Roger Federer has a coach. So why should you as a manager or executive have to go it alone?
Coaching increases performance at any level of the organisation.
Managers can be effective coaches for their employees, especially if they make time and have the motivation, focus and skills. (For more information about our Coaching for Managers course, click here). However, having an independent and expert coach offers a unique perspective.
Our Executive Coaches offer confidentiality and objectivity and provide unbiased support and motivation. Because of their training and specialist skills, they are ideally placed to lift your thinking and help you see a wider perspective.
Achieving your goals
What’s in a name? There are different types of coaching with different names; Executive Coaching, Performance Coaching, Business Coaching, Skills Coaching, Open Executive Coaching. It doesn’t matter what you want to call it: we have coaching experts that can do it all, and we summarise it with the name Executive Coaching.
What all coaching processes have in common is that they help you or your team achieve goals and objectives through powerful techniques of questioning and challenging and the use of tools and feedback: all confidential and free of judgement. Some examples where coaching often is highly effective:
• Building your leadership skills
• Creating a personal or business vision
• Getting and keeping you in big picture thinking
• Overcoming leadership issues
• Improving your communication strategies
• Overcoming interpersonal relationship challenges
• Developing KPIs
• Increasing your personal productivity
• Improving your delegation skills
• Building positive team dynamics
• Cultivating stronger internal and external relationships
• Shaping skills required for your role
• Improving work-life balance
Modes of coaching
Face to face – ideal for individual coaching, vital for group coaching. You can choose a location to suit you. It could be an office or a café, or we can organise a venue for you.
Phone/Skype – this is not only convenient if you’re travelling, but also if you prefer your coaching from the comfort of your own home or office.
Coaching cycle
Sessions typically go for an hour with email and verbal follow up between sessions. For coaching to be effective you need a series of sessions. This builds momentum and gives the best chance for coaching to effectively help you reach your goals. During the first session you and the coach will agree on what the outcomes of a successful coaching cycle will look like. The coach will skilfully drive the process from there.
Our coaching packages typically consist of eight sessions of one hour each, two weeks apart. All sessions are confidential and a judgement free zone.
Our coaches are members of the ICF and strictly adhere to the ICF Code of Conduct.
Becoming more effective and happy by getting to know yourself – using iWAM
Do you know what really motivates you? You may be competent in your role, but if have a deep understanding of what makes you get out of bed in the morning, you can increase your overall effectiveness and happiness in that role.
Our coaches are accredited iWAM profilers (Inventory of Work Attitudes & Motivations). iWAM is a work profiling tool that looks at your key attitudes and motivators in your current role. It covers 48 drivers, and predicts which of these will motivate you, and which will not.
iWAM starts with a simple 40 question online assessment. The assessment can be discussed and analysed in a single debriefing session, but really becomes powerful when used as a basis for coaching or for HR purposes. Also when applied with a team, the assessment results allow for mutual understanding and cooperation, and can help propel a team to a higher level of performance.
Some ways we like to apply iWAM:
• Coaching
• HR processes
• Building a model of excellence
• Statistical or Engineered models
• Matching candidates to roles
• Building high performing teams
• Appraising performance
• Succession Planning
• Career transition
