Executive Performance Coaching Course

This highly popular 3 day Performance Coaching course is an important part of our Executive Coach programme. The Executive Coach Programme is made up of a number of courses, which integrate with each other to provide specific skills sets for existing or aspiring coaches. Other courses in the Executive Coach series are: Emotional Intelligence, 360 Appraisal Feedback and the NLP Business Practitioner. We also have a number of one day Key Skills workshops which will give you an overview and some practical skills in these subject areas.

WHY ATTEND THE EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE COACHING COURSE?
Would it be useful to:

• Have a straightforward model that will allow you to structure your coaching sessions for maximum results?
• Use your academic background, practical skills and experience for 1 to 1 coaching in industry?
• Transform the performance of individuals and teams and enable them to 'significantly impact the bottom line'?
• Utilise techniques that enable your clients to change their behaviours easily?
• Address key behavioural development areas identified at individuals' appraisals quickly?
• Maximise the transfer of skills and knowledge from training courses back to the work place?

Are you:

• Working as a Trainer, HRD professional, OD or Management Consultant and wish to add Executive Coaching to your existing professional portfolio?
• A senior manager, or enjoy supervisory responsibility, and would like to develop your staff by being able to coach them in a discreet yet inspiring manner?
• Considering a significant career transition, after having worked successfully in a particular profession for a number of years, and are drawn towards the idea of becoming a respected Executive Coach?
• Wishing to achieve greater financial autonomy, perhaps even planning ahead for your retirement, by becoming trained as a highly professional Executive Coach?
• Thinking about using your academic background, practical skills and professional experience for 1 to 1 coaching in organisations?
• Already working as an independent and want to take your coaching practice to a new level of excellence by mastering skills that other coaches simply do not have?

If so then this course could be for you. The Executive Performance Coaching Programme covers in depth the structured, outcomes-led process whereby you guide an individual through business problems and challenges in order to clarify issues, challenge limiting beliefs, generate solutions, evaluate options and decide on a final compelling course of action by utilising their own unique resources. Your client's / coachee's use, in turn, of these skills in a company setting with their own staff or colleagues is being heralded as the way of creating the Learning Organisations of the future. In short, such coaching will enable your clients and their staff to improve performance in key results areas by unlocking their potential and teaching them how to learn.

HOW IS THE COURSE STRUCTURED?
You will receive a pre-course study pack prior to attending and be encouraged to complete some recommended reading. In addition we ask you to complete a Personality questionnaire and you will receive a report on the course, which describes your Coaching and Influencing style. As part of the programme you will receive a comprehensive manual and a toolkit of exercises and models that you can use with your clients.

The course is structured to appeal to all learning styles and provides a mixture of theory and practice in the form of; stimulating talks, lively discussions, realistic role-plays and real world case-histories.
You will:

• Understand the basis of Executive Coaching
• Know how to implement the Q-OPD Executive Coaching Process©
• Master the Q-OPD Executive Coaching Model©
• Internalise the Coaching Questioning Compass©
• Discuss the use of specific validated personality instruments, Emotional Intelligence and the place of 360 Degree Appraisal in coaching
• Learn how to use accelerated behavioural change techniques in the coaching process and much more …..

Q-OPD Coaching Model

• Structure the coaching process to help the individual obtain optimum results
• Use effective methods to help diagnose needs, clarify issues and select important development areas
• Use the Q-OPD Coaching Process© , Coaching Model© & Questioning Compass©
• Utilise powerful behavioural techniques to change limiting and ingrained behaviours quickly and easily
• Appreciate the 3 additional roles involved in providing a full mentoring service to CEO's / MD's and board-level staff
• Appreciate the difference between Executive Coaching versus Mentoring & Counselling

As part of your pre course study, you will be asked to complete a Personality questionnaire. Feedback will be given during the programme which will give you insight into your preferred coaching and influencing style.
HOW WILL THE PEOPLE YOU COACH BENEFIT FROM THIS TRAINING?
This is a 3 day programme will enable you as a coach to help an individual by:

• Developing their critical thinking skills and taking ownership of their current situation
• Identifying the developmental areas that will have maximum impact on their performance in order to discover and develop their full potential
• Be coaches themselves and thus empower their teams to discover creative solutions
• Appropriately defining and articulating goals and considering their consequences
• Solving problems in creative ways - generating strategic and behavioural options
• Develop enhanced communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

WHEN WOULD YOU RECOMMEND EXECUTIVE COACHING TO BE USED?
You would recommend executive coaching when an individual:

• Wishes to change key behaviours identified by formal appraisal processes (e.g. 360 Degree Feedback) or from direct feedback 'on the job' quickly and effectively
• Would not feel comfortable addressing a problem or performance issue in a group setting
• Does not have the time to attend a training course
• Feels it is more appropriate to address their development needs in confidence with an 'independent' specialist (this is especially the case with CEO's / MD's and very senior staff)
• Is likely to require support over a period of time
• Has tried other approaches without success.

WHO WILL BE RUNNING THE PROGRAMME?
Your Trainers
The modules are presented by experienced Business Coaches who have held senior management positions within the corporate world and currently work as Organisational Psychologists within Industry.
The core Q-OPD programmes are run exclusively by Nina Len and Richard Lewis. Nina Len has a Masters Degree in Occupational Psychology, is a former Senior Manager in Industry and is a Certified Trainer of NLP.
Richard Lewis was formerly Strategic Development Director of a Multinational, MBA Lecturer and is also a Certified Trainer of NLP.

The programme will provide you with:

• A robust, effective and structured method that you can use to obtain outstanding results with your clients or staff
• Emphasis on self-development as much as the client-development
• Plenty of opportunity to practice new skills, techniques and models

Q-OPD have, over the years, paid meticulous attention to all of these issues and have developed an on-going programme to satisfy the key requirements of effective Executive Coaching Training.

For further information please telephone Q-OPD International, Tel: +44(0) 1344 484634