INTRODUCTION TO COACHING

Behavioural Coaching Services
A Division of Guru & Associates Wellness Inc.

Definition of Coaching: A structured process-driven relationship between a trained professional and an individual or team which includes: assessment, examining values and motivation, setting measurable goals, defining focused action plans and using validated behavioural change tools and techniques to assist them to develop competencies and remove blocks to achieve valuable and sustainable changes in their professional and personal life.

What will coaching do for your organization?

  • Create a more coherent vision of the future
  • Improve employee morale and bottom line
  • Employees will become more effective as systems are stream-lined
  • Lines of communication will improve
  • Difficult employees will be helped in understanding their behaviour and taught new ways to react to situations
  • Sales executives will be coached to achieve their goals and quotas and assessed for self limiting beliefs that could hinder performance
  • Increase an individual’s ability to manage themselves and others in conditions of environmental and organizational turbulence, crisis, and conflict
  • Improve an individual’s ability to manage his or her career and to advance professionally
  • Help to plan for your successor
  • Improve the effectiveness of a team to unite and achieve common goals
  • And much more...

Every situation is unique and we customize our tools to achieve the goals you seek.

Call us to learn how coaching can help you to achieve your personal and corporate goals. Call Alexandra Gellman at 416-787-4357 .

The Top Reasons Why Successful Business Leaders
Hire An Executive Coach

ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS:

  • Focused on a division or company as a whole
  • Create and articulate a company vision - you can't lead a successful company without one!
  • Position the company for future growth by improving the existing culture of the organization.
  • Politics and organizational dynamics
  • Financial (revenue, profit, cost savings, productivity)
  • Strategic planning - are you planning for the long haul or focused on reactive troubleshooting?
  • Customer Satisfaction - are you meeting their needs?
  • Developing/improving systems and processes
  • Provide follow-up coaching after a training workshop or seminar to reinforce new skills and maximize your training investment.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT :

Focused on the Leader's own skills

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses to improve overall personal and professional effectiveness.
  • Develop key strategic skills and move from being a mere technician to a strong strategic leader.
  • Help you identify and deal with blind spots that could be costing you.
  • Accelerate the rate of personal skills development - you will move faster toward your goals with the accountability of coaching.
  • Stalled in career, or newly hired/promoted into a leadership role - times when a leader needs specific skills development and support.
  • Relationship building/networking and people skills development - stop being a "Lone Ranger" and leverage your relationships!
    "Managing Up" - dealing effectively with your manager.
  • Leadership skills development/improvement - being a leader is different than being a manager.
    Advanced communications skills and listening abilities

TEAM BUILDING GOALS :

Focused on creating dynamic work teams

  • Improve the business leader's ability to effectively create and lead a strong team.
  • Improve a team's overall performance and productivity.
  • Increase team-building and communication skills among team members.
  • Increase job satisfaction of team members - keep them feeling happy, challenged and valued.
  • Ability to attract and retain talent in the team or organization - companies are now providing coaching as a standard benefit for top performers.
  • Deal with personnel challenges.

PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT :

Focused on developing the Leader as a whole person

  • Give the Leader a place to create an innovate without barr iers.
  • Get an objective opinion from someone with no vested interest in the outcome of the situation - get a fresh perspective!
  • Provide a safe place to vent (or fall), when necessary, without fear of repercussions.
  • Reduce stress, increase overall personal effectiveness, and still have a great life.
  • Work/life balance - often a challenge for a business leader
  • Have a sound board, a place to speak openly and feel understood, not judged.
  • Personal Development: you can't be a strong leader if your personal foundation is weak!

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