Business Coaching

Do you often wonder what it takes to have employees who are fully engaged and like being a part of a successful team?

Who are enthusiastic contributors to the business?

Who choose to stay with you long term because they
want to work for your company?

In today's fast paced competitive environment, it is more important than ever to have the right people with the right skills and motivation.

You CAN have employees who are:

◊ highly motivated and focused on your business

◊ working as a team and communicating effectively

◊ offering excellent customer service to all your customers

We can help you develop your employee's skills quickly and effectively with our customized training and DiSC work assessments.

We partner with you to map out and implement a plan to assist you in managing your employees as you grow your business. Whether you are a large, mid-sized, or small company or municipality, we tailor solutions to meet your specific needs that include HR consulting, coaching, training and developing your employees to perform better. We also utilize DiSC assessment tools to enhance your staff's performance including areas such as organizational effectiveness, communications and team building.

Let us put you on the road to success with the customized training and development programs.

We offer workshops that improve your staff's job performance....

If you are looking to achieve the next level of success with your staff's job performance consider one or more of the workshops we offer.

• Resolving Conflict
• Coaching for Success
• Train a powerful sales force
• Improve customer service
• Harassment Prevention
• Handling Change
• Communicating Effectively
• Teams That Work
• Speaking Skills
  
• The Performance Appraisal
• Hire Right! Recruiting
• Management Skills
  

 

What is Coaching? Coaching is a confidential one-on-one relationship between a professional coach and a leader in a company or organization for the purpose of improved individual, team or organizational performance and effectiveness.

Coaching may be the right tool when you are looking to enhance your career and increase your on-the-job success through.  Individual coaching plans tailored to your specific needs will ensure that you excel. We offer a free, no obligation phone consultation to answer any questions you might have.

Some areas that we focus on We work with key executives to explore the impact they have on their teams and organizations based upon their leadership styles, decision making, goal setting and conflict management.

Strengthening managerial skills
Improving leadership skills
Building and maintaining a successful team
Planning and managing time effectively
Developing effective communication skills

a manager has the right technical skills but lacks the required leadership ability to lead his/her team or the organization.  a leader has to accelerate his or her assimilation into a new role, function, team or geographic location (new organizational or ethnic culture) a high potential individual looks like they are 'derailing'  a leader has received feedback through a leadership program or has gone through a feedback process that indicates a need for change . a leader has a career decision to make and needs guidance, insights and awareness in order to make the right decision




The Coaching Process


Step 1:

Clear identification and agreement on behavioral targets (improvements/enhancements) from the individual, his manager and sometimes a Human Resource professional is involved for organizational perspective. These early sessions explore transforming old behaviors that WERE successful into new behaviors that are critical for new roles or assignments. This time is also used to identify personal and organizational roadblocks.


Step 2:

Diagnosis of personal and organizational drivers and hurdles which are helping and/or hindering the individual. This provides an understanding of the levers for change from the individual’s perspective. The diagnostic and insight tools include: 360º Feedback on skills (this can be based on internal competencies or generic skills based on research), behavioral style, team style, values, interests, FIRO-B, Work Expectations, Job Profile Match, Time Mastery, Learning Style, Derailment Indicator, Diversity Index, Listening Assessment, etc.

Step 3:

Formulating a Coaching Plan which serves as a written guide to clearly define and agree on behavior changes and skill enhancements that are needed.

Also, the methods, steps and agreements on meetings are outlined and time-lined. This is done early in the process and is the compass which keeps the coaching process on track and produces visible measures toward the goal.


Step 4:

Formulating a Development Plan midway through the coaching process. This allows the leader to develop some additional understanding of how to be self sufficient in developing him/herself.  This step also shows how to produce a useful development plan that takes the leader past the coach being present, but continues to provide self reflection, solicitation of feedback and continued growth.

Length of Coaching



Short Term (3-6 months): This is used with individuals that can meet often and are looking to assimilate quickly and apply new skills from their assessment and/or leadership programs for visible results or have a critical career decision to make. It is also used for leaders who are committed to focus on their development to learn new skills and demonstrate new behaviors quickly. It requires focus on applying new skills between coaching sessions for this kind of accelerated learning to be incorporated.


Long Term (9-12 months): This is used for more senior leaders, high potential individuals, entrepreneurs and individuals who are faced with large scale project(s) requiring new skills to maximize their success. The longer term assignments are useful when the role and the skills are more complex or it takes a longer time to see results. The additional time provides the opportunity to gain feedback and integrate new skills into the working day with more support from the coach to ensure it is a lasting change.