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Is your organization facing any of these challenges?
- Changes in the organization or the marketplace requiring new responses and increased flexibility
- Need for a confidential outsider’s perspective to help leaders test perceptions, review their management practice
- New leadership responsibilities
- Opportunities for career development
- Difficulties in productivity or team management
- Inappropriate or abrasive relationships in the workplace
- Personal problems affecting workplace performance
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What is coaching and how can it boost your productivity?
Definition
One-on-one relationship between a mature external guide and a leader who is motivated to excel. Confidential. Highly effective.
Power
Coach provides a sounding board, guidance, and frank feedback. Assists CEOs, executives, managers in acceleration from the acceptable to exceptional.
Objectives
Increase achievement by developing more effective management practices, identifying perception gaps, honing people skills, optimizing core competencies.
Economies
Solution-focused, productivity-oriented support for the people you’ve invested the most in. Developing the skills of established high performers is less disruptive and expensive than recruiting, and builds priceless loyalty.
Connection
Face-to-face, telephone, or e-mail.
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Who benefits from coaching?
Senior leaders
Faced with technology shifts, shortened cycles, fierce global competition, and new markets, senior executives experience extreme pressure and isolation.
An unbiased outside coach can ask the right questions, and provide objective feedback, empowering them to perform at their peak.
Seasoned managers and rising stars
When planning for succession, you can refer promising managers for customized coaching to complement the standard workshops. This will enhance the transfer and retention of vital skills in the operating environment.
And if your organization is experiencing major changes, individual or group coaching assists you in getting key managers up to speed at the same time.
Managers experiencing difficulties
Your organization doesn’t want to lose valued contributors, even if they are having problems with productivity, flexibility, relationship issues, or people skills.
Coaching helps them develop new work patterns that will enhance morale and effectiveness, and reduce the risk of recurrences.
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As organizations flatten, as production cycles
hit hyperspeed, as change becomes a constant,
coaches can help you become a better, more nimble
business leader.”[Fast Company Magazine]
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How to refer for coaching
A practical guide
Referral Phase
1. Your organization, or a particular manager, becomes aware that the wisdom and objectivity of a personal coach could assist in the resolution of business needs. E-mail The Leader's Coach info@leaderscoach.com. Or call us at 416-532-0506 (or 1-888-790-6793) for immediate guidance, in confidence and without obligation.
2. We will send you our step-by-step guide to presenting the coaching opportunity to managers.
3. Following our guide, you can offer the coaching program to the manager, explaining that it is a mentor-like relationship which will include constructive feedback and suggestions for change. Tell the manager that your organization is backing him or her in using coaching.
4. In consultation with you and the manager, a professional coach will quickly develop a preliminary strategy to proceed.
Assessment Phase
Coach and manager meet to clarify challenges and strengths, identify values conflicts, and establish measurable objectives based on personal and organizational needs.
Development Phase
Coach and manager develop solutions which are practical, self-reinforcing, and fit your organization’s culture.
Themes might include:
Individualized Skill Training to Increase Effectiveness
Examples: strategic planning, decision-making, conflict management, communication.
Developing a More Production Management Style
Examples: managing change, developing a highly-functioning team, balancing work and personal life.
Resolution of Values Conflicts
Examples: clarifying values and attitudes, managing diversity, dual relationships in the workplace, building a values-based culture.
Completion Phase
- The coach and manager agree that the work is complete.
- A follow-up is scheduled.
- The Leader's Coach remains available to provide further consultation.
Next Page: Coaching for yourself
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