• Leadership behaviours - helping new and future leaders to examine their strengths and development areas
• Presentation courses and coaching - helping individuals to practise presenting something with impact
• Consulting skills coaching with 360 feedback - helping team members of a business performance group to further their consulting skills using 360 feedback from their peers and clients

Coaching

At Virtua we work with clients to achieve specific, work-related goals, as well as gaining understanding and insight into their role within business, and their future progress within the organisation.  Occasionally we may also reflect with our clients on their home life as well as their business life, as it is unusual for one not to affect the other.

We draw out the best thinking from our clients and offer them ownership of their challenges and solutions.  This enables greater learning and allows them to apply their expertise.

The practicalities

The relationship between the coach and coachee is crucial.  We give you the opportunity to meet with your potential coach for an initial 'chemistry' meeting to go through the process with you and to answer questions.  

This will be followed by a kick start meeting with the coachee and may have the manager or sponsor present for part of it.  This enables discussion of the issues, to focus on goals for the coaching and to agree an evaluation process for the objectives.

We can offer clients use of our unique 360º degree feedback tool, enabling the coachee to gain feedback from their peers, manager, suppliers or customers before and after coaching.  If appropriate, Myers Briggs or other psychometric tools may be offered.  

This is followed by on-going coaching sessions.  We typically recommend about six coaching sessions, including kick start.  These are initially spaced at fortnightly intervals to stay goal-focused.

Coaching can be especially helpful for:

• New managers who want help to 'hit the ground running'  - we often find that people moving into management for the first time can find it hard making the transition and need support to help them reflect on how they are going to do this in the best way.

• Managers facing change - sometimes managers can find it hard to implement change, or are asked to change their own behaviour to support a culture change.  We can support the process to enable them to understand the change process and to manage it.

• Managers with performance difficulties, in need of a fresh approach - occasionally a manager may be slipping in their own performance, finding it hard to cope due to personal circumstances, or new objectives.

• Team leaders who want to create a high performance environment - whilst a team building event may sometimes be the preferred approach, a team leader may want help to look at how they can foster a high performing team culture.

To discuss how we can help you or to arrange for an initial meeting please contact us.

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