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Executive Coaching Consultancy

Executive Coaching Consultancy

Q-OPD International Executive Coaching consultancy provides premier support for Board level to Middle Management staff. The consultants are all highly experienced Senior Managers and / or Business Psychologists. Our clients at Board Level include: Johnson & Johnson, Leo Pharmaceuticals, Smith & Nephew, Napier University Edinburgh, Network Rail.

Additionally we have worked with Consultant doctors within the NHS and Senior Managers within the Home Office.

WHAT IS EXECUTIVE COACHING?

Executive Coaching is the structured, outcomes-led process whereby a Coach supports and guides an individual through business challenges enabling them to become more effective in their role. As such, Executive Coaching is about helping the individual to develop their critical thinking skills. Such critical thinking is based upon the ability to exercise enhanced levels of awareness and to assume ownership of problems and challenges.

The process helps the individual to clarify issues, challenge limiting beliefs, generate solutions, evaluate options and decide on a final compelling course of action. In addition we use behavioural change techniques to enable the person to quickly and easily change unhelpful behaviour.

It is widely acknowledged now that the development of non-technical skills in the workplace best occurs by

(a) working through real world situations
(b) continually practising newly acquired skills over the course of several months
(c) using tried and tested models of such skills as: leadership, management, communication, influence, negotiation, problem-solving, decision-making, motivation, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, etc.

Executive Coaching, consequently, is recognised as the most effective way of delivering these three critical elements in the workplace and has been shown in large-scale studies to be more effective than traditional training courses, executive retreats and computer-based programmes. The application, in turn, of these coaching skills by the individual to their own staff or colleagues is being heralded as the way of creating the Learning Organisations of the future. In short, such executive coaching will enable your staff to improve their performance in key results areas by unlocking their potential and teaching them how to learn.

WHAT IS THE Q-OPD COACHING APPROACH?

Q-OPD use a proven and structured approach to coaching individuals and teams that combines the very best of organisational psychology together with the highly personal and tailored style used by top mentors. Consequently, a typical sequence of events would be:

(a) A preliminary face to face to determine what the individual’s outcome is and establish typical ways in which we can assist the individual
(b) Optional completion, by the individual, of a range of suitable personality questionnaires and perhaps 360 appraisal in order to help raise their levels of awareness
(c) Feeding back and clarifying the results of the above questionnaires
(d) Starting the coaching sessions proper during which the individual will be assisted to: accurately assess their current situation, generate practical options and strategies, decide on a motivating plan of action and address any concerns and doubts. Specific non-technical skills necessary for successful achievement of the individual’s outcome will be covered during these sessions
(e) In-between coaching sessions the individual will select specific parts of their strategy to work upon and/or new or expanded skills to practice
(f) The coach will be available by phone, fax or e-mail to provide on-going support and encouragement.

HOW WILL YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION BENEFIT FROM EXECUTIVE COACHING?

Whether you are an HRD manager, departmental head or supervisor you will have at your disposal a highly effective means to
  • Support the long-term development of high performing senior staff
  • Consolidate on internal and external developmental programmes: especially leadership, management and corporate governance
  • Help ‘fast track’ candidates to realise their full potential
  • Provide ‘remedial’ support to valued individuals who are currently experiencing major problems that are seriously impacting on their performance and effectiveness – such problems may be of an inter-personal nature or be individual’s experiencing ‘career crisis’.
The individuals coached will be able to:
  • Identify specific issues that impact on their key results areas
  • Discover and develop their full potential
  • Operate at optimum performance
  • Be coaches themselves and thus empower their teams to discover creative solutions
  • 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
  • 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
  • Is likely to require support over a period of time
  • Has tried other approaches without success.
WHAT ARE THE MEDIA SAYING ABOUT EXECUTIVE COACHING?

“One to one performance coaching is the way for both organisations and individuals to significantly impact the bottom line”
Fortune Magazine

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organisation's valuable resources"
Harvard Business Review

"Across the corporate world, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings"
Investor's Business Daily

INFORMATION

For further information or to discuss your development needs please contact either Richard Lewis or Nina Len on: 01344 484634 or by
 
 

Q-OPD International, PO BOX 3810, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7YE - Tel: 01344 484 634 - Fax: 01344 484 676