Coaching Solutions

How Coaching Brings Out the Best in Your Staff

Coaching is a highly interactive partnership that challenges and supports people in achieving higher levels of performance while bringing out the best in themselves and those around them.

Forward-thinking executivnes know that selecting and developing talent is the key to future business success. And, the skills people need to succeed in today's business environment are complex and multi-faceted.

Every organization - regardless of size or industry - has challenges. It's not enough to do good work, or to have the best technical skills, or to have received the highest level of training. An organization needs to put the proper focus, structures and accountabilities in place in order for strategic improvements to take place. Coaching is an ideal method for helping people transform new skills into enduring performace habits that are the foundation of true change.

Benefits of Coaching for the Individual Client ~

• Greater self-awareness & self mastery
  
• Increased effectiveness, confidence, & motivation
  
• Heightened productivity & job satisfaction
  
• Enhanced thinking & decision-making skills
  
• Expanded leadership & management skills

Benefits of Coaching for the Organization ~

• Accelerated progress toward strategic goals
  
• Improved communication & team effectiveness
  
• Enhanced development & retention of talented staff
  
• Increased productivity & profitability

A Process for Professional Development

Organizations frequently utilize coaching to develop and cement complex new skills that require deep learning and practice. Workplace Solutions helps you to assess the appropriateness of coaching for a given situation and to select a "best fit" coach from our national panel of highly experienced coaches.

Frequent Motivation for Coaching includes ~

• Individual is identified as a high-potential leader
  
• Desire to lead or manage more effectively and/or more efficiently
  
• Desire to accelerate results or meet a stretch goal/assignment
  
• Recent promotion requiring mastery of a new set of leadership skills
  
• Disparity in awareness, skill, confidence and/or knowledge levels
  
• Ineffective "style" issues
  
• Develop more effective work-life balance to enhance performance
  
• Succession planning
  
• Career development planning

The ideal coaching candidate is one who ~

• Views professional growth as a priority
  
• has organizational support
  
• Is open-minded and seeks to develop new insights and perspectives
  
• Has the courage to try new ways of doing things
  
• Will invest the time now and be accountable
  
• Will accept responsibility for him/herself without blame

Coaching is a process that includes the following steps ~

• Select a coach who is the "best fit" for the client
  
• Build the relationship
  
• Provide assessements and feedback
  
• Create a development plan with specific goals and measurements
  
• Meet in person or by telephone based on a planned schedule (weekly, monthly, bi-monthly)
  
• Evaluate progress and provide feedback to management as appropriate
  
• Complete engagement with a go-forward plan

Fees are based on ~

• Role and position of the client
  
• Complexity of the goals to be achieved
  
• Length of the engagement
  
• Assessment tools utilized
  
• Level of experience and certification of the coach

Workplace Solutions delivers individually tailored coaching services. To further explore how Workplace Solutions' Coaching Services can help bring out the best in your business, contact us at 1-800-327-5071.