Coaching
What is coaching?
Coaching as a development tool is used in many fields as a way to help individuals realise their potential. Coaching is one of the most effective ways of improving performance and fast tracking any type of learning.
Coaching is a professional alliance or supportive framework that helps individuals close the gap between where they currently are and where they want be in their personal and professional lives. It is results focused, delivered one-on-one over a defined length of time, and uses a structure that aims to create lasting change.
A coaching series has a beginning, middle and an end with measurable outcomes and deadlines.
Coaching is about moving forward rather than analysing the past. Coaching is solution focused and action based; it is a process to support individuals in taking real action in identified areas that are important to them.
Real coaching occurs when the agenda is driven by the individual. This refers to the individual’s agenda for themselves, their agenda for their future, and if they haven’t got an agenda, to develop one; who they want to be, how they want to live, and how the coach can help get them onto this path.
Benefits to the Organisation
Maree Armansin has completed an extensive coaching program with Results Coaching and undertaken significant practice within the field. She brings a vast array of tools and processes to the coaching space so that individuals are able to maximise their outcomes in a tailored program.
Benefits to the Organisation include:
Increased productivity due to a greater alignment of people to their motivations, values and work purpose.
Effective team behaviours as people understand their individual drivers and support each other in the outcomes of the business.
Acknowledgement and recognition of the individual contribution and unique skills and capabilities of staff.
Matching of each person to work tasks rather than the job to the person.
The process
The initial meeting will explain the process and outline the format for each session. The coach and staff member will set goals that will be worked on over each session.
The purpose of setting goals is to give individuals a vision to work towards; a vision that inspires them into action. Goals focus individuals on what is important and helps keep them focused. Each goal will then have strategies and actions and the staff member will undertake to complete these actions in between sessions. The staff member discusses any new learnings and any new insights are discussed with the coach at each session so that goals are focussed on and results are achieved.
An evaluation will be conducted in terms of a pre and post questionnaire so that learnings and goal achievement can be tracked.