“The Q-OPD Coaching provision is a focused,
responsive & business orientated solution”
Michelle
Cooper, Assistant Director HR & OD, Ealing PCT |
"This is the most insightful work I have ever done
and the power of its potential to me personally and therefore the organisation
is immense. Be prepared to be amazed! "
Jayne Farrin, Former
Communication Director, Network Rail |
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Q-OPD International Executive Coaching consultancy
provides premier support for Board level to Middle Management staff. The
Executive Coaches 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 and Network
Rail. Additionally, we have worked with Consultant Physicians 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
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working through real world situations |
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continually practising newly acquired skills over the course of
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using tried and tested models of such skills as: leadership,
management, communication, influence, negotiation, problem-solving,
decision-making, motivation, self-esteem, emotional intelligence, etc.
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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
Executive Coaching needs please contact either Richard Lewis or Nina Len on:
01344 484634 or by |
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Q-OPD
International, PO BOX 3810, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 7YE - Tel: 01344 484 634
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