INDEX for this WebPage

• What Do Employees Want?

• How Does Professional Coaching Help:  Areas for Coaching

• Areas of Human-Interaction Enhanced by Coaching

• Research Studies on Improved Performance

• Could You Benefit from Professional Coaching?

 WHAT DO EMPLOYEES WANT?  

    One of the biggest challenges facing businesses today is retaining skilled, loyal, enthusiastic, intelligent employees.  Most employers think that employees want "more financial compensation."  Hence, they focus on the annual employee review with salary raises.  Actually, when employees are asked what they want from their employer to keep them motivated, they rate the following before money:

1. Consist, frequent communication

2. Recognition

3. Personal growth and job skills training

4. Challenge

5. Promotions and/or better job titles

6. Time off wit pay, or travel benefits

7. Fun

    When employers understand these facts, they can not only increase their productivity, they are in the position to save themselves A LOT of money!  Why focus on raises when employees really want recognition and personal contact?  This is where a professional coach plays an extremely important role in increasing BOTH employee satisfaction and corporate profits.  

HOW DOES PROFESSIONAL COACHING HELP:  
AREAS TO ENHANCE WITH COACHING?

     Professional Coaching can be utilized in individual and group settings to provide Corporate Education and Intervention.   Coaching can be effectively used to provide benefits -- to build proficiency and human-interaction skills -- in each of the following areas:

• Leadership Training
  -- training on motivation
  -- guidance in incentive systems
  -- teaching to increase productivity

• Motivational Enhancement
  -- leading motivational classes

• Management Development

• Personal Growth and Development

• Goal Development & Implementation
  -- assist in structuring for new goals

• Building Problem Awareness & Identification

• Group(s) Decision Making

• Group(s) Problem Solving
  -- diagnosis and analysis of a specific problem
  -- design and assist with solutions

• Communication Patterns

• Career Pathing

• Role Clarification

• Conflict Management & Resolution

• Level of Commitment/Morale Building

• Team Building
  -- conduct a group coaching program for a specific team
  -- assist executives in developing goals and objectives
       for teams

• Establishing Reward/Encouragement Systems

• Performance Evaluation
  -- development of performance measuring systems
  -- development of performance monitoring systems
  -- assessing employee achievement

• Creating Disciplinary Protocols

• Designing Programs to Eliminate
   Sexual Harassment

• Creating Sexual Harassment Policies

• Staff Education to Eliminate Sexual Harassment

• Reducing Resistance to Change

• Improving Performance

• Mutual & Interactive Support

• Public Speaking

• Teaching key managers or team leaders to
   become coaches

WHAT AREAS OF HUMAN INTERACTION CAN COACHING ENHANCE?

    Some of the varied human interactions in which I have engaged while consulting with businesses and organizations include:

• co-owner/co-owner

• employer/employee

• employee/employee

• owner/purchaser

• owner/those in path of distribution

• supervisor/supervisor

• supervisor/supervisee

• mentor/protegee

• department head/department head

Needless to say, the list has innumerable variations!

HAVE RESEARCH STUDIES INVESTIGATED
 IMPROVING PERFORMANCE?

    Rampant in our culture is the search for how to do things better and how to make more money.  We want to live longer, play harder, work faster and more productively.  There are thousands of new books describing methods for motivating, learning, performing, accomplishing, achieving.  

    The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has reviewed the vast research literature of a decade on improving and enhancing performance.  A summary of the study's findings includes the following areas of focus:

1. Practice
   -- repetition
   -- mental practice
   -- visualization

2. Modeling
   -- observing others who are skilled
   -- copying the methods of the skilled
   -- mentoring
   -- apprenticing

3. Receiving Intermittent Feedback
   -- from employer, supervisor, mentor, coach

4. Challenge
   -- search for "optimal" challenge -- not too difficult,
       or too easy
   -- wide range of real-life experiences is found to
       develop proficiency and better performance

5. Building on Success
   -- create sense of hope and self-confidence
   -- learning from mistakes via positive critical
      reviews and realistic appraisals

6. Rewards Contingent on Performance
   -- increase effectiveness
   -- rewards can be in the form of recognition, praise,
      commendation, extra benefits, bonuses, time
      off with pay

7. Reducing Anxiety
   -- anxiety interferes with performance
   -- create skills:  relaxation; meditation; open,
       honest communication

      Each of these areas of focus can be built upon in professional coaching as solid ways to enhance performance.  Increasing performance, in turn, serves to develop self-esteem, competence and productivity for the employees; and to increase profits, corporate stability and low employee turnover for the employer.

COULD YOU -- AND/OR YOUR BUSINESS -- BENEFIT FROM PROFESSIONAL COACHING?

    If you, your business or your organization has coaching or consulting needs, please do not hesitate to call: