CORPORATE COACHING

Corporate coaching is the synergistic fusion of individual coaching and management training applied to an entire organizational team.

Kashbox Coaching is a pioneering leader in the development and application of this dynamic, new management tool. We believe it is the most effective means for promoting positive, rapid, and lasting organizational change. Certainly it is one of the most significant management innovations of the past fifty years!

Corporate coaching addresses organizations as holistic, networked systems rather than as collections of discrete “silos.”

Because on-going support is provided to all members of the management team, the entire organization increasingly shares the same vision, mission, strategy, and values. The result: Dramatic improvements in communication, commitment, teamwork, and accomplishment.

Corporate coaching promotes significant, lasting change because it transforms attitudes and habits, in addition to teaching new knowledge and skills.

American businesses spend approximately $19 billion annually on leadership training. Unfortunately, research shows that much of that money is wasted because people don’t apply what they’ve learned.

On-going corporate coaching, on the other hand, transforms attitudes and habits, so that people are motivated to apply their new knowledge and skills. Change is effective and enduring because the process fosters initiative, collaboration, and ownership of results.

The corporate coaching process utilizes both group training and private coaching sessions. Face-to-face coaching is supplemented by telephone and e-mail contact.

Let us tell you more about how corporate coaching can enable you to maximize the contributions of every member of your management team every day.

To learn more about how our corporate coaching works, read Corporate Coaching Helps Heal a Hospital.

INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Individual coaching is a confidential, non-judgmental, action-oriented, goal-focused relationship between client and coach that exists solely for the purpose of promoting the success and fulfillment in all areas of the client’s life.

Mounting evidence suggests that managers are significantly more productive and successful with a coach in their corner. They are better able to set goals, establish and balance priorities, plan their careers, make positive behavioral changes, overcome obstacles, and take other actions that lead to meaningful accomplishment.

At the initiation of a coaching relationship, clients complete some important assessment exercises and background training that helps to accelerate progress by identifying issues that need to be addressed.

Typically, our individual coaching clients schedule 30-minute phone conversations with their coach two or three times a month. Of course, coaches are available between scheduled sessions to meet needs that may arise.

Prior to the coaching call each week, the client is asked to submit a brief written report highlighting the important issues to be discussed. This allows client and coach to productively spend every minute focusing on what most matters to the client.

The coaching relationship will supply the support and encouragement you need to excel beyond what you thought was possible.

Based on our experiences with other clients, we are confident that coaching will help you to increase your opportunities for advancement to higher levels of leadership. You will grow in your ability to create a positive impact, exert influence, and achieve significant victories on key projects. You’ll gain confidence as a business leader and chart a decisive career path to maximize your potential.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Kashbox Coaching helps organizations create strategic business plans that provide focus, direction, and growth opportunities. The process consists of successive steps from defining vision, to creating goals aligned with that vision, and finally to developing action plans to achieve those goals. We work with you from formulation through execution to help you achieve maximum success and avoid threats to your business.

Our methodology can be executed through a series of meetings or in a retreat format. The outcome of both is the creation of a plan that can be executed by the architects of the plan–you and your leadership team.

Results we’ve seen include:

• Increased earnings.
• Increased commitment to company values.
• Increased capability to attract, service and retain customers.
• Increased synergy among departments or groups as they work toward the achievement of common goals.
• Improved resource allocation.

ASSESSMENTS

Kashbox Coaching administers a variety of assessments designed to support you and your organization in making wise decisions about the development and utilization of your most valuable resource – your people. Below is a description of two of our most popular assessment tools:

360 Degree Feedback

This assessment tool gathers confidential feedback on organizational performance and leadership style from a participant’s subordinates, peers, and managers. When combined with a self-assessment, it produces helpful data for personal and professional growth.

Aggregate reporting of all recipients’ feedback provides valuable data that the organization’s leaders can use to:

• Identify under-utilized strengths so they can be more productively utilized.
• Identify gaps where there are opportunities for improvement.

In addition, the individual participant benefits from:

• Increased awareness of the perceptions of others.
• Increased awareness of competencies and opportunities for growth.

DISC

This widely used assessment tool measures behavioral styles. Awareness of behavioral style facilitates more effective communication, which in turn leads to improved relationships and performance.

DISC breaks observable human behavior into four categories: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. Scientific research indicates that people who act in similar ways have similar characteristics. An awareness of these characteristics improves mutual communication and understanding within the organization.

The results of the DISC assessment can provide valuable information that will enable an organization’s leaders to:

• Better appreciate the various behavioral styles so they can deal with each individual more effectively.
• Improve teamwork through a better understanding of what types of people work best together and an understanding of why some groups do not achieve anticipated results.

In addition, the individual participant benefits from:

• An increased awareness of his or her behavior style and the effect it has on others.
• A greater knowledge about how to effectively communicate with others who have similar or different behavioral styles.