Executive Coaching
The coaching process opened up my mind and helped me to understand the importance of different issues such as communication, information sharing and vision of a business.
It is important that as many people as possible have the chance to develop them self in this way, so they can teach and develop others within the business.
This process is important so people could open their eyes and understand the vision of the company.
Björn Falk, Ocotber 2008
Casino Manager
Apollonia Casino
Jugosven d.o.o.
Partizanski Odred 1
1480 Gevgelija
Republic of Macedonia
bjorn.falk@apollonia.com.mk
Tel: +389 34 213 300
Mobile +389 70 218 469
www.apollonia.com.mk
A recent client and Managing Director of a UK PLC estimated the impact of the executive coaching he received to be a £6.8 million increase in revenue within the first three months of coaching. Consequently, he recommended that every one of his company's Board directors should experience the benefits of executive coaching.
Overview
Coaching is more than a skill or a technique for individual
and team development. It is invaluable for task performance
and delegation. It can be deployed as effectively for quick
management interactions as it can in a half hour coaching
session.
Coaching
is a powerful tool for developing leadership and employee
performance beyond the typical skill and motivational approaches
to professional development.
Embedded
in the process of on going communication and relationship
building it delivers practical, common sense approaches to
developing people and services, and is a powerful way of creating
excellent results.
Most
importantly it places people at the top of the agenda in action
not just in word and is an essential management style of the
high performing company culture of the future.
We provide a broad range of services to enhance the performance, sustainability, leadership, culture, communication and social responsibility of organisations and the individuals who comprise them.
Our approach and success is characterised by a strong commitment to our clients and their people and a concentrated clear focus on achieving outstanding results for them where we are certain that we can bring truly bring reality, quality and value.
Benefits to the individual
The coaching process enables individuals to:
- Clarify and focus on key targets
- Strengthen self-belief, awareness and responsibility
- Identify and challenge the factors that are blocks to effective performance
- Improve emotional intelligence (EQ) and thereby enhance teamwork
- Create ideas and solutions that enable improved levels of success
- Align personal and organisational values
- Make more efficient use of time, staff and resources
- Take risks, rise to challenges and adapt to change
- Commit to and drive actions to successful implementation
In his book Coaching for Performance, Sir John Whitmore highlights the following as the benefits of adopting what he calls a coaching culture:
- Improved performance and productivity
- Staff development
- Improved learning
- Improved relationships
- More time for the manager
- More creative ideas
- Better use of people, skills and resources
- Faster and more effective emergency response
- Greater flexibility and adaptability to change
- Increased motivation
- Increased commitment
- Culture change
- A life skill
Importantly, these skills will feed into benefits to the organization.
Benefits to the organization
- Reinforced company culture and values
- Values harnessed in everything that is done
- Employees delivering on their potential
- Strengthened morale through better ability to find the way by themselves
- Improved communications across all levels
- Greater initiative taking
- Aligned personal and management aims, interest and values
- A better working atmosphere
- Enhanced sensitivity for customer needs and service
- Increased personal awareness and through it awareness for social and environmental contributions made by the company
