Coaching for Improved Performance
Imagine how successful your business could be if everyone performed to their full potential!
Many people face performance challenges that can only be met with one to one support. Unfortunately, this needs the commodity you are most short of – management time. Even if you had the time, it is unlikely that internal support would be the ideal solution; there are too many barriers and distractions.
Have you considered using external coaching support to those of your staff who:
- Have been identified as high flyers?
- Are not performing to their expected potential?
- Have been given new responsibilities or been asked to take on leadership roles?
Coaching is also appropriate for senior people because it is often difficult to discuss the issues that influence personal performance with your boss, peers or HR staff. Would having a supporter who is totally committed to helping you achieve your full potential be useful?
Many highly qualified, skilled and capable individuals fail to achieve their full potential. They are gifted and able to perform adequately, but often leave themselves and their managers feeling frustrated and short changed.
Conventional training and development often has little effect because these people are not short of skills or knowledge; they often lack only vision, direction and motivation to get them over the barriers that hold them back.
Coaching for performance is a structured one to one process that helps candidates clarify their goals, identify the beliefs that hold them back and provides effective strategies for step changes in performance. It can be provided as a standalone service or to complement development or change initiatives.
Senior managers rarely have the time to provide the one to one support that developing managers need. Even if they have the time, they may not have the necessary skills, organisational culture and formal relationship issues may cloud the issue. It is difficult to discuss ones shortcomings and fears openly and frankly with even the most supportive of “bosses”. This is where an external coach can help by providing a detached, realistic view and focusing solely on helping the candidate succeed.
What is coaching for performance?
“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance.
It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them”
John Whitmore
“An ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.”
International Coaching Federation
The coaching process allows participants to improve their performance by helping the individual to:
- Develop clear and compelling goals that are currently out of reach but not out of sight
- Examine personal strengths and weaknesses
- Create and enhance their self-esteem, self-confidence and beliefs so that these objectives can be met
- Highlight limiting beliefs and behaviours so that these can be attended to
- Produce challenging, achievable, practical improvement plans
- Increase their motivation to take action
- Reflect on their performance
- Hold themselves accountable for their performance
- Uncover, acquire or develop the skills and capabilities they need to succeed
- Maintain motivation in the face of challenges, disappointments and obstacles.
The Coach’s role is facilitative, motivational and supportive.
Testimonials
Look at what some recent clients have said:
“….. the meeting yesterday was brilliant and I really appreciate your help. I applied the ideas in a meeting I had afterwards and had a totally different outcome from usual.”
“Thanks for the meeting, it was really useful and has made me focus on the issues. It felt challenging and uncomfortable - the desired effect I guess.”
Independent Consultant
“Jim is very good at identifying and diagnosing problems and suggesting practical solutions. He has provided me with a set of diagnostic tools to help me assess the strengths and weaknesses of the way I work.”
Head of PR – University
“An Eye Opening experience, made all the more enjoyable with Jim’s friendly approach and manner; I would recommend it to anyone”
QA Manager Software Development Company
“Jim helped me realise my potential and motivated me to a totally different level than other techniques I have tried in the past – Powerful Stuff!”
Marketing Consultant
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