BUSINESS COACHING

In a business coaching situation, the manager or employe and the coach form an interactive partnership to achieve professional and often times personal goals and objectives within the business’s or organization’s goals and objectives.

When hiring a business coach, you will typically engage in a continuous progression of conversations, observations and practice sessions with your coach. The coach will help you clarify personal values, set realistic and achievable goals and develop and follow through with strategic action plans. A coach will ask challenging questions to shake your model of the world and will gradually assist you to “peel the layers” off the issue you are working on.

Business coaching is an umbrella term to include all types of business and organizationally related coaching. Business coaching can include internal and external coaches who work as business coaches, corporate coaches, executive coaches, leadership coaches, organizational development coaches and many other types of coaches.

Business coaching emerged in the 1980s as part of the leadership development programs that became popular then. Just about anyone in business can benefit from using a business coach.

EXECUTIVE COACHING

Coaching provides personalized assistance in enhancing performance and career goals.

Some of the areas a coach can provide support in includes but is not limited to:
Developing your personal and/or organizational mission
Clarifying your purpose
Leading from your deeper core values
Cultivating your leadership strengths and balancing your limitations
Recognizing and acting on your intuitive insights
Increasing your self-confidence and self-esteem
Building positive relationships with employees
Giving supportive feedback to others
Resolving conflicts
Transforming stress and becoming calmer
Mastering time
Developing your creativity
To be effective in today’s world, leaders must have a compelling vision of where they are going in order to effectively meet today’s needs. They must be skillful at taking action to make their visions a reality, using smart strategies with achievable goals. Visionary leaders are successful in communicating their vision to others, encouraging people to share and expand the vision, and inspiring them to act. Visionary leaders work on developing inner strength and depth of character, motivated by timeless values and principles. They learn the importance of balancing mind, heart and will. They think in terms of whole systems and promote win/win outcomes.

BUSINESS CONSULTING

Effective Ways to use Business Consultant

There are a many ways that a specialized and experienced consultant can help someone structuring their business plans and leverage on opportunities whether they are just starting out or have already been established. Among the services offered are: business plan preparation and creation, problem solving, trouble shooting, informal and formal Alternative Dispute Resolution, program and project management, investor presentations, startup mentoring and coaching, web design and strategy, personal financial planning, ownership transition planning, as well as implementation and analysis. A consultant gives advisory services to help senior management improve the effectiveness of corporate strategy, processes and operations.

LEADERSHIP

Increasing Need for Visionary Leadership

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery. But that’s exactly what’s missing in business today. Lack of self-mastery is why so many business heroes wind up in court. Worldly power without self-mastery is the downfall of leadership.In these times of constant and rapid change and shrinking budgets there is a real need for visionary leadership and creative problem solving. Visionary leaders provide an inspirational picture of the future and a clear sense of direction on how to get there. They have developed their own inner resources to find innovative ways of addressing unprecedented levels of complexity and competing demands from stakeholders on all sides. They present a challenge that calls forth the best in people and unites them around a shared sense of purpose. They work with imagination, insight and boldness, and create effective new strategies to express their vision.

VALUES
Visionary leaders know that values are more important than ever before as business, government and nonprofit organizations are impacted by a constantly changing world. They need to ask: What are the values upon which you will build your organization for the future? What values do we all share in common? How can you make sure that your organization is value-driven?

VISION
Ethical values are the source of effective visionary leadership, as creative insights come to those who seek to serve the highest good. A vision of where you want to go, based on values yields long-term success. Leaders must ask and find answers to how can you help bring your organization’s vision and mission into alignment with your most deeply held values? How can you effectively engage people in carrying out that mission?

VITALITY

Vitality is the energy that manifests your vision. Where can you find the energy required to navigate through crises and embody your values? What are the subtler energies at work behind the scenes in your organization that either drain or build its vitality?

Focus points are:
living from core principles and values
setting and achieving goals
creating a shared vision
empowering employees to develop and use their talents
developing the balance of mind, heart and will
using a personal assessment tool to evaluate strengths and weaknesses
overcoming any self-created barriers to success
thinking in win/win terms
developing innovation and creativity
thinking strategically about the future, using insight as well as foresight
keeping the big picture and the vision in mind

SPIRIT IN THE WORKPLACE

Organizations around the globe that are enhancing spirit at work report not only increased happiness and creativity among their employees, but greater productivity and profitability. Spirit means that people can express their highest qualities and values at work as well as at home and in our communities. When people are in tune with their spirit and are encouraged to express it, the work environment becomes a thriving community infused with a commitment to quality, enthusiasm, honesty, respect, creativity, integrity, openness, and compassion. By contrast, the symptoms of repressed spirit show up as apathy, low morale, gossip and backbiting, fear, turf battles and power plays, high absenteeism and turnover, and chronic health problems. It is no wonder that more and more organizations are consciously putting “spirit” to work.

Focus points:
identifying what spirit at work means to the individual and the organization
focusing on values and living up to them
learning the power of integrity and openness
appreciating employees
encouraging creativity
using inspiration to motivate
creating a harmonious environment

SHAPING THE FUTURE: BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL “CHANGE AGENT”

Literally all organizations today are constantly challenged to deal with change and use it as a driver for being creative and proactive. The ancient Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times!” relates to the paradox that change is perceived as uncomfortable and destabilizing, yet it provides the fertile ground for better ways of doing things. In “interesting times” such as these we have the opportunity to be bold and visionary in creating positive solutions to the challenges we encounter. When people understand how change works, they can chart the course they want to follow by evaluating where they are now, seeing where they want to be, and thus creating a livable design for getting there.

Focus points:
understanding the dynamics of change
turning challenges and crises into opportunities
the nature of paradigms: how are they both useful and stifling?
identifying organizations current structures: how do they serve you? limit you?
developing flexible, innovative thinking patterns
revitalizing people and renewing the organization

COMMUNICATING MORE EFFECTIVELY

Good communication skills are the core to create openness, trust and collaboration in the workplace. Many unnecessary conflicts arise not because of real differences, but because of poor communication. A key to effective communication is good listening skills—listening with an open mind and heart and giving the speaker your full attention. A good communicator projects confidence, authority and decisiveness. S/he avoids attacking others or blaming them. By being direct and honest in communications, you can make it safe for others to be honest. By asking direct questions rather than deducing someone’s intentions from your fears, you can be more effective. Good communication skills are a major tool for lifelong success.

Focus points:
appreciating diverse communication styles
understanding body language and non-verbal cues
listening actively—mirroring the content and feelings of the speaker
giving and receiving constructive feedback
transforming conflict
projecting authority
being assertive rather than aggressive
avoiding self-discounting language
expressing energy, enthusiasm and appreciation
asking problem-solving questions instead of judgmental ones

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