What is Performance Coaching?

Performance coaching is the art and practice of inspiring, energizing, and facilitating the performance, learning and development of the individual. The purpose is to help people bridge the gap from where they are to where they want to be.

Coaching is all about helping others to identify and define their specific goals and then organize themselves to attain these goals. Coaching deals with building an individual's personal skills, while drawing upon a client's inner knowledge, resources, and creativity to help him or her be more effective and reach their potential. Coaching involves a structured process of facilitating creativity, visions, goal setting, action steps, and accountability. This results in achievement, fulfillment, joy, and overall happiness.

**Note: Coaching focuses on present issues and future development and is not psychotherapy. Coaching services are NOT intended to substitute for psychotherapy or traditional psychological services.

Individual Performance Coaching Benefits

- Develop a vision which is anchored in your personal values
- Implement sustainable actions to achieve your vision
- Develop a strategy for career advancement and succession plan
- Increase focus and energy
- Overcome personal limitations which jeopardize career advancement
- Increase motivation and eliminate procrastination
- Manage work related stress
- Overcome career setbacks or other significant disappointments
- Enhance career satisfaction
- Identify and leverage personal communication style strengths
- Effectively communicate with others to get personal/business needs met
- Build personal financial reserves and simplify lifestyle
- Strengthen non-business identity and balance work and personal life
- Develop career "self reliance" and increased self confidence
- Build improved quality of life
- Overcome gaps in self awareness which hinder relationships and achievement    of strategic business results

Measured Business Benefits

According to a study by the International Personnel Management Association, training alone increased productivity by 22.4% while training plus coaching increased productivity by 88%. More details are available about the impact coaching is having in corporations based on study results. Manchester Inc. recently released the results of a study that quantifies the business impact of external executive coaching. The study included 100 executives. Companies that provided coaching to their executives realized improvements in productivity, quality, organizational strength, customer service, and shareholder value. They received fewer customer complaints, and were more likely to retain executives who had been coached. In addition, a company's investment in providing coaching to its executives realized an average return on investment (ROI) of almost six times the cost of the coaching.

Among the benefits to companies that provided coaching to executives were improvements in*:

- Productivity (reported by 53% of executives)
- Quality (48%)
- Organizational strength (48%)
- Customer service (39%)
- Reducing customer complaints (34%)
- Retaining executives who received coaching (32%)
- Cost reductions (23%)
- Bottom-line profitability (22%)

Among the benefits to executives and managers who received coaching were improved:

- Working relationships with direct reports (reported by 77% of executives)
- Working relationships with immediate supervisors (71%)
- Teamwork (67%)
- Working relationships with peers (63%)
- Job satisfaction (61%)
- Conflict reduction (52%)
- Organizational commitment (44%)
- Working relationships with clients (37%)

Increase self awareness. Learn what motivates other people. Solve specific personal, relational, or work-related problems. Identify your values and design a plan to live by them. Find more comfort and peace in life. Build healthier and fulfilling relationships with others. Eliminate obstacles and energy drainers. Get more out of life. Enhance confidence and self-esteem. Bring balance into your life. Improve health and increase energy.

Relationships

For Singles:

- Identify your relationship values and what you want in a partner.
- Understand your old values, mistaken beliefs, and unrealistic expectations.
- Discover skills to attract a partner you are interested in.
- Increase esteem and self-confidence.
- Identify methods of self-care and nurturance while dating.

For Couples:

- Improve communication skills.
- Get your needs met.
- Reduce conflict and tension.
- Deepen emotional and sexual intimacy.
- Discover skills to negotiate work, family, interests and your relationship.
- Develop pre-marital relationship skills.

For Separated/Divorced:

- Identify if you are ready to leave a relationship.
- Discover methods of maintaining confidence while negotiating a separation.
- Discover methods of communicating with your ex.

For Parents:

- Discover skills to open communication and dialogue with your child.
- Discuss difficult topics with more ease and comfort.
- Develop more time for your child and change old family patterns.
- Discover ways to motivate and empower your child.