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|  Professional Coaching Services be great to have someone ideas, geughtsated to your success. And onfidential. What is WCA Coaching? We work with a five step process to help our clients: · Assess carefully the current situation and strengths · Identify the results clients want · Build their belief that they can achieve them · Carefully build an action plan to get them to the ends they want · To hold themselves responsible for achieving those ends. How Can Coaching Help? Business coaching brings a number of benefits to organizations: It can help you: · Create the strategies and flexibility needed for organizational excellence · Retain new managers and executives · Support key staff in their professional development · Improve and manage organizational culture · Consolidate diversity initiatives · Improve leadership skills of strong technical people · Ensure transfer of learning from training WCS will help you achieve bottom line goals by addressing work process issues and relationship issues. While we help you with short-term goals, our ultimate aim is to help you achieve long-term results – excellent performance, satisfaction, and pride in your work and life.  What You Need to Know About Coaching Services: Executive development is a critical aspect of all organizations. In 1996, training and education efforts aimed at managers totaled $14.5 billion in the U.S. ( Vicere, 1998). One of the more recent approaches to executive development has been called coaching. Distinct from other forms of training, coaching focuses on the method of learning. Under a coaching paradigm, it is believed that “the more an individual is involved in identifying problems, in working out and applying solutions for them and in reviewing the results, the more complete and the more long-lasting the learning is. This form of self learning tends to bring about learning with a deeper understanding than learning that is taught.”(Redshaw, 2000, p. 106). To give this more perspective, “coaching is very different than teaching or instructing. It is best described as facilitating. The coach encourages the learner to learn for him/herself...As well as acquiring new job competencies, the learner gradually develops new and more effective learning skills. He/she becomes a proactive learner, capable of learning from almost any experience encountered.” (Redshaw, 2000, p. 107). Coaching is most effectively employed when it is used to do one or more of the following: - support individual and organizational change performance, possibly by increasing congruence with the mission;
- provide adequate support to enable personal transformation and career role transition;
- support the development of future leaders for the organization via enhanced ability for strategic thinking, providing vision and direction, accelerating change, intellectual honesty, integrity motivating and energizing people, teamwork, and partnering, influencing, delivering results, valuing all people, and/or developing people;
- provide an adequate container to address a specific problem area or challenge; and
- support and facilitate the creation of an organizational culture that values learning, creativity, and continuous improvement.
What’s the Difference Business coaching includes principles from sports coaching such as teamwork, personal excellence, and "going for the goal." But unlike sports coaching, business coaching is not about competition or based on win/lose. A business coach focuses on helping an individual "learn what it takes" for him or her to improve existing capabilities, set meaningful goals, and be accountable for his or her results. A coach helps an individual understand and eliminate barriers to more effective performance.
The following table illustrates these distinctions:
Process | Supervision | Mentoring | Consulting | Coaching | Driving Thought | I know how. Do it my way | My Experience is | I am an expert. That is what you are paying me to tell you. | How can I support your learning? | Public Statement | “Do it this way” | “This is how I would do it” | “This is how to do it.”
“This is how you should do it.” | “What have you tried? How has it served/disserved you? What else is possible?” | Public Action | Required Compliance | Guidance & Advice | Direction, Method, Technique, & Information | Explore, experiment, and learn new ways of working, thinking and being, personally and professionally. |
What Coaches Do! Coach’s help individuals set and achieve desired goals. Coaches utilize questions and assessment tools to help individuals become more effective. For example, initial interviews could be used to create a baseline for why coaching is being requested. Often the coach completes a “take-in” interview and observes the client in action for a day or two to better grasp the dynamics within the organization. Beyond the initial interview, assessment tools could use to more specifically pinpoint an application for the client, such as leadership skills, emotional intelligence, personality types, that may or may not involve a prior completed 360 degree feedback. Through the insight gained from assessment tools and observations by the coach, individuals become more self-aware of their strengths and barriers, and develop strategies and plans to reach their goals. Types of Coaching Targeted Content Coaching: This type of coaching is designed to expeditiously impart knowledge and/or skills. Often the individual has been promoted and needs accelerated learning either in the background that supports the position or skills to support the effectiveness of the individual, such as computer literacy, financial acumen, time management, presentation and writing skills. Personal/Life Coaching: In many ways, this is personal growth work, where the individual seeks to create a more balanced way of living. Similar to career coaches, individuals typically hire these coaches to provide personal support in exploring personal improvement and self awareness. Life coaching aims to help clients discover and achieve their personal goals. The most successful approach is constant refinement. This is the reason why it is vital to have a life coach, so that the client can understand why an approach does not work. Personal coaching is a method which helps individuals discover her/his real self, to find out the relevance of her/his life and achieve her/his personal goals. A specialty service of WCS is assisting clients develop a personal and effective Life/Work Plan.
Feedback/Debriefing/Development Planning: As the name suggests, this type of coaching occurs when an individual’s performance needs to be assessed and/or redirected. Typically, a 360-degree feedback is completed. The results are reviewed and a developmental plan is created. The coaching tends to be focused and short-term. In the past, this was simply a task completed by consultants as a management assessment or appraisal with remedial training. Career Coaching: This form of coaching is typically engaged as a competitive edge for an individual, even though some organizations provide it as a developmental support. The focus is to support the individual in developing a career plan, make critical work-related decisions, such as job moves, and planning career transitions, such as retirement planning and job succession.
LEADERSHIP: Leadership coaching converts an able executive/manager into an exceptional leader who can motivate the entire team of professionals working under him/her to reach great heights. Leaders learn to make others work to their potential and achieve the predefined organizational goals. A coach can guide and support managers to become leaders, who empower their employees to take intelligent decisions and not just conform to outdated procedures. Leadership Coaching helps executives/managers to reflect and grasp realities and channel their creativity to achieve organizational goals. COACHING DETAILS
Features | Waterhouse Coaching Services | Sessions per month | 3 phone sessions per month/one every ten days | Session length | 30 and 45 minutes | Email access | Unlimited | Emergency access | Yes | Experience in all manner of careers | Yes | Real business experience | Yes | Schedule flexibility | Days - Evenings | Monthly Coaching Unit | 3 - 45-min sessions | 3 - 30-min. sessions |
*Organizations or executives seeking one-on-one leadership training can contact WCS for quotes.
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Examples: Empowered by the Spirit Within - Leadership Training Seminars - Live Life Empowered Productivity vs. Multi-Tasking - Why Hope Mattes NOW Waterhouse Coaching Services Enlighten Empower Encourage Willow Spring, NC 27592 919-621-9179 wsw@waterhousecoaching.com | |
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