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Executive Coaching
can produce improvements to your organization’s performance at several levels. Just as leading athletes individually,
or in teams, have gained enormously from feedback via their coaches and sports psychologists, Executive Coaching provides
executives and managers with access to the same performance enhancing techniques. Executive Coaching benefits both organizations
and the individuals receiving coaching. Benefits for the
Company - Efficient transfer of training
to work results. Coaching transfers training to the workplace most efficiently by using work challenges as the basis for individuals
to try out techniques they have learned. It is by its nature just in time.
- Close relevance of the training
to the need. Coaching's use of workplace challenges makes it absolutely relevant to the issues faced by individual clients.
- Greater opportunity to breaking down barriers to change. The duration of a coaching assignment allows new
behaviors and methods to become more embedded and accepted in the workplace than training courses of shorter duration. It
is of sufficient time to allow the reactions to change – denial, resistance, exploration and commitment - to run full
cycle.
- A personalized and adaptable way of developing different people. Coaching can enhance the performance
of senior executives, recently promoted managers, managers being prepared for promotion, technical managers that need to develop
people skills or managers that are not performing up to expectations.
Benefits for the Individual - Acknowledgement
of a person’s importance to the company. Selection for a coaching program is a visible signal of an individual’s
worth and an acknowledgement of their future potential and advancement.
- A personally tailored development
program. The flexibility of coaching allows the technique to be tailored to an individual’s learning style and their
most pressing need for development. The relevance described earlier is magnified for the individual by bringing new ideas
to bear on their workplace problems when they need them.
- Flexibility in delivery. Coaching can adjust
to suit the demands of a busy individual. While mentally intrusive, coaching need not intrude in time and place and through
follow-up by telephone a coach can be available whenever a client needs them.
- Help to solve real work
dilemmas. Instead of the distractions and unreality of many development courses, coaching deals with real business problems
and issues. Individuals develop their own solutions to their work problems through coaching, thus improving their own performance,
gaining satisfaction and increased respect from others.
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