Corporate Coaching
Corporate coaching (or business coaching as corporate coaching is frequently referred to) is often misunderstood in the business world. Some believe that hiring a business coach is a sign of weakness in the leadership and/or the organization. Coaching is frequently seen in relationship to performance issues, professional development needs, or behaviors that need to be "fixed."
In fact, coaching is a leadership tool that is quite different than pure performance-based counseling or mentoring. Coaching supports the professional development of average performance into high performance, it centers in building people's core skills and talents. It is focused on where the client wants to go, it expands on that what is working, not on fixing behavior that is not working. Coaching brings out the best in each and every individual and thus raise overall organizational performance and increase the bottom-line.
As a professional corporate or business coach I, inspire and empower executives, employees and businesses to new ways of thinking in order to create a level of consistent high performance - all with the intention of maximizing organizational success.
Let's imagine an athlete working towards their big event, the Olympic Games. With whom do they partner to achieve their goal? Indeed a trainer and coach -- multiple coaches even. These coaches are not there to teach the athlete a different sport. Rather, they "fine tune" and tweak the athlete's, already, high performance to achieve maximum results and lasting success.
This is very similar to corporate coaching. Corporate coaching is a strategic business tool that helps the company or organization and all its employees, from executives to assistants, bring their performance to the next level. Just like an elite athletic coach, a corporate coach is essential to achieve business goals and create a structure, and environment of continued success.
Since each of my clients has different organizational needs I tailor-make all my corporate coaching programs.
What are the coaching benefits?
The benefits of coaching are numerous and include: increases of happiness, balance, health, business and personal success. Organizations that invest in coaching also find significant profit to their bottom line. Several studies have shown Return On Investments as high as 500%. Corporate coaching especially generates a positive impact by:
- Attracting and maintaining quality people.
- Increasing retention of skills and knowledge from training.
- Enhancing personal and overall effectiveness increase.
- Improving leadership (teams) and professional development.
For a free consult and overview what Niels Johnson-Lameijer's corporate coaching can do for your company call me at 805.617.3513 or send me an email.