Thursday, April 17, 2008

Business Coaching

Business Coaching
Business coaching is the practice of providing support and occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognize ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business. Business coaches work to improve leadership, employee accountability, teamwork, sales, communication, goal setting, strategic planning and more.

It can be provided in a number of ways, including one-on-one tuition, group coaching sessions and large scale seminars. Business coaches are often called in when a business is perceived to be performing badly, however many businesses recognize the benefits of business coaching even when the organization is successful. Business coaches often specialize in different practice areas such as executive coaching, corporate coaching and leadership coaching.

Business coaching is not the same as mentoring. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced "mentor" and a less experienced partner, and typically involves sharing of advice. A business coach can act as a mentor given that he or she has adequate expertise and experience. However, mentoring is not a form of business coaching. A good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching in order to provide quality business coaching services.

Business coaches often help businesses grow by creating and following a structured, strategic plan to achieve agreed upon goals. Multiple organizations train professionals to offer business coaching to business owners who may not be able to afford large coaching firm prices.

Coaching is not a practice restricted to external experts. Many organizations expect their senior leaders and middle managers to coach their team members toward higher levels of performance, increased job satisfaction, personal growth, and career development. Those that do back up their expectations with training in coaching skills, access to feedback tools, and/or specific coaching behaviors described in their leadership competency models. Few link coaching activities to compensation, however, resulting in less coaching by managers

These days, business coaching is being looked at as the perfect add-on tool to effective man management. The coach sits outside of the usual circle of collegues or peers, so there is a huge amount of freedom for the staff member or executive to 'share' themselves and open up effectively to the coaching being provided.

There are some of the companies we have worked in with our coaches.

SONY ERIKSSON:


NLP techniques for quality selling skills

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK:


Influencing and Negotiation Skills

AMERICAN EXPRESS:


The Business Results Bridging the gap between management and first line support

CELTIC TECHNOLOGIES (Land reclamation experts):


The Power of Successful Selling

SAINSBURYS:


Career Change Consultancy

CABINET OFFICE WHITEHALL:


Communication skills training and one to one coaching

ERNST AND YOUNG:

Coaching Skills


HOME OFFICE:
Training staff in NLP techniques

STANDARD LIFE:

Winning at Presentations


GRANADA:
Culture Change

LEND LEASE:


Presentation skills, motivational coaching skills and management development skills

FIRST PLUS (Finance House):


Recruitment & Selection Interviewing

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:


Communication Skills for Teachers and performance enhancing skills for the pupils

Reference: dating-coach-anita.blogspot.com

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