Team Efficiency
A number of key conditions need to be met for a team to work together efficiently. Extensive research at Harvard Business School found that there are 5 enabling conditions for efficient teams. They need to:
- Form a real team and feel like a team
- Share a compelling purpose
- Be organised in a structure that supports the purpose
- Operate within a supportive context
- Have access to expert coaching
Accountability
Creating a culture of accountability is the key to sustained high performance.
Whilst most of us will have heard the saying "What doesn't get measured doesn't get done", the truth about accountability is a little more complex than measuring and monitoring. In most organisations today performance can no longer be measured with just a few key indicators. Perhaps counter-intuitively, KPI's can even create competition for resources where cooperation would provide better outcomes.
Performance
Giving consistent, honest feedback and having difficult conversations at work is one of the most challenging tasks of the leader's role
Whilst much is made of the importance of honest, real-time feedback and courageous conversations at work, few of us know how to do this well. Leaders and staff generally know what they are supposed to do, but actually doing it can mean enduring increased levels of anxiety about the imagined outcomes. With GenY entering the workplace in increasing numbers, performance coaching is going to become a must-have skill for managers. Whilst the need for coaching is not confined to GenY employees, they have a much higher need for and expectation of being coached.
Executive Coaching
Accelerate your journey to leadership excellence and become a well-rounded leader through coaching.
Coaching is the most effective intervention when it comes to expanding your current leadership skills and flexibility.The key to becoming a well-rounded and highly effective leader is to add to your existing emotional competencies. For example, if you are currently adept at being directive or pace-setting in your leadership, you will probably struggle with being affiliative or democratic. Similarly, if you good at being visionary and democratic, you may struggle with being directive when required.
Group Coaching
Addressing issues embedded in the organisational culture
Our Group Coaching for groups of managers or intact leadership teams can achieve quick improvements in leadership effectiveness and address current issues and opportunities in the organisation. Group coaching is effective when you aim to address common issues which are usually related to the organisational culture. These may include a number of common problems, such as lack of accountability, poor decision making strategies, avoidance, insufficient performance management, lack of strategic focus, inefficient operations and a silo mentality. Because we are dealing with shared issues, leaders will learn from each other when working through individual examples and we can build sufficient momentum and ‘quick wins’ for a cultural sift to get underway.
With 20 years coaching experience at all leadership levels between us, we have the skills and experience to successfully address any coaching scenario. We coach for business outcomes and we coach jointly, providing the best combination of emotional and intellectual insights and pooling our vast expertise in understanding individual and organisational behaviour. We translate established facts from Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Organisational Psychology and Behavioural Economics into small, simple and practical steps applicable to the situation, culture and people in question.