Coaching for Performance

Coaching Services
* Coaching for Performance
* Coach Skills
* Seminars
* One-Day Workshops
* Coaching Index

The Hire Net.Work has developed this advanced communications and coaching skills program, given over a three-month period, for organizations that are committed to challenging leaders, executives and senior managers to raise their standards, engage their teams, and improve their leadership effectiveness and competencies.

This dual component program consists of a two-day workshop The Coaching Clinic© and three months of coaching. In the workshop, participants are given a new tool chest of coaching skills. Over the following three months, they are coached through the process of integrating their new skills into their own style and work place role.

	Discover coaching as a communication and leadership model
	Develop competency in core coaching skill that can be implemented immediately, through experiential learning and peer practice sessions.
	Understand and apply the Coaching Conversation Model ® - a conversation process that is intentional, provides structure and creates a progression towards an outcome.
	Experience one-on-one executive coaching to integrate the skills learned in the workshop to each individual participant's style of leadership and communication.

Our Comprehensive Dual Component Program

The agenda for the Coaching Clinic ® Workshop component of the program includes:

Being a Coach:

Why Coaching – shifting the culture
When to manage and when to coach
The "umbrella" of coaching
Benefits of being coached

The Five-Step Process of Coaching in the Work Place:

The ‘Coaching Conversation Model ®
The structure of a productive coaching conversation
Creating Coachable Moments ®
Having purposeful conversations that saves time

The Tool Chest of Coaching Skills:

Contextual Listening ®

- Set aside your agenda and listen to what is being said, and what is not being said, listening beyond words
- Avoiding quick assumptions and the urge to decide what to say in response, simply saying what you heard to verify

Discovery Questioning ®

- The process of asking sharply focused questions that lead to exploration or produce solutions – asking questions about what's missing
- Knowing when to ask closed or open-ended questions

Acknowledging

- Endorse and acknowledge the behaviours that lead to results
- Recognize progress and contributions of the individual
- Promote deeper personal growth and behaviour development

Personal Coaching Styles Inventory (PCSI) ®

Define your personal coaching style
Recognize other styles for effective management
Coach across styles

Coach Techniques:

Facts and Filters – how our knowledge, experience and intention filters what we hear and influences what we say

Neutral Language – Deliver words, questions and statements without judgment or blame

Case Scenarios:

Practice sessions with individuals, groups, teams
Important management situations

Plus a choice of two of the following:

Messaging:

The skill of converting what needs to be said to a language that is succinct, neutral and timely
Discerning the mismatch between what is being said and what is being done
Requests that lead to new possibilities, methods and results

Tough Conversations / Performance Management:  

Learn to provide feedback for the “tough” conversations, like performance feedback
Know when to speak as a Manager and when to speak as a Coach
Avoid giving mixed messages when we speak to others

Coaching in Organizations:

Define how coaching will support your organization
Identify the barriers to coaching
Create a personal action plan to apply these new skills in your current role

Customized Module:

One of the keys to making coaching effective is practical application. We work with your team to develop an application module that suits the immediate need for coaching in your organization. Examples of some of these modules are:

Career Management
Significant Change Initiative
Culture shifts
Human Rights Issues
Reward and Recognition
Sales Force Effectiveness
Solving Critical Business Issues