coaching

What is coaching?

ICF definition of professional coaching:

Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

Definition of Executive Coaching adopted by the
1999 Summit on Executive Coaching sponsored by the ICF:

Executive coaching is a facilitative one-on-one, mutually designed relationship between a professional coach and a key contributor who has a powerful position in the organization. This relationship occurs in areas of business, government, not-for-profit, and educational organizations where there are multiple stakeholders and organizational support for the coach or coaching group. The coaching is contracted for the benefit of a client who is accountable for highly complex decisions with wide scope of impact on the organizational performance or development, but may also have a personal component as well. The results produced from this relationship are observable and measurable, commensurate with the requirements the organization has for the performance of the person being coached.

What We Offer

We offer personal, down-to-earth, supportive coaching that is conducted in a safe, agenda-free environment. Our approach is based on questioning, re-framing and clarifying, that builds trust, sharpens focus, and facilitates the exploration of new territories, challenges personal boundaries and examines blind spots. In an active, collaborative partnership, we have confidential, often intimate dialogue where the client is listened to, understood and not judged. Our discussions concentrate on the present and the future, are solution-focused, build from one's strengths and provide encouragement and acknowledgement balanced with well-timed challenges. Through this overall coach approach, the client achieves greater self-awareness, develops and implements concrete actions and ultimately improves learning and performance.

Specific areas include:

• leadership, business and career transition coaching
• shadow, one-on-one and team coaching
• assessments (stress, emotional intelligence, behavioral / personality types; for individuals, teams, organizations)

Benefits to Clients

• enables culture change and innovation through leadership action
• builds capacity to deal with rapidly changing environments
• builds skills to balance life and work more effectively, and manage stress and conflict
• develops emotional intelligence, such as interpersonal effectiveness resulting in better relationships with direct reports, supervisors, peers and clients
• improves leadership and team performance
• increases clarity and focus in planning, plans, goals, and future direction
• improves productivity, customer service and employee engagement, resulting in decreased costs and increased revenues

The Coaching Engagement

• contracts typically range from 3-12 months
• coaching is usually done in the initial stages through face-to-face meetings; this can transition to coaching via the telephone, depending on the circumstances
• the coaching frequency is typically 2 - 4 x per month
• sessions vary from 30 minutes to 2 hours, and average 45 - 60 minutes; longer sessions typically occur in the early stages and transition to shorter sessions later in the coaching process; session durations depend on the circumstances and the needs of the client
• includes requirements on confidentiality, conflict of interest, defined roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and reporting.

What is your Investment?

Estimates for a variety of coaching packages are available, depending on your needs.

Studies have shown that coaching consistently delivers return on investment (ROI) of 30 / 200% by building capacity to deal with rapidly changing environments, developing emotional intelligence and improving leadership performance.