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What is Coaching?

Coaching is helping someone to focus on specific goals and encouraging and supporting them in working out how to achieve those goals. A good coach will provide extrinsic feedback to the learner during this process, but at the same time stimulate the learner’s own intrinsic feedback as well.

Benefits of Coaching

It is increasingly recognised that individuals and groups perform better with coaching and that this performance translates into business results:

“Inspiring and motivating people to grow their self-awareness and identify their unique abilities is such a powerful process.”

Developing individuals in different ways through coaching:

Coaching Programmes

Our aim through coaching programmes i.e. where we train line managers to act as coaches to their teams, is for them to get more out of their teams by being able to delegate more, develop their direct reports and motivate their individual performance.

Executive or Individual Developmental Coaching

With individual one to one coaching, our purpose is to give individuals control over their learning process, to clarify their goals and develop a framework to make things happen in their lives.

Coaches act as external stimulators to the potential that other people hold within them.

Research into Benefits

Manchester Consulting Inc. have conducted what is believed to be the first major research project to quantify the business impact of executive coaching. In a study of 100 executives who had undergone coaching, return on investment (ROI) was 5.7 times the initial investment outlay. Other less tangible business impacts of coaching included:

A study by Gegner explored the outcomes of the coaching progress from an interpersonal and intrapersonal perspective. As a result of coaching, executives reported that they had become more aware of self and others and that they assumed more responsibility for their actions. They all reported positive changes in performance.

Team Coaching

However, coaching can also take place in a team setting. We can coach a group of individuals to ensure their collective development into a high performing team.

Benefits of organisational coaching programmes:

Leadership Development - Mentoring and Coaching Skills

As part of the emphasis being placed on leadership development within SITA, Lis Merrick has been working with a number of senior executives globally to actively engage with them to enhance their understanding and capability of mentoring and coaching.  These are critical leadership capabilities, which used effectively, will greatly augment their leadership skill set.

Lis is holding five coaching sessions with each of them to cover the following areas of mentoring and coaching knowledge, process and skills:

On a more specific level, coaching provides an answer to some of the new type of challenges facing today’s leaders. It allows leaders to:

Coaching with WWF

Lis Merrick has been asked by WWF in Gland, Switzerland to coach a number of individuals who have been placed in new challenging leadership positions globally.

This coaching is aimed to improve performance and is conducted as a mixture of telephone and face-to-face coaching.

Whessoe Oil and Gas Ltd

Implementation of a Coaching Culture

Whessoe did not have the budget to bring in external coaches, nor did it want to build external dependency for it’s coaching, so its focus began on the development of their internal coaching capability.

Whessoe developed their own internal system and:

Coach Mentoring Ltd worked with the Senior Management Team and HR at Whessoe Oil and Gas Ltd to design and implement these processes and the evaluation feedback showed considerable growth towards achieving the coaching culture that was being sought.

Click here to read the full plenary speech describing this process made by Jon Dale, MD Whessoe Oil and Gas Ltd, at the UK EMCC Conference 03 April 2007