Workplace Coaching

• ‘A coach is someone who shows you how to do or master something, whether it be reaching an important goal or making a difficult change. A coach stays with you and helps you select the goal, engage with it, progress through it, achieve it, and integrate the accomplishment into your life’
• ‘With a coaching background, you can show people how, not just tell them’
• Thomas Leonard describes coaching in an energetic way ‘coaching has officially been available with both a personal focus and a business orientation. You can now use a coach to get your personal life together ,he can also take care of your personal training needs from gympalmdesert.com, set and reach goals, start and expand a business, get faster ahead in business, improve your job performance, communicate better with everyone’
• ‘Coaching is a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful coach requires a knowledge and understanding of the process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place’
• ‘Coaching is about performing at your best through the individual and private assistance of someone who will challenge, stimulate and guide you to keep growing.’

The Benefits of Coaching

• Developing potential (untapped talent)
• More effective working relationships
• Greater capacity to identify, manage and support challenges and change
• Creates engagement and therefore greater retention from good employees
• More Benefits
  • Alignment of organizational vision and mission with members
  • Creating cordial relationship
  • Mutual respect
  • Creating “human” leaders
  • Collaboration or healthy competition
  • Resolution of conflicts
  • Creating possibilities
  • Improving business results
  • Better work environment
  • Business knowledge
  • Coaching culture
  • Making leaders into coaches
  • Different view of performance management
  • Continual feedback
  • Institutionalized HR systems that include coaching
  • Openness to learning from each other
  • Commitment / involvement of top management
  • Flexible work culture

Some More Benefits!

• Personal growth of individuals
• Mechanism for self-growth of organization
• Member (employee) satisfaction
• Develop better leaders as coaches
• Able to build a culture of listening and respect and trust
• Effective communication
• More awareness of ethics and values
• Improved morale
• Increasing productivity
• Growthopportunity more inclusive – Mindset Change (Vertical vs Horizontal)
• Strategic role of human resources
• Task orientation to roles of managers
• Relationship orientation to roles of managers
• Optimizing existing human resources
• Driven by managers / leaders by Walking the Talk
• Create happier people at work
• Encourage learning
• Rewarding authenticity
• Aligning values across the organization

Typical Coaching Interventions

• Developing leadership
• Developing a coaching style of management
• Accelerating the learning from operational activities
• Improving communication skills
• Improving presentation skills
• Developing delegation
• Improving negotiation skills
• Developing the skilled management of conflict
• Managing stress
• Working with potential burnout or derailment
• Mastering time management
• Building an influencing strategy and influencing skills
• Career planning

Pre-Programme – Preparatory Work
Before the first workshop each manager will:

• prepare by focusing on ‘The Power of Coaching’. By reading articles (sent electronically) which illustrate the power of using coaching as a management style
• identify and bring 2 current challenges which they will use when being coached by colleagues during the programme
• complete an MBTI profile (Myers Briggs Type Inventory) electronically

OBJECTIVES:

• To understand the definitions and role of coaching in organisations
• To learn some coaching tools and models
• To practice coaching techniques
• To develop great coaching skills

Performance measures
To help you increase your awareness of your coaching skills and abilities you will undertake the following –

• Feedback Forms: Every exercise includes a feedback form to be completed by the coach and the client
• Coaching Action Plan: You will develop a coaching plan at the end of this workshop. This will be based on the feedback you have received from this workshop. A copy will be sent to the training department.