executive coaching
 
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What if your employees were more focused? More satisfied? What if their strengths were built upon, leveraged for greater personal and professional success? What if they were more purposeful in life and work? What if they were less stressed?

Maybe your company has adapted successfully time and time again. Maybe your company is at a turning point. Maybe your company is struggling with legitimate concerns about how to make it through the next round of changes.

Regardless, several issues are constant. Companies need to make more than they spend. Workforce demographics are shifting. Employees are increasingly stressed and concerned with work-life balance. HR is concerned with retention and rising employee health care costs. Everyone is looking for returns on investment. Common to all of these is the desire for a healthier and more profitable workplace.

 

But how do you reconcile all this? . . .Forward thinking companies are turning to coaching.

Over recent decades, Fortune 500 and other companies have increasingly utilized coaching services to leverage individual and organizational success. Originally a luxury reserved for upper-level management, coaching is now being implemented across organizations.
 
why coaching?

The growing popularity of coaching is evident in newspapers, magazines, television, and other media. Coaching clients commonly report moving forward more rapidly and achieving higher levels than they originally thought possible. One recent study by Metrixglobal states "The bottom line: Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business. Including the financial benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%."


Specifically, companies identify the following:

In their employees who participate in coaching:

  • Increased focus and purpose
  • Improved goal-setting (goals are defined in a way that is concrete and achievable)
  • Increased creativity and innovation
  • Improved ability to turn obstacles into competitive advantages side_coaching_c
  • Decreased stress levels

In terms of organizational effectiveness:

  • Reduction in stress leave and other leave of absences
  • Reduced employee turnover/Increased employee retention
  • Reduced health-care costs
  • Improved corporate culture
  • Higher employee morale
  • Better bottom lines

what is coaching?

Coaching is a resource that encourages the development of individuals to achieve both personal and organizational aspirations.

Coaching occurs in the context of a powerful relationship between each individual employee and a coach. Coaching is not simply a process of imagining a different future. As opposed to simply defining the gap, it encourages concrete movement in the present moment, thus bridging the gap between where the client is and where he/she would like to be. Actions are aligned with values for sustainable growth and development.

The focus is on the client. Goals are clarified. Successes are not only celebrated but built upon. Challenge is central. Accountability exists. It is an inspiring relationship that encourages bold action in the present.