Executive Coaching

Executive coaching. If improving your effectiveness in terms of leadership, decision-making, relationships, creativity, stress, time management, meetings or confronting sensitive issues would significantly increase the effectiveness of teams and individuals in your organisation, then coaching is for you.

Executive coaching and mentoring can help you set better goals, and reach your goals faster, make better decisions, and improve your relationships.

Executive coaching is about the future: discovering your potential and achieving it – fast. As we know, from doing it for organisations for two decades!

Try our quick check to discover where coaching would suit you.

What makes a Corporate Coach so much more effective?
Because we operate within the context of the organisation – but committed to the individual – we can perform at a higher level, bringing benefits to the organisation as well as the individual. We are able to measure results against an organisation's objectives and external benchmarks such as the Institute of Directors and Management Charter Initiative competencies.

A confidential sounding board, a friend.

What is coaching?

Coaching is "just in time" learning – as opposed to training, which could be "just in case". If coaching is combined with training, the learning can be applied and thoroughly integrated back in the workplace.

At a coaching session, you will bring an agenda of issues or items you wish to work with and your coach will help you solve problems, establish priorities and make the most of opportunities. Your coach will challenge, offer alternatives and provide support.

The Industrial Society says: "Coaching is the art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another."

Fortune Magazine says: "One to one performance coaching is the way for both organisations and individuals to significantly impact the bottom line."

Why executive coaching is for you

Does lack of time to get away for courses stop you from improving your own or your team's effectiveness? Do you lack a personal mentor, someone to act as a sounding board, someone to give honest and direct feedback?

If so, executive coaching by a mentor who understands corporate issues could be the solution. Here is why: coaching is concerned with people achieving results. It is on-the-job experiential learning - during the day or outside working hours. No time away, no reports, just improvement. And an opportunity to become a role model in your own organisation.

When did you last ask yourself these questions?

• What are my most important needs just now?
• What are my most important goals – have I got quality goals?
• What stops me from achieving my goals? What blocks, obstacles or challenges get in the way?

Coaching and mentoring help you answer these questions. Coaching at the top is cost effective and rapid – acting at the point of maximum leverage, where it can generate change and cascade behaviours through the organisation. It enables you to develop more rapidly and produce more satisfying results.

Executive coaching packages

Coaching is a process that can be offered in different contexts and different environments. We can work with individuals or teams on your own premises, at specially chosen country house hotels, at our corporate coaching centres or by telephone, e-mail or over the Internet. Which would suit you best?

We can provide team or personal development programmes – or we can work on a specific project, dealing with an issue or preparing for an event. Which would suit you best?

Find out more about our range of services: -

• Executive coaching: One to one performance coaching is increasingly being recognised as the way for organsiations and individuals to improve performance ... [more]
• Corporate coaching centres: For a really focused coaching session it pays to get away from the office. Our regional coaching centres provide a smart and convenient environment for concentrated progress ... [more]
• Distance coaching: If you are a distance from your coach or wish to work in your own time, then we can support you by telephone or e-mail with access to our wide range of downloadable Internet resources ... [more]
• Team facilitation: Coaching in its role as facilitator is particularly valuable during the budget and strategy planning season. And coaching a team before a presentation can dramatically improve performance – as well as self confidence.
• On-line coaching resources: Learn how to set a well formed outcome or try the Wheel of Life or the Wheel of Work or check your competence in personal effectiveness, managing communications, managing people, your effectiveness as a director, or review the corporate culture of your organisation. Both the process and the computer-generated feedback will contribute to your self awareness ... [more]

Or we can prepare a custom programme for your organisation. Would you like to contact us now?

This is how the International Coach Federation defines the basic coaching competencies:

• Meet ethical guidelines of the profession
• Ability to establish a coaching agreement
• Ability to establish an intimate and trusting relationship with the client
• Ability to be fully present, conscious and spontaneous
• Ability to express active listening
• Ability to ask powerful questions
• Ability to be a direct communicator
• Ability to create and raise the client's awareness
• Ability to design and create action plans and action behaviours
• Ability to develop plans and establish goals with the client
• Ability to manage the client's progress and hold him/her responsible for action

The core of coaching is building rapport, asking powerful questions and setting goals.

Corporate Coaching

Corporate coaching is executive coaching undertaken within the context of an organisation's vision, mission, values ? and strategy. By working within an organisation as well as with individuals, corporate coaching extracts the synergy that is greater than the sum of the parts.

CorporateCoach is part of the integrated change organisation, Brefi Group. We work with individual executives and with teams, and we facilitate strategy meetings, to achieve both personal and organisational goals.

• A firm grounding in business knowledge and competencies
• Thorough understanding of the world of the executive leader
• A broad understanding of leadership and leadership development
• Knowledge of systems dynamics (organisation and community)
• Knowledge of the framework of adult development
• High standards of personal and professional ethics
• Highly developed communication proficiency allowing us to operate in the executive's environment
• Advanced coaching skills and capabilities
• Stature and reputation that gains respect
• A commitment to lifelong learning similar to the leader him/herself

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What to do next

With our MBA level experience and training in the psychology of change, Brefi Group coaches possess the unique combination of maturity, professional skills and human qualities required to work with top decision-makers and the leaders of the future, whether they be in commercial or public organisations or running a small company. Such key individuals have the maximum leverage for change – they provide the leadership and role models for the rest of the organisation. They are under the greatest pressure, and are more likely to suffer from stress and an out of balance work/home life.

We can also train managers as coaches and set up in-house coaching and mentoring schemes.

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