COACHING

Coaching is a developmental experience for professionals in leadership positions who want to enhance their capabilities and performance. Coaching clients often want to increase their skills for a current task, increase their leadership performance in their current role, or develop capacities and behaviors for a new or future career. Coaching allows individuals to identify characteristics and behaviors that would result in higher performance and minimize the potential for derailment of professional and personal goals.

Coaching is best suited for the leader who:

• Desires a personal approach to development
• Has an objective to improve skills and behaviors to meet professional goals
• Welcomes the structure provided by a one-on-one experience (e.g., planning and goal setting, support while learning, accountability)
• Is in an organization that values and supports individual coaching
• Looks forward to putting new behaviors to use for personal growth and organizational success

Coaching is a collaborative process for growth and change. The client and coach meet in person or talk by phone on a regular basis (usually weekly to start). Three months is the minimum coaching engagement with six months to a year being a more realistic timeframe for real change. While coaching goals and reaching those goals are unique in every coaching agreement, typically coaching includes:

• Customized assessment including individual assessment and/or 360-degree feedback
• Goal setting and action plan development
• Feedback and coaching (in-person and phone)
• Ongoing progress review and evaluation

To explore coaching, contact Susan Gunn at 804-353-9527 or email info@workdyn.com.