Business Coaching
How can Essencial Business Coaching help you and your staff?
Coaching is the art and practice of inspiring, energizing and facilitating the performance, learning and development of the player." Myles Downey, author of Effective Coaching
Coaching is an ideal addition to a skills based training course. Coaching also works well as a stand-alone intervention for middle and senior managers who have specific challenges and development needs.
Through focused one-to-one attention and an objective perspective, Business Coaching helps teams and individuals to:
During the process individual goals are set and reviewed during each coaching session. This ensures quick and tangible results. See real life examples below:
"I learnt to put things into perspective and say "no" whilst balancing the demands of work and home life." Accountant
"Coaching supported me in believing that I could and actually did increase booking and revenue by 5% within 3 months." Recruitment Consultant
"I increased placements by 33% by using techniques and personal development from coaching." Recruitment Consultant
"Coaching enabled me to reduce my working hours from 50-60 hours a week to an average of 40 hours a week and I no longer feel guilty about leaving at 5.30pm." Information Professional
"Coaching gave me strategies to deal with a senior colleague with whom I didn't think I had a very good relationship - strategies that I wouldn't have thought up on my own." Senior Manager, NHS
"I found all the help you have given me enormously helpful when doing presentations, delegating, separating personal and professional issues and in raising my profile within my organisation."
Consultant Advertising Planner
"It has been a great relief for my staff member to receive coaching - she is less stressed and doesn't take things as personally as she did. This has had a huge knock-on effect and I can leave her to get on with things and am not worrying about her drowning in work." Senior Information Professional
How does it work?
Assessment
An audit is taken to measure the client's current performance against set objectives. An analysis is then conducted of what is affecting the client's current ability to reach these desired objectives
Objective Setting
SMART goals are agreed between business coach, commissioner of coaching (Line or HR Manager) and client to fill the gap between current and desired performance. These goals are aligned with corporate objectives such as, sales targets, customer service levels or key performance indicators.
Examples could include: to reduce working hours by 20%, to reduce conflict in the team through improved communication, to increase job placements by 45% within 4 months.
Progress
A series of business coaching sessions are arranged and an outcome is set at the beginning of each, towards reaching the agreed goals.
At the end of each session the client commits to taking actions to reach their set goals. For example, addressing conflict by listening to each team member's view point.
Evaluation
A review of the client's progress is monitored mid-way through the coaching process with the commissioner of coaching, client and business coach. Any adjustments necessary are made to the goals set or to the coaching process.
After the final session a review is prepared by the coach against set objectives and discussed with the commissioner of coaching.
Try it out
Contact candy@essencial.co.uk to arrange a complimentary 30-minute coaching session for yourself or one of your team.
