Workplace Coaching

WORKPLACE COACHING

Contracted by companies to help employees who need to improve performance in the workplace, change problematic behavior, and/or improve workplace relationships. Also contracted by companies to support, retain, and reward outstanding performers.

It begins with an assessment that often originates either from the individual's superior, a performance review, a 360-degree feedback process or informal data gathered by the individual. The focus then moves to designing objectives and working toward accomplishing them. At the same time the approach used integrates work with the demands of family, community, and other pursuits or talents that continue to need attention or expression.

Throughout the coaching process the client owns the agenda, for each meeting as well as for the process as a whole. During the meeting the client, with my support as coach, focuses on accomplished results, best practices that led to these results, and obstacles that interfered with success. Then I help the client to determine the next specific desired results and their order of priority. These desired results become the objectives for the time period between this meeting and the next meeting.

Although the basic process is the same for all clients, the approach varies depending on the goals of the organization, the skills in need of development, and the client's learning style and personality. The amount of time necessary to accomplish the objectives also depends on these differences.