Coaching is an effective way to assist managers to succeed at and
exceed their goals, improve leadership skills, enhance relationships with employees, colleagues and supervisors, and balance work and life goals. A recent survey by the Manchester Group measured the Return on Investment (ROI) of 100 managers and executives of Fortune 1000 companies who received customized Executive Coaching. The survey found the coaching to return an average of six times the cost of the coaching program. Among the specific benefits to companies that provide coaching to their managers and executives are improvements in:

• Organizational strength
• Bottom-line profitability
  
• Productivity & Quality
  
• Cost reductions
  
• Retaining executives who received coaching

Among the benefits to managers and executives who receive coaching
are improved:

• Working relationships with employees
  
• Job satisfaction
  
• Working relationships with peers
  
• Conflict resolution
  
• Organizational commitment
  
• Working relationships with clients
  
• Effectiveness as a leader

Your coach may be hired by you personally or by your employer. Different packages can be customized to best fit your needs. To find out more, click here to email us.

Corporate Coaching

An external Coach is a partner whose only focus is on the success of their client. They are free from external influences and organizational forces that often face a manager. Many managers may also be great "coaches," but an independent Coach can usually achieve greater results because of their neutral perspective and specialized training.

Executive Coaching

This service offers executives an objective outside partner to help them manage the unique challenges of leadership in a corporate setting and clarify and achieve the goals they have set for themselves and their company. I partner with your leaders to be the best leaders they can be while attaining a greater level of balance in their lives. A coach acts as a partner and a sounding board. A combination of 360 assessment and coaching helps the executive increase their self-awareness. From here action and development plans are created to enhance the executives strengths and manage their weaknesses. Weekly coaching sessions are used to implement this plan while dealing with real life situations as they occur. This is a great retention tool for key players. Try it out with one of your executives for six months and see what a difference coaching can make for them and the bottom line of your business.

Performance and Management Coaching

Middle and senior managers can work with a coach to increase productivity and master communications. In the process, they learn valuable coaching skills to use with their own staff. Performance coaching is designed to help competent, promising professional achieve their full potential, to help the company succeed and to balance success at work with their personal lives.

MindMaps: Audio Coaching for all employees

MindMaps is a customized coaching audiotape system that helps employees get better at what they do. Mindmaps have been called the most powerful and personally redemptive self-coaching resource available in corporate America. The Discovery process provides the specific and useful language for recognizing and understanding one’s core-motivated abilities and the most natural approach to managing life’s tasks and relationships. The program consists of an extensive interview with a Mindmaps coach and then a series of 13 monthly audiotapes that are customized based on the information garnered in the Discovery Process. This innovative system provides affordable coaching for a large number of employees at all levels without disrupting their work schedule.

Assessments

We offer a comprehensive 3.5-hour battery of tests assesses natural aptitudes and abilities and personality as well as 360-degree instruments to capture the perceptions of a manager by their peers, boss and employees. We utilize the Benchmark 360 assessment tool developed by the Center for Creative Leadership to assess leadership skills and enhance the development process. This is one of the most comprehensive tools available. It measures strengths and development needs, encourages and guides change and offers strategic insights for middle- to upper-level managers and executives.

These assessments are generally used in conjunction with coaching services on an as needed basis. The need for these instruments is usually determined on an individual basis after the introductory meeting with the client and their manager.

Group Coaching

Our programs can be custom tailored to on-going coaching services for a group or team. Let us know your needs and we will customize a program for your group.

Methodology

The coach will conduct upfront meetings with the coaching client and their manager to better understand the situation and formulate a plan of action. Assessments will be used where appropriate. After this time, the coaching schedule is determined. The coaching sessions are normally 2 hours of coaching per month by telephone. The exact schedule will be worked out with the individual coaching client. The coach is also available by email and short phone conversations in between sessions as needed. Other options include shadowing and joint coaching sessions with manager and team or supervisor and coaching client.

This ongoing relationship allows the coaching client to work through challenges and difficult situations as they come up rather than just have a written plan to follow. Results are far more effective than standardized training or business plans which do not assist in breaking old patterns and making changes in real time/real world scenarios.

Confidentiality

All information discussed between the coach and the client is held confidential and will not be discussed with her sponsor/boss or anyone else in the organization without permission.

Review sessions are an opportunity for the boss to inform the coach of what changes they see in the client and make suggestions if any for future development. They are not an opportunity for the coach to feed back information to the boss/sponsor. Communication between coaching client and her direct supervisor is always encouraged and/or can be facilitated in joint sessions.

To schedule a phone appointment to discuss your needs and to try on coaching, click here to email us.

Customized Training Programs/ Speaking Engagements

Companies are made up of people and our customized training programs focus on the development of human beings. We give your associates tools to take responsibility for their own performance from more effectively interacting and communicating with others, to setting and managing their priorities, working as a team, and leading and mentoring others to success. Many programs are based on core principles found in the "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", yet customized to address the current situation at your company or association. Training programs are often coupled with follow-up coaching.

To schedule a phone appointment to discuss your training needs, click here to email us.

Train Your Managers to be Internal Corporate Coaches

In this five-phase workshop, managers and executives will experience the benefit of coaching and learn how to be an effective internal coach. Includes 2 one-day workshops focusing on basic and advanced coaching skills plus 6 coaching sessions to give them the experience of being coaching and to ingrain learning from the workshops. Optional written examination to earn their RICC designation. (Registered Internal Corporate Coach).

To schedule a phone appointment to discuss your training needs, click here to email us.