Coaching is a great way to invest in your people and in your company. We have three coaching programs that we will customize to meet your employees' needs.

Leadership Development

Superior Performance

Stress Reduction

Leadership Development

• Are you a good leader or are you a great leader?
  
• Were you promoted to a leadership position with little or no training?
  
• Must you rely on personal experiences to meet leadership challenges?
  
• Do you know how to elicit teamwork?
  
• Are you able to coach your staff to give their personal best?
  
• Do you know how to be open and honest while remaining in charge?
  
• Can you communicate your vision in a compelling way to your staff?

Most people are promoted into leadership positions with little or no training in leading, managing, and developing people. This leaves new and not-so-new leaders little choice but to adhere to personal, subjective beliefs and often to rely on inadequate knowledge to guide them in solving complex business issues.

Leadership comes with responsibility and with a tremendous opportunity to affect all staff, peers and senior management company-wide. Using the workplace challenges of the client, this program will develop the self-knowledge and range of leadership styles necessary to elicit top performance from others. Every leader deserves the opportunity to receive personalized Leadership Development training to move from good to great. This is the core of our program.

Great Leaders

• Are high in self-knowledge and self-awareness. They are introspective and regularly engage in self-reflection.
  
• Effectively manage their emotions; they are able to be positive, upbeat and responsive to others.
  
• Are confident, decisive, and influential; they are courageous and willing to act even in the face of adversity.

Coaching for Leadership Development: Program Details

• Emotional Competency Inventory: a 360º assessment instrument that measures the developmental level in each of the 18 competencies that makes up Emotional Intelligence.
  
• Signature Strengths Assessment Test.
  
• Road Map meeting(s) to review assessments and set goals (three hours).
  
• Optional one hour meeting with client and manager to clarify client goals.
  
  
• Five months of coaching via teleconference: standard format is weekly 40-minute meetings, three times per month. Other formats are negotiable between client and coach.
  
• Post-program assessment with client and manager if applicable.
  
• Recommendations for future goals.
  
• A strategy for sustaining results after the coaching has been completed.
  
• Quarterly follow-up for one year after the completion of the coaching.

What do managers want from their employees?

•  Take and follow direction well
  
•  Adapt easily to change
  
•  Meet deadlines
  
•  Show initiative and resourcefulness
  
•  Be prepared for meetings
  
  
•  Follow proper protocol
  
•  See the big picture
  
•  Be a team player
  
•  Communicate well and support others
  
•  Show enthusiasm

What stops employees from achieving superior performance?

• Difficulty with a colleague
  
• Inability to delegate
  
• Indecisiveness
  
• Poor communication skills
  
• No time management practices
  
  
• Lack of clarity
  
• Low motivation
  
• Constant interruptions leading to poor concentration
  
• Inability to prioritize
  
• Work and life out of balance

Performance is both an individual and a team endeavor. It is a never-ending dance choreographed daily between all staff up and down the organizational chain, between management and senior management and with every customer of the organization.

Performance training is for everyone, not just those identified for the management track. Superior performance will deliver superior results, and under-performance will hurt your business — after all, an organization is only as strong as its weakest link. Can you really afford to have anything other than superior performance from your people?

Give us your staff and we will give you superior performance. Let us prove it to you. With the right tools, your people can accomplish more — and in less time.

Coaching for Superior Performance: Program Details

• Signature Strengths Assessment Test.
  
• One hour roadmap meeting to set up client goals and review assessments.
  
• Optional one hour meeting with client and manager to clarify client goals.
  
• Three months of coaching via teleconference: standard format is weekly 40-minute meetings, three times per month. Other formats are negotiable between client and coach.
  
  
• Post-program assessment with client and manager if applicable.
  
• Recommendations for future goals.
  
• A strategy for sustaining results after the coaching has been completed.
  
• Quarterly follow-up for one year after the completion of the coaching.

Stress is painful — it removes the passion and joy from life.

Stress kills motivation — without motivation performance goes down.

Stress inhibits the immune system — vital health protection is lost.

Stress symptoms

Stress is a serious business issue

On an individual level, stress impairs performance, negatively impacts relationships with others, and increases the risks for illness and life-threatening diseases.

On an organizational level, stress creates a negative workplace culture, strips away creativity, reduces company output, and increases health care costs across a broad spectrum.

It is not possible to remove all stress from the workplace; it is possible to teach your staff how to manage their stress without impacting their performance and their health. Using cutting-edge tools and practices, our highly trained coaches create individualized learning to bring stress under control and free your workforce to be their personal best.

Coaching for Stress Reduction: Program Details

• Freeze-Framer Interactive Learning System: an easy-to-use software program, learning system and patented heart rhythm monitor that has been designed to prevent, manage and reverse the negative effects of stress.
  
• Signature Strengths Assessment Test.
  
• Guidebook and other relevant information on stress.
  
• One hour roadmap meeting to set up client goals and review assessment test.
  
• Three months of coaching via teleconference: standard format is weekly 40-minute meetings, three times per month. Other formats negotiable between client and coach.
  
• A strategy for sustaining results after the coaching has been completed.
  
• Quarterly follow-up for one year after the completion of the coaching.