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Corporate Coaching

Corporate Coaching is the newest method of employee training, and it has gained a lot of traction in the business world. Although it is being widely implemented, most people do not understand what corporate coaching is and what it is not.

 

Today’s version of corporate coaching derives its origins from executive coaching sessions of the past. These sessions were originally implemented to deliver specific and measurable results through benchmarks and goals. Corporate coaching has been shown to have a much bigger ROI than regular corporate training.

 

What Is Corporate Coaching?

Corporate coaching is not a form of classroom learning like many other corporate training programs. Corporate coaching is deeply motivational, and it strives to inspire employees to reach certain goals. This type of coaching concentrates on the individual, their happiness, and what they can do to help the organization be successful.

 

A good corporate coaching session teaches employees to maximize profits and productivity without being too forceful to any people who may work with them. Corporate coaching, when done from the top-level, changes the way an organization operates. Once senior management starts acting differently, the changes from the top work their way down and the organization changes.

 

What Corporate Coaching Is Not

 

Although it may sound like it at first, corporate coaching is not life coaching. Corporate coaching teaches strategies and tactics that make sure tangible improvements happen. Every company or organization is different, so the coaching is never set in stone. Corporate coaching methods are not a one size fits all solution for problems. Everyone is different, and so are the answers to the problems he or she may be having.

Corporate coaching is not impact learning, which is learning by a one-time exposure to an event. Impact learning, or regular corporate training, typically only has a 2% retention rate among employees and is considered by many experts to be a waste of resources.

 

Executive Coaching

In the business world, OK is often not good enough... This holds especially true for the people who make the key business decisions in an organization. Corporate coaches help executives reach high levels of excellence. This is important because when an organization is transformed, it must start from the top and work its way down.

Coaching executives helps in the transformation of an organization from mediocre to excellent. Corporate coaching can transform an organization's performance by strengthening executive talent. Improving executive talent improves performance by enhancing leadership strengths that coincide with business goals.

Team Development

Developing teams from the inside out can lead to great successes. Corporate coaches believe that members of a team intrinsically know the problems a team is facing and that they often are the best suited to offer solutions and ideas.

A corporate coach tries to bring these problems to light by encouraging team members to speak up about problems and creating a safe environment where differences can be discussed. Corporate coaches design and administer surveys to analyze team data for strengths and weaknesses to identify where developments need to happen.

Corporate coaches provide insight and skills to help people communicate and interact effectively. They can teach managers how to be effective leaders, and how to tweak their actions to get optimal performance. A corporate coach will teach leadership, corporate culture, communication and working relationship management.

Workshops And Seminars

Workshops can change the way people approach their problems. Presentations give people ideas and new ways of looking at things, ideas that they may have never thought of before. When trying to change attitudes in your organization, a workshop is a good place to begin.

A unique presentation tailored to your organization can be made when a corporate coach comes to collaborate with executives and workers. The coach makes a presentation that is aligned with your corporate culture and employees in your organization.

Petra Nicoll
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