What is Coaching?

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What is Executive and Professional Coaching?

  • It is a partnership focused on aligning your inherent values while enhancing learning, performance and quality of life.
  • Executive and leadership coaching is a one-on-one partnership designed to reach your performance, developmental and career goals.
  • This partnership, or designed alliance, will address your whole life and focus on where you are now and where you want to go.
  • Weekly contact can provide a sounding board and strategic partnering, along with powerful facilitation for personal growth.
  • The executive and leadership coach is an objective partner who will support and yet encourage you while in pursuit of your goals.
  • Above all, the client gains an ally whose primary motivation is their success.

Executives and professionals utilizing coaching report the following benefits from their coaching experience including the following:

  • Increased productivity
  • Stress reduction
  • Enhanced relationships
  • Work-life balance
  • Inspired leadership
  • Increased effective communication
  • Rapid conflict resolution
  • Self Discovery
  • Enhanced emotional intelligence
  • Behavioral enhancement
  • Time management
  • Achieved personal goals
  • Reduced executive isolation
  • Moving out of the urgent tactical issues to hold a more strategic view

What is Organizational Coaching?

Organizational coaching is a process to develop a company’s strategy to optimize the highest return on their employees’ talents, strengths and performance. Anthos Group’s aim is to assist the professional sector achieve their performance goals with excellence by working with teams and individuals, developing their strategy to engage their greatest asset, human talent. Anthos Group is a business that develops both organizations and people.

Coaching in an organization involves several steps that include:

  • start with an objective assessment of an organization’s existing methods, systems, and leadership capabilities
  • coach the organization through a discovery process to identify what must be changed, why it must be changed and how to change it
  • follow through with coaching to implement new management systems and develop required leadership skills

The areas where coaching has been most beneficial include:

  • Talent retention
  • Increased customer service
  • Enhanced business performance
  • Breaking new ground and developing fresh ideas
  • Creating high-performance teams
  • Continual professional development
  • Building key leadership competencies
  • Supporting key personnel through change and culture shifts
  • Bottom line profitability

The International Coach Federation Definition of Coaching

Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

How does coaching work?

In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and asks the questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action.

Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Credentialed coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and application of the coaching process.