Business Coaching
Business coaching can help you achieve your best.
“Coaching is a conversation, a dialogue, whereby a coach and coachee interact in a dynamic exchange to achieve goals, enhance performance and move the coachee forward to greater success.”
Source: Perry Zeus, Suzanne Skiffington, The Complete Guide of Coaching at Work, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
The purpose of business coaching is the enhancement of one’s performance at work. Coaching can address issues of communication, time management, leadership, problem solving, conflict resolution and strategic thinking.
Business coaching is sometimes subdivided into executive coaching (in which issues faced by senior management are addressed) and business coaching (targeted primarily for middle-management and small business).
What is not coaching?
Coaching differs from consulting in that a coach does not provide you with expert advice on a particular issue. Rather, a coach brings to the interaction a range of tools to help you achieve greater self-awareness, clarify goals, implement action plans, and achieve greater fulfilment in your personal and business life.
A coach acts as a sounding board to your ideas and helps you achieve positive change.
What are the benefits of business coaching?
As business coaching has developed into a recognised profession, the benefits of business/executive coaching have been widely documented. These include:
- Increased productivity
- Increased loyalty to and responsibility for the organisation
- Better strategic thinking across the organisation
- Improved organisational systems
- Improved leadership abilities
- Improved communication
- Reduced conflict
Several large corporations have established a more than five-fold return on their investment for a coaching program such as ours.
Methodology
Productive Impact applies the latest behavioural coaching methodologies to assist you in your journey towards change.
Each of our clients can expect to receive a personally created one-to-one diagnostic coaching program. However, there are a number of generic steps that we follow in all coaching assignments to ensure a thorough assessment of your particular issues in order to produce lasting results.
The graphic below details our five-step approach:
The diagnostic step is critical to the whole process as its role is to precisely quantify your current behaviours. Current behaviours are profiled in order to establish a constructive diagnostic. These profiles are used either as guidelines during the coaching sessions or are filled in by the coachee in between sessions.
We may decide to use other assessment tools (such as Peer Interviews and 360° Feedback) if we find it appropriate for the particular working environment being looked at.
The duration for a coaching program may vary enormously depending on your needs and learning profile. Each step in our successful methodology can range from a single educative session to up to 10 sessions for more complex issues. Nevertheless, you can rest assured knowing we will provide for you a program tailored specifically to suit your personal needs.
Contact us today and rejuvenate the way you approach your work by starting a coaching program with Productive Impact!
testimonials
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“Cyrille’s down to earth, open and honest nature made him very easy to work with. Throughout the coaching sessions he was generous, insightful, and encouraging, but never pushy.
Cyrille guided me as I became the architect and owner of my development. By asking the right questions and acting as a mirror, Cyrille helped crystallising my random and scattered thoughts into clear, obvious, actionable solutions to my questions and needs.”
Grace Ho, Associate, Pacific Strategy Partners
