to fully prepare teams.
- Post coaching Leadership reports about organizational observations
and assessments. (This is extremely valuable to organizations.)
- Evaluations after individual coaching programs to measure the value
and development change.
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