EXECUTIVE COACHING
- Coaching shifts people from ideas, thoughts or desires to action. It is a relationship by choice with a highly-skilled professional who works with the person being coached as a personal partner. Some experts call coaching “the new technology for learning and change”
- Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer, has a coach. His coach helps him stretch and refine his thinking and actions to achieve higher levels of performance. Olympic athletes are best in the world. Their coaches help them eliminate impediments to performance so they can achieve their full potential.
The Business Case for Coaching
- Recent studies indicate that companies who use coaches see quantitative results in productivity, and bottom line results in individual performance, profit, client service, competitiveness, next-level people development and retention.
- Examples of leading global corporate organisations that use executive coaching are General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Gap, HP, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, Federal Reserve Bank, Disney, Xerox, and Microsoft.
- Coaching is now part of the standard leadership development training for executives in such companies as IBM, Motorola, JP Morgan Chase, Hewlett-Packard and many others.
- Between 25 and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches, according to the Hay Group, a major human-resources consultancy.
- Leadership development
- Top staff retention.
- Interpersonal relationships
- Management succession planning
- Work-life balance
- Team building skills
- Clarifying vision and purpose
- Retirement planning
- Typical client challenges that our coaching can address include:
- Clarifying work goals and developing concrete action strategy
- Maximizing strengths and abilities
- Eliminating impediments to success
- Recognising new competencies that leaders should be learning
- Preparing executives and business people for future challenges
- Developing team unity
- Sustaining momentum
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