Philosophically Speaking…
Executive Coaching fosters: - Becoming the employer of choice (people will want to work for your organization)
- The "Higher up the Ladder" coaching is implemented, the larger the impact – invoking a "spill down effect". For organizations who implement coaching, and where phenomenal people skills are evident at the top levels, the results show these management styles and skills will filter down to all levels – as these traits will be fostered, creating a tremendously successful organization.
The higher you go up the corporate hierarchy the value of hard skills decline and the value of soft skills increase. |
Organizations engaging executive coaching will often enjoy a tremendous and powerful occurrence / phenomenon which is:
When executives introduce……
Bring…….
Adapt……..
A "Coach Approach" management style, the ripple effects often include a "coach-like" environment fostered with middle-management coaching …. bringing out the best in people …. communicating better…. (more effective, more positive, more relating, more comprehensive) and a synergistic momentum of "what can be achieved together", by tapping into each manager’s potential.
These types of rippling effects can powerfully and positively change a corporate culture! When there is this type of powerful, positive energy flowing, companies enjoy:
- engaged employees
- a healthy bottom line,
- improved profitability / revenues,
- positive and dynamic corporate image / reputation,
- energized morale (employees, management, suppliers etc),
- visable corporate leadership
- and satisfied customers!!
Areas where Executive Coaching can effect positive change include: - Time Management skills
- Organizational skills
- Communicating your vision to Internal Resources (“team buy-in”)
- Goal-Setting
- Strategic Planning / Mind-mapping
- Communication Improvements
- Improved People Skills
- Life Balance (Professional and Personal Development)
- Creative Development and Conversation (a place for New Ideas and Approaches – “Blue Sky Discussions”)
- Brainstorming – “What if?... What about?.... How to?..... “
The 2007 ICF Toronto Chapoter PRISM Award was won by Sysco Canada and the PC team of coaches. As one of the PC Team associate coashes, TERAGRAM's founder and CEO Margaret Miller, was acknowledged for her excellence in her leadership coaching work with Sysco Canada.
TCCG’s experience spans many different types of industries including:
- Corporate Environment
- Associate / Not-For-Profit Environment
- Unionized Environments
- Educational Sectors
- Service Environments
- Retail & Franchise Environments
- Manufacturing
TCCG's Group’s experience includes many sectors such as:
- Food
- Media (Television / Print / Advertising / Radio and New Media)
- Medical (Doctors / Chiropractic) / Hospitals
- Pharmaceutical
- Public Sector
- Chemical
- Research & Development (R & D)
- Aerospace
- Technology
- Real Estate
- Audio
- Engineering
- Medical
- Transportation
- Finance
- Insurance
- Chartered Accounting Firms
Our executive coaching included the following critical traits:
- Trusting & Collaborative Environment
- Providing an unbiased, third-party perspective
- Non-judgmental sounding board where any & all communication is welcome and held in strictest of confidence
Additionally….. With longer term coaching relationships the ability to potentially provide and accommodate feedback and responsive coaching, from a 360 degree perspective, while factoring the experiences and peripheral knowledge about that individual and/or the overall organization, brings a unique partnership to assist executives. With longer term coaching relationships, the road traveled leading up to the current timeframe, brings a trusted partner whom can understand situations or current events from an “inside out” position. Solutions can be accelerated because of the “hand in glove”, in-sync relationship where background information is understood.  Click here to read "Team Coaching"
While changes in the way organizations do business has created an unprecedented demand for coaching cultures, the new technology tools embraced by those corporations make adopting that culture easier, ... "In the past, knowledge was often power. What information technology has done is make knowledge readily available right across organizations," she says. "Individuals can now access data, surveys, all kinds of information that enables them to create and substantiate suggestions for improvement. If encouraged to think beyond the box, they have the tools to do it."
Another advantage of coaching is that it is of benefit to almost everyone within an organization, not just executives, ... But he notes that the most successful corporations are those where senior managers have been trained in coaching techniques or come naturally to it.
"If you look at highly successful organizations, almost all of them have a coaching culture," he says. "That is because there is a direct and measurable link between continuous coaching and bottom line results. In those organizations, it is not just managers who are driving the business. Everyone realizes they have a stake, and everyone drives the business."
Exert from The National Post, Monday. April 18, 2005, Human Resources; "Coaching unlocks employee talents" |
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