Coaches
Most managers/executives know their future is dependent on their ability to continue to grow and develop their people, processes, and business acumen. But how?
In an era of rapid turnover, shortening employment affiliations, shifting global markets, mergers, organizational reengineering initiatives, etc. where do today’s managers and executives find any foundation on which to stand to mentor their growth and development?
In past decades one looked to their boss or other senior authority to “learn the ropes” and mitigate their mistakes. In today’s impermanent management pool, and our emerging shortages of experienced and skilled managers and executives, where does that structure and service come from?
Distinctions, Inc. provides an extraordinary group of results-oriented coaches and mentors to fill that gap. Our business coaching compliments DI’s training and consulting programs and services to provide breakthrough individual and team performance, by permanently transforming people, management skills, and work habits.
DI’s coaches use a variety of interviews, assessment tools, and client-site observations to create individualized programs for building and expanding client awareness, attitudes and performance.
In order to produce lasting and substantive change, coaching needs to occur over a period of time, usually for six months to a year. This allows sufficient coaching around a client’s business interactions and situations to provide real shifts in perceptions and the behaviors those perceptions trigger. Over the coaching engagement, in a “partnership” relationship, new understandings emerge to open new possibilities and opportunities for immediate and sustained growth and results.
Why Coaching
In the 90’s coaching engagements began to provide people-centric support for business entrepreneurs and managers facing a bewildering array of changes. The speed of change has been not just accelerating, but the volume of change has also been exploding - more processes, regulations, demands, markets, and business conditions are changing simultaneously. As the speed and volume of business change increases, so too, does the complexity.
Business leaders, executives, managers, and entrepreneurs are all facing business environments never before seen or experienced. The business landscape doesn’t look like it did in MBA case studies. New conditions and demands arise from nowhere, and the landscape doesn’t just change, but transforms. What business managers, executives, and owners face today is historically incomparable. In the unfolding business future the very definition of what constitutes high performance, peak effectiveness, or high productivity will be unrecognizable by today’s standards or today’s definitions.
As an executive or manager of any group of people or processes, who will you need to be to fulfill your responsibilities? What concerns will you be fulfilling? What deliverables will you be responsible for? What accountabilities, responsibilities, or organizational structures and systems, will you need to build and manage? What will be the new standards for integrity by which you will need to operate?
Being an effective manager, a business owner, or an executive, in the next decade will be an extraordinary challenge. You can try to go it alone, or you can find a coach that is dedicated to supporting you and your intended successes. Never before has it been more necessary for enterprise leaders to have that support for themselves.
Types of Coaching
DI provides several types of coaching, each organized around client circumstances and the concerns to be fulfilled. Some coaching engagements will begin as one type and migrate to another. Others will include elements of more than one type.
All coaching is focused on supporting and growing the individual being coached. Given that fundamental focus, we offer the following types of coaching to distinguish how coaching can be used in differing situations.