EXECUTIVE COACHING
Why hire an XL Executive Coach?
Outlined below are some of the features and benefits of partnering with an XL Coach:
Achieve peak performance and results
Just as champion sportspeople hire coaches, high performance leaders need an executive coach to ensure they perform at their best. US based Manchester Consulting Group surveyed Fortune 100 clients and discovered:
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An average ROI of 5.7 times the initial investment in Executive Coaching, or a return of more than US$100,000
77% improved relationships with direct reports
71% improved relationships with their immediate managers|
61% improved job satisfaction |
More and more organisations are employing coaches as a critical strategy to business success. The Institute for Employment Studies UK (2000) reported that over 80% of employers are using coaching to support individuals and improve organisational performance.
In a recent Australian study (2004), Leadership Management Australia reported that 90% of people consider their own coaching experience to have been beneficial.
Maximize training and guarantee change
Human beings are creatures of habit and too often we come away from training courses inspired, only to find that pretty soon we get caught up in old behaviours. The US Public Service surveyed this and discovered that training alone increases productivity by 22%, while training plus follow-up coaching increases productivity by a whopping 88%. If you really want to guarantee sustained behavioural change, consider offering the support of an external coach or better still train your managers to coach. By building a coaching culture, everyone in the organisation will be focussed on development and that will catalyse positive change.
Overcome challenges and stay positive and focused
It can be tough, busy and lonely at the top and it's so much easier with a collaborative partner and sound-board who wants you to succeed just as much as you do.
Coaching is confidential and non-judgmental
Many of us can be uncomfortable discussing our challenges, fears and revealing our weaknesses within our organisations. Your coach has no agenda apart from wanting you to succeed. For some, the coaching relationship is the most honest and empowering relationship they have ever experienced. This leads to self-discovery at the deepest level and acceleration in personal development and professional achievement.
Develop skills and abilities, not necessarily incorporated in typical leadership training courses
According to the Hudson Report, June 2005, 'leadership in New Zealand is lacking'. To compensate for this organisations send their staff on generic leadership trainings that do not necessarily support individual leaders to focus on their specific development needs. Furthermore these trainings do not support the leader to follow through and 'walk the talk'. Hudson found that 'individual behaviour change is achieved more successfully through individual interventions such as coaching'. At XL Coaching, each program is uniquely designed to meet the specific needs of the individual Leader. Needs can be skills based, emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual in nature. We believe that our holistic approach to coaching catalyses each Manager to be the best leader they can be.
