introduction to coaching

At Career & Coaching we help managers become leaders, good leaders become even better and strong teams become more effective.

Coaching is rapidly becoming a key tool for maximising the development and performance of key talent. Many businesses are now realising its potential for making a significant contribution to organisational success by helping key personnel develop more quickly and achieve a step change in performance. Managers and leaders face constant and rapid change and uncertainty, expectations for performance are ever increasing and people need to learn and adapt in real time. Coaching provides time and space to take stock, improve skills and develop new ones whilst continuing to meet the day-to-day challenges.

Coaching is the quickest and most effective way of getting sustained behaviour change, step-change performance improvement and long lasting results.

Growing leadership from within can be highly cost effective, and yet promotion to more senior positions can be highly pressurised, demanding of the individual skills and abilities not previously developed in former roles. Coaching provides the opportunity to face these issues in “safe space” outside the competitive environment of boss, peers and subordinates. External appointments face the same problems with the added complication of coming to terms with new colleagues and a new culture, Coaching can help ensure full effectiveness in the shortest possible time.

Coaching has a single objective – to improve performance.

Whilst Coaching can help your leaders, high flyers and key teams manage personal change, improve skills and boost effectiveness, you can use it to accelerate business performance – whilst at the same time developing talent to its maximum potential.

Effective Coaching is not done to an off-the-shelf agenda. Every coaching relationship should be unique and at Career & Coaching we ensure that this is the case. The client and our coach will be matched according to needs, experience and personal chemistry in order to ensure success. The elements of any of our programmes will depend on company and individual needs, whether the challenges lie in performance issues or relationship/culture issues and whether we are working with individuals or teams. Our coaches are both experienced and open-minded, they will respond to what they see and hear, not with ready made solutions. With the experience of operating at senior level, they will and challenge and support throughout the programme.

Coaching is dynamic. Bright people learn quickly. You define the desired outcomes, we agree the agenda with you, then we coach for delivery of lasting results.

Potential Benefits of Coaching

Recent comment indicates that in many circumstances skills coaching is becoming a preferred vehicle for personal development. This is because it allows the individual to build on what they know in terms of the theoretical or practical application of skills, and enhance their results by focused and personalised intervention.

Some Benefits for the Individual

A Coaching programme seeks to create an environment whereby, within the context of the world of work, a manager:

• Reflects on the skills he/she uses for success currently, and makes an informed choice about the areas of development
• Works collaboratively with a coach to ensure that the outcomes of each development session are action-oriented with demonstrable and valuable results
• Takes the time to evaluate each new learning and integrate it into his/her everyday management performance eg. practice good behavior
• Is able to formulate a future plan of development following the conclusion of the programme
• Helps deal with current “issues” and improvement of current performance

Some Benefits for the Organisation

A Coaching programme seeks to enable organisations to maximise their return on development investment by:-

• Providing a tailored programme of development for managers which is aligned with the objectives of the organization
• Affording managers the opportunity to enhance skills that will contribute positively to their personal effectiveness and performance
  Resolving some current “hot” issues, improving performance and overall effectiveness
  Enhancing overall organisational performance through improved individual performance and ability to grow within the organization
• Successfully manage “change” and its introduction into the organization