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COACHING SERVICES We offer a network of talented coaches and consultants who can help you realize individual and collective potential. Our certified coaches are proud members of the International Coach Federation (ICF), trained through the Adler School of Professional Coaching.
Quick Links Why Coaching?Coaching is "the missing link" in the traditional approach to learning. Many of the traditional approaches of imparting new knowledge do not translate into changes in behavior. Coaching is a far more effective solution. Coaching engages the uniqueness of the individual. Coaching is an ongoing relationship that raises awareness, connects the client with their passions and strengths, and holds them accountable to get the results they want. People grow and change with a coach. Coaching as Follow-up to Training. Talk to anyone about what's broken in the current learning and development process, and most will tell you it's the lack of serious post-training follow-through. The best organizations are the ones that expend 10 times the amount of effort reinforcing the training they deliver as they did in conducting it in the first place. As a primary follow-up strategy, coaching improves application back on the job from 20 to 80%! Coaching as a Primary Learning Strategy. Our 24/7, fast-paced life and work styles have created a breed of people, and a breed of leaders, who suffer from an imbalance: a lot of action with little or no reflection. They're chasing "what works" but are disconnected and displaced from "what matters." Coaching provides a space where the creative and intuitive work of reflection can occur. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that, "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us." Coaching ensures that this doesn't happen! What is Coaching?
Coaching is an art of discovery more than a science of delivery. The use of questions and conversation in coaching means that the coach begins from a posture of humility and curiosity, not authority and knowledge. The coach serves as a catalyst in the client's own journey of discovery. This inquiry approach makes respect for the expertise of the client its starting place. The inquiry model is built on a belief that real growth must come from within. It cannot be grafted onto a leader, as the instructional-consulting model suggests. Coaching through inquiry helps individuals use what they're innately good at. It helps them build on their strengths, develop flexibility and change-readiness, create awareness of shortcomings and build commitment to self-development and achievement. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural gifts and talents. One-on-one coaching is a helping relationship. It is based on the desire of the coach to assist the client in performing at his or her personal best and the willingness of the client to stretch and grow. A coach plays the role of confidante, sounding board, champion and mirror. What leader wouldn't want someone on his side with whom to discuss creative ideas, doubts, petty irritations, and the performance implications of all of those?
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"I can wholeheartedly endorse coaching as a critical component of leadership development in our organization. I attribute much of the success of our Southwest Business Unit to the vision of the Business Unit President who enthusiastically made coaching available to his Regional VP's and Area Managers. I believe that the outstanding performance indicators of our newest business unit are a direct result of the coaching services offered by Gifted Leaders. There's no question that our investment in coaching has been money well spent." - Rick Duckworth, SVP Operations and President, Renal Dialysis Service Provider More Gifted Leaders Services
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