coaching

Coaching is now recognised as a key tool for leaders who want to get the most out of their staff. It is about helping people to realise their potential and maximise their own performance by building on what they already know. The role of a coach is to help people understand themselves, set their own goals and discover from their own experiences how improved performance is possible for them.

We design managerial coaching programmes that enable course participants to develop their practical coaching skills through participating in active projects, applying theory, taking part in facilitated reviews and giving and receiving feedback. Coaching skills programmes at Log Heights are individually designed to ensure integration of relevant business knowledge and practices and maximise the transfer of learning.

Coaching Skills programmes enable participants to:

• Develop key coaching skills - listening, empathising, questioning, giving and receiving feedback, reflecting, challenging
• Understand coaching styles and theories
• Practice coaching by taking part in practical projects and coaching reviews
• Develop the effectiveness of their team members through effective coaching
• Plan their own development as a coach

Professional Coaching by External Coaches:

We are increasingly providing professional coaches to ensure that the learning from our training programmes is fully transferred and embedded in the work place. According to a study by the International Personnel Management Association:

"Ordinary training typically increased productivity by 22% while training combined with coaching increased productivity by 88%." Sunday Times
 7 Jan 2001

Having external professional coaching helps learners overcome the barriers that prevent learning being fully implemented, such as limiting beliefs, lack of confidence, lack of support, and challenging relationships.

Our professional coaches also provide coaching as a development tool in its own right. It is particularly effective in developing leaders and supporting major change initiatives. Recent projects include face to face coaching two days a week for twelve months supporting a multi-national company to successfully implement a new lean manufacturing system.

We regularly run Open Coaching Programmes for managers interested in maximising staff performance.