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Coaching
There has been an explosion of coaching, coaches and related beliefs about coaching. “Everybody needs a coach” is one oft-repeated phrase. “Everyone can coach” is another. Neither is totally accurate.
It is true, however, that coaching can be a powerful tool in the context of an overall plan to achieve organizational excellence. Coaching is most successful when an organization considers and has thoughtful answers to the following questions:
- What do we hope to achieve?
- How will Coaching help achieve our Vision, Values and/or Strategic Plan?
- Who in the organization needs or will benefit from Coaching? Why?
- What qualities, training and certifications should we expect of Coaches?
- If Coaching will be widespread, how do we establish a protocol for matching coaches and coachees?
- How will we measure success?
Some organizations are experienced with the Coaching process and are simply seeking high-quality coaches. Other organizations believe there may be value in Coaching, but do not have an experience base. In either case, Innolect Associates have the expertise and acumen to guide the process.
A number of Innolect Associates have been Coaching for 15 years
more than, have dedicated themselves to Coaching as a primary area
of specialization, and have completed advanced degrees and/or training
in Coaching. As examples:
- Gloria Bader has 15 years of Coaching experience, and she brings to clients a dual expertise in Coaching and Strategic Planning.
- Barbara
Braham is one of Innolect’s leading coaches. She has been coaching
for 15 years and is published on the subject – including her popular
book Be
Your Own Coach.
She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in organizational behavior with
a specialty in Coaching.
- Wilson Bullard founded and trained participants through an intensive Coaches Training Program. He was one of the first consultants to introduce the notion of precision language (Neurolinguistic Programming) into Coaching, and is an avid student and lecturer on the relationship between Coaching and the Learning Organization.
- Rosemary D’Arcy is also one of Innolect’s most active coaches. She has coached an estimated 125 executives and middle managers during her Coaching career.
- Deb Jacobs, Innolect Principal and CEO, is a highly sought after Coach for executive leaders. She has guided numerous leaders through periods of dramatic change in their organizations and lives, and established a track record for helping leaders achieve breakthrough insights that lead to personal and organizational transformation.
- Peter
Norlin has extensive experience coaching senior leaders in corporate,
government and quasi-government settings. Peter has done extensive
work examining the traits inherent in effective leaders, and he
brings this knowledge to his coaching engagements. Please see:
The Inner Life of Leaders
. . . and Collaborative
Team Leadership.
- Margaret Fitch-Hauser has 25 years of coaching experience. As an active researcher and holder of a Ph.D. in Communications, Margaret brings a unique perspective to coaching clients concerned primarily with enhancing communications capabilities.
- Michael
Kahn is a popular and effective coach who offers clients a unique
view of their development opportunities by virtue of his background
in law, education and private counseling.
Strong as these individuals
and other Coaches may be, it is the collective Coaching talent of
Innolect that sets us apart. Clients have particularly benefited
when they began with the idea that Coaching is such an important
endeavor that it needs a plan, a protocol and best practices. We
have often partnered with clients with the goal of setting up a
total coaching system.
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