Coaching Programmes

The coaching programmes we have include:

Coaching for Performance

Performance coaching specifically addresses building knowledge and skills to improve an executive’s performance in a current role.

The need for Performance Coaching can arise from a number of sources, the executive may be aware of the need to perform better in certain areas, the personal appraisal system may indicate the opportunity to build certain competencies and senior management may identify development opportunities to further the executive’s success in a particular role.

The range of topics covered in Performance Coaching is extensive and significant time is invested in the Initial Coaching Appraisal session to determine the exact goals and measures of success.

Issues typically covered in such programmes include: effective team leadership, time management, interpersonal skills, communication skills, business strategies, building a solution focused approach, stress management etc. This list is indicative only and coaching is applicable for a large majority of issues. The coach and coachee co-design a bespoke programme to address the specific goals identified.

Benefits

As the individual explores and implements new strategies many will lead to higher performance
This performance improvement is frequently noted by other team members and line management
The individual will develop a greater sense of confidence and motivation as new ways of working lead to new successes, it can lead to promotion for the individual in the organisation
The Return on Investment benefits of coaching including performance coaching for line managers can deliver returns in the order of 500%+
The process of reviewing and embedding success strategies at the conclusion of the coaching leads to long-term sustainable change and performance.

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Coaching for Personal Development

Many organisations are moving towards the belief that an individual’s personal development is more than a function of placing employees on training courses. This programme is specifically designed to work with individuals to put them firmly in charge of their personal development with the individual pro-actively seeking opportunities for growth, both in the professional and personal arena. Typically individuals’ motivation and commitment increase as they map out opportunities for growth and realise changes.

The programme is designed for the individual to set out a plan and more importantly to bring alive that plan so that it becomes more than a piece of paper reviewed annually. It builds self-responsibility and self-accountability for personal development.

This coaching programme brings alive an individual’s PDP and integrates it into their everyday working life. This approach supports individuals to address areas that may be hindering performance, creates compelling developmental goals and charts progress towards achieving the goals. This format embeds the benefits of the continuous focus on PDP.

Benefits

PDP identifies clear areas to focus on related to the 360° feedback (where used)
The programme creates a compelling plan and sets a way of working for current and future phases of the PDP process
Though PDPs tend to be organisationally specific, they can include a piece to describe fully the current and desired positions which helps individuals to track changes and monitor progress
A clearly articulated and descriptive action plan, including formal and self-directed learning to drive progress
The PDP sets short and medium term goals for development and growth
It can build an attitude of self development versus a reliance solely on training.

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Conflict Management

Unmanaged employee conflict is perhaps the largest reducible cost in organisations today ¬and probably the least recognised. It is estimated that over 65% of performance problems result from strained relationships between employees. Exit interviews reveal that chronic unresolved conflict acts as a decisive factor in at least 50% of all departures.

Many managers associate conflict in their teams with crisis, failure and disruption. Few count the real costs of conflict. Few realise the potential of contention and conflict to drive learning, innovation and productivity. Few realise that there are many options for dealing constructively with conflict while proactively managing the risks associated with it. Fewer still take the time to build the capability to do so.

This coaching programme is for those who wish to develop positive and proactive approaches to dealing with conflict rather than waiting until the crisis is upon them. The programme offers new ways of thinking about conflict that unlock new strategies and skills for working constructively with conflict.

It helps participants reduce the costs of conflict, manage associated risks, build confidence in confronting and resolving conflict, and helps transform conflict into learning, creativity and high performance.

Benefits

Participants will:

Evaluate the costs of conflict and the benefits of changing the way they deal with it
Review their mindsets regarding the potential and function of contention and conflict
Discover the power of diversity and contention for innovation and productivity
Build the personal resilience and emotional competence needed to engage constructively in contention and conflict
Develop the personal skills and capability required to resolve and transform conflict
Identify and change ineffective conflict strategies and behaviours
Learn effective language and communication patterns
Be able to help others resolve and learn from conflict.

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Behavioural Coaching

Ascentia offer two distinct approaches to address deeper seated issues that may be affecting performance and fulfillment in both personal and professional lives. Candidates who are interested in these programmes typically are open to exploring their thinking, curious about the events that shaped their lives and will challenge some deeply held beliefs and assumptions. Both approaches can have a transformational effect on the individual.

The Self Leadership programme is more akin to a coaching approach, albeit working at a deeper level than standard coaching approaches
The Breakthrough approach is an NLP based approach working with the unconscious.

Clients who have experienced either of these programmes report significant and long-lasting positive impacts in both their professional and personal lives.

Breakthrough Sessions

This programme has been designed to support people where there are deeper seated issues which are preventing the individual from performing to their true ability. This often shows up in recurring patterns of behaviour which do not support the individual in achieving their goals.

Breakthrough sessions are extremely powerful in enabling individuals to restructure their performance, leadership and management styles, achieve new goals and make significant progress in their fields of focus. People tend to feel more balanced, more alive and with more energy and enthusiasm.

Breakthrough Sessions enable clients to develop and work with more empowering strategies to achieve their personal and professional goals. This NLP based approach is used increasingly to support Senior Executives, to move forward in a wide variety of organisations.

Self Leadership

The programme addresses the key components that influence our behaviour and works through a structured process to understand more clearly the strategies that the individual currently runs in responding to outside events. Successful strategies are built on and unsuccessful strategies are changed/replaced.

The programme would typically address the following:

Understanding the drivers of human behaviour
Examining the current actual strategies used by the individual. This includes our physiology, the language we use, our beliefs and our values
Creating a set of empowering strategies to take the individual forward and to create opportunities to build these in both the working environment and personal life
Planning for the sustained application of these tools in the future.

The programme would typically involve four sessions with the client completing exercises and following up between sessions.

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