Coaching
Organisations recognise the importance of coaching to develop and enhance the performance of their valued leaders and employees. Many organisations experience significant improvements in individual and team performance as a result of individual coaching outcomes. Having an experienced coach can serve as a sounding board, a reality check, a fresh outside viewpoint, and an advisor as employees and leaders navigate their way through the various challenges and complexities they face. The coaching process is a confidential process between the Coach and Coachee, sponsored by the organisation. The coaching we provide can focus on any of the following:
- Resilience and Wellbeing: to develop resilience and support employee and team wellbeing
- Executive Coaching: to enrich the leadership toolbox and be a sounding board and adviser for current leadership challenges
- First 100 days: to support the successful start to the new role, including the management of any early barriers or challenges faced
- High Potential Coaching: to support growth and development in line with personal and organisation objectives
- Career Strategy: to navigate through their career objectives by exploring skills and motivations and the alignment of these to their career strategy
Career Strategy
During the 20 years we have been supporting individuals and organisations, most individuals do not manage their career and instead are taken on a career journey identified for them by their Manager or their organisation and usually based on their technical skills.
Technical skills, while important, are seldom the only critical parameter for career and leadership success. Social competencies and motivational alignment within the organisation are also important considerations that impact the effectiveness of an individual and leader.
When individuals understand themselves, their behavioural strengths, their motivations and goals, they are able to make strategic career choices rather than reactive or passive decisions about their career.
Over the many years we have worked with Executives and Leaders, we have found it is not uncommon for them to experience a derailing of their career at some point.
Leadership Development
Leaders have been put under the spotlight more than ever before as Australia experiences a once-in-a-generation economic change. Now more than ever is it important to ensure leaders are supported and equipped with the skills to lead in these challenging times.We work with leaders at all stages of their leadership journey from emerging leaders through to executives. We work closely with leaders to take a deep dive into:
- Understanding the role of an impactful leader, leading now and for the future and how this differs to the role of a manager
- Building awareness of who they are as a leader and who they are at their core
- Identifying what motivates them to lead and their leadership purpose
- How their motivations and strengths align or provide barriers to them being the best leader they can be
- Identifying alignment with their organisation’s objectives, culture and purpose
- Developing resilience skills to manage through adversity and deliver on their leadership purpose
- Building leadership skills to focus on developing self-awareness, leading through challenging times, building personal brand and reputation and having difficult conversations and more
Wellbeing and Resilience
Never has it been more important to provide employees and leaders with the skills to practically take care of their wellbeing and the ability to bounce back from adversity both personally and at work. In addition, research shows that investing in the mental health and wellbeing of employees can positively impact employee engagement and business performance.
Core to our wellbeing programs is an understanding that we are all different and therefore what one person needs to improve their wellbeing and resilience may be different to others and unique to them.
Our programs focus on understanding these individual differences in how we respond to challenges and what we need in our environment and from others to feel happy, energised and well. We work with individuals to leverage their natural strengths in responding to challenges and in building a personal wellbeing plan.
We work with leaders to understand these unique differences within their team and how to build a unique plan for supporting their team’s wellbeing.
We offer a variety of wellbeing and resilience solutions, including individual and group solutions for both employees and leaders.
Team Effectiveness
The underlying principle of CMS team effectiveness programmes is that a team is an integrated system. As such, any successful strategy to increase team effectiveness must address the individual in the context of the whole system."In group dynamics the state of any part of the field depends on every other part of the field" – Kurt Lewin 1951 Our integrated team coaching approach links four key elements:
- Individual effectiveness
- Coach facilitated learning
- Team interactions with a focus on driving creative collaborative solutions to real work scenarios
- Team leader coaching to support team change
Our team programmes are focused on raising productivity through developing highly effective team communication leading to:
- More effective interpersonal relationships
- Improved social climate within the team
- Greater self-awareness for individuals around their motivational strengths and how they can best contribute these to the team and organisation.
Recruitment and Succession Planning
We support organisations in identifying the best talent for either vacant roles or key roles in the business as part of a succession planning process.
Identifying the ideal candidate for a role is a complex process, requiring the review of job skills, interpersonal competencies, and alignment with your company culture. In addition, to optimise engagement and employee retention the chosen candidate needs to have motivational alignment with the role.
We will assess internal and external talent using a research-based approach, guiding our clients through the decision-making process.
Following selection of the candidate we can provide onboarding coaching and support for the Manager and new employee to accelerate success within the first 100 days.
Business Partnership
Drawing on experience in working with teams, we have developed a programme specifically for assisting partners in achieving optimum collaboration and therefore effectiveness within their partnership group.
The structure of Partnerships common in business service organisations provide a unique set of issues in managing for maximum effectiveness within the team of Partners and Managers.
“Living systems have integrity. Their character depends on the whole. The same is true for organizations; to understand the most challenging managerial issues requires seeing the whole system that generates the issues.”Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline