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Programmes & Services
Coaching Australia offers a suite of coaching, training and facilitation services, which can be tailored to meet the needs of the organisation and/or individual.
Please feel free to contact us to discuss your individual needs and desired outcomes.
Programmes include:
WORKPLACE COACHING
"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management - to make the most of an organisation's valuable resources" - Harvard Business Review
Coaching is now recognised as the critical platform for successful organisational change and learning initiatives.
Today's
knowledge-driven economy makes it unrealistic for organisations to impart
the necessary
data through directive channels e.g.
instructing, training and consulting, at
the required rate to combat the constantly and rapidly
changing business environment. Coaching provides a structure and instills
accountability in the individual to seek their
own answers to personal peak performance, increasing
the
individual's ability and focus to self-manage.
The trend towards the de-layering of organisations, by reducing the number of management levels, and importance of cross-functional teams, increases the reliance of optimum performance and accountability of each individual. Successful businesses are those that encourage people to be accountable to learning new skills and habits from each other, have strong communication skills and have an environment which supports the cross-pollination of ideas.
Coaching Australia deliver programmes and services specifically designed to create a positive learning culture
Coaching Services provided by Coaching Australia to the Workplace include:
Executive and Performance Coaching - Format
- Coaching sessions run for between 1-˝ hours at a mutually agreed place and time.
- Sessions can be held face-to-face or over the phone, or a combination thereof.
- Additional 24/7 support is included and available by phone/ email.
- A typical coaching programme would be based on 12 x 1.5 hour sessions of coaching.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Coaching is often sought out by already highly successful people, to continue their personal stretch and professional growth. Executives frequently face an agenda-filled environment, where challenges abound around work/ life balance, managing stress, and continuous hurdles around people management and communication. Coaching provides a safe environment to examine personal habits and beliefs, which may benefit from positive shift, and hones leadership and management skills in an ever-changing environment.
Key benefits are:
- Provides accountability
- Provides honest feedback
- Increased self-awareness
- Provides a safe sounding board
- Provides a different perspective
- Reduced stress
- Improved work / life balance
- Improved relationship and communication skills
- Increased leadership or management skills
"I have an increased focus on the real issues and better understand the unique needs of individuals. Coaching has also provided me with a structure that assists with regular planning and continual adjustments as the external environment changes, and greater work/ life balance."
Jeff Knowles, NSW State Manager
"Coaching has assisted me to improve and become more flexible as a communicator and has significantly improved my ability to delegate. My time is spent more productively focused on the strategy, vision and growth of the company. My stress levels have reduced, and I have experienced a positive shift in work/life balance. The direct result is a significant increase in the turnover and growth of the company. Based on my own very positive experience with Lisa, I chose to implement coaching with my management team."
Darren Roberts, General Manager
PERFORMANCE COACHING FOR THE WORKPLACE - Personal and Team Coaching
Coaching is a powerful tool to utilise to enhance professional performance of individuals within an organisation. Focusing on the individual's accountability and responsibility to their own desired outcomes, coaching supports increased levels of performance and increases their ability and understanding of the need to manage their own progress.
A compounding and increasingly significant effect occurs, when coaching is applied across a number of individuals within the organisational structure. When employees are concurrently examining personal and professional development, positive shifts in group dynamics and cultural changes result.
Coaching can be undertaken on an individual or team basis.
Key Benefits are:
- Increased accountability and responsibility of individuals
- Increased efficiency and profitability
- Improved communication skills
- Increased focus
- Increased alignment and loyalty to employer
- Staff retention
- Reduced stress
- Improved team-work
- Positioning as Employer of Choice
"There has been an enormous impact on our bottom line. The staff are more focused, engaged, working more effectively. They're thinking more creatively and providing avenues to group contribution not before thought possible ".
Malcolm Waldo
National Manager, People and Performance, Ambit Recruitment Group"There has been as incredible positive ripple effect throughout - it's amazing!"
Nicole Cunningham, Senior Account Manager
"Lisa helped me set what I saw as an incredibly challenging, almost impossible, monthly performance goal… I achieved that and have continued to achieve that EVERY month!"
"Coaching has GREATLY assisted me to identify and improve my performance, work balance and relationships both in and outside of work."
WORKPLACE COACH TRAINING - Develop advanced Workplace Coaching and Leadership Skills
"58% of senior and mid-level managers have worked for managers with poor coaching skills. 86% of these reported that they wanted to leave as a result" - McKinsey War For Talent Survey
Coaching Australia provides Coach Training Programmes suitable for Leaders wishing to increase their coaching capability, as a powerful addition to their Leadership toolkit. The programme provides participants with the knowledge and skills to fully leverage the most critical asset of the organisation- it's people.
Billions of dollars are now invested by organisations internationally, in the sourcing of external Coaching services. A proven tool in optimising performance, coaching is now seen as a critical leadership competency.
"The Business demand for coaching is nearly doubling each year.. Out of the $80 billion being currently spent on corporate education, FLI Research estimates that $2 billion is spent on executive coaching at senior executive levels in Fortune 500 companies."
Benefits of a Coaching Leadership style and organisational culture include:
- Positive sustainable change
- Supports retention of high performing talent
- Optimises Potential
- Promotes a harmonious culture
- Elicits creativity and innovation from team
- Creates accountability and responsibility in the individual to outcomes
- A positive learning culture
- Promotes open communication
- Supports truly effective Performance management and appraisals
- Skills to define clear goals and action plans with the individual
- Increasing self-awareness of the individual
- Assists the individual identify development needs and personal/ professional hurdles themselves
- Improves focus and motivation
- Creates an inclusive culture
- Increases bottom line
"We have experienced an immediate uplift shift -the successful utilization of the skills having created a fantastic multiplier effect throughout the workplace.".
"For the first time, our people gained clarity on our company’s vision of truly powerful leadership. They learnt the skills to lead in a way that is empowering, elicits creativity, builds trust and harmony, motivates, and generates accountability and a sense of value in the individual and team.".
"Our Management team agreed unanimously that Coaching Australia’s "Leader as Coach" modality, would increase morale, more fully leverage the potential of the individual, increase productivity, and positively influence staff retention.".
Peter Acheson
CEO Ambit (now PeopleBank)
Programmes can be specifically tailored whether the desired outcome is for the Leaders to understand and be able to communicate like a coach, or to be able to operate as a formal coach within the organisation.
The Coaches/ Leaders develop increasingly strong leadership, relationship and communication skills. These are highly practical skills which can be leveraged by the individual constantly. The underlying core themes of accountability, increased self-awareness and improved communication contribute to the occurrence of positive cultural shifts.
Training to be able to operate as a formal coach effectively creates an internal pool of coaches, who have the capacity to formally coach other members of the organisation to achieve their individual goals. With a number of coaches operating, there is scope for numerous goals to be achieved concurrently, and a culture of individual accountability and success permeates throughout. Adopting this strategy has the potential for enormous impact across the organisation, providing a significant and ongoing return on investment.
Return on investment is extremely strong, and can be measured both qualitatively and quantitatively. Measurement methods will be tailored to each individual organisation.
Programmes are provided on both group in-house formats, and as Personalised programme for individual leaders.
For more information regarding our WORKPLACE COACH TRAINING please contact us.
TRAIN AS A PROFESSIONAL COACH
Coaching is an incredibly rewarding and fulfilling career, as you support the personal and professional goal of individuals from any background. It offers great flexibility,as you grow your business to suit your needs and your values- allowing you to be able to, prioritise your life to suit yourself, whilst gaining an incredible sense of contribution as you focus on the fulfilment of others.
Coaching Australia's Coach Training methodology is highly practical- providing skills, knowledge and tools fundamental to any arena e.g. Personal,coaching, Business Coaching, Executive Coaching or Performance Coaching in the Elite sporting arena.
The programme is highly experiential, allowing participants to actively utilise their growing knowledge and skills and allowing them time to embed over the period of the programme. Participants are also provided with Coaching Australia's licensed materials and session and programme structures. This enables the new Coach to actively start coaching with confidence and direction.
See Current Programmes for more information.
PERFORMANCE SUPPORT TO ELITE SPORT
Coaching Australia is a premium provider of
Performance Coaching services and is a Coaching provider of choice to Manly Rugby League
and an accredited provider to the NRL.
Performance coaching is suitable for individual athletes, teams and coaches. The programmes are designed to assist with unlocking the potential of each individual by increasing self-awareness and focusing on the accountability and choices of each athlete to their outcomes. It assists individuals to understand their personal beliefs and habits which may act to interfere with their goals, and provides a structure to overcome these.
A survey conducted by Coaching Australia revealed that 100% of the surveyed athletes, believed that their performance was more dependent on their mental and overall personal well-being, then on their physical conditioning. Interestingly, the majority of funding and focus tends to be on the physicality of the athlete.
Coaching Services provided by Coaching Australia to the Elite Sporting Sector include:
Personal Performance Coaching - available for individual athletes and coaches.
Coaching assists the individual with the setting of goals and action plans. The partnership then supports the individual in unveiling their own personal hurdles to them reaching their potential, followed by a structure that addresses and minimises that specific interference.
Performance = Potential + Attitude - Interference
Areas supported and addressed through coaching can include:
- Confidence Issues
- Communication
- Relationship Issues with coaches, Players or other Club members
- The need to have life handled outside the sporting arena
- Maintaining Focus
- Dealing with Injury
- Future planning beyond the sporting career
Team coaching and Workshops
Individually developed for the needs of the team and includes the following programmes which are utilised and endorsed by Manly Rugby League:
- "Choose to Succeed" - A programme delivered in workshop format that focuses on helping the team and individuals create goals and action plans and understanding the impact of their actions on themselves, their team-mates, their Club and their Code. The key underlying themes revolve around each individual recognising their accountability and responsibility to their outcomes - and that their success, or not, is their choice.
- "The Leadership Choice"- A programme delivered in workshop format designed to have each individual recognise that they are a leader, given that each of them influences the actions of others in the team, whether that be a positive or negative influence. It allows the team to identify the negative leadership behaviours affecting their team, and a confidential forum to address them. Key behaviours that have been successfully shifted through this programme include lack of confidence, issues with coaches, lack of focus, inappropriate partying, poor communication (verbal and body language) with peers, and blaming and arguing within the team. Increased accountability results within each individual and across the team, as all players create goals and action plans, as they personally identify as being necessary for them and their team, to be successful.
Coaches provided by Coaching Australia to the Elite Sporting sector, have commensurate sporting backgrounds. As such, they have personal insight into the hurdles and challenges to peak performance.
Individual and Team Coaching- Format
Individual:
- Coaching sessions run for between 1-˝ hours at a mutually agreed place and time.
- Sessions can be held face-to-face or over the phone, or a combination thereof.
- Additional 24/7 support is included and available by phone/ email.
- A typical coaching programme would be based on 12 hours of coaching.
Team:
- Workshops are specifically designed dependent of the requirements of the Club
Performance Coaching Skills Training for Coaches
These programmes support the development of coaches. They provide an additional skill-set which supports and further embeds the coaching of technical aspects of the specific sport.
They are able to effectively coach for performance at a deeper level, through understanding truly effective ways to communicate that enhance the individuals accountability to their personal and team outcomes.
They will be able to generate increased self-awareness of their players, not only to their own goals, but what actions they need to undertake, and what habits and hurdles they need to overcome to perform at their potential. This model increasingly generates the players ability to self-manage.
The coaches develop increasingly strong leadership, relationship and communication skills. These are highly practical skills which can be leveraged by the individual constantly, and contribute to improved relationships with players and throughout all levels of the organisation.
"Lisa has been universally accepted within our Club, and has drawn praise from every quarter. I would highly recommend Lisa and Coaching Australia to any business or sporting organization looking to develop their people "
Ian Thomson,
CEO, Manly Rugby League - 2002"Lisa opened doors that allowed me to move forward in a number of ways. This has been a powerful programme "
Peter Sharp,
Head Coach, Manly Rugby League - 2002"In our experience here at Manly Sea Eagles, Lisa Wandl and the services of Coaching Australia have assisted us in developing our people and players to be the best they can be. We are a professional organisation and we pride ourselves on being associated with other professional organisations. Well done Lisa and thanks for everything"
Patrick Wilson,
CEO, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Limited - 2005"The Manly Sea Eagles has no hesitation in introducing Lisa Wandl and Coaching Australia.
Lisa Wandl has worked with junior representative players at the Sea Eagles for several seasons and has produced some outstanding results in key performance areas. These include core themes such as accountability and responsibility, overcoming alienation, confidence and self-esteem and dealing with pressure.
I recommend to any sporting organisation eager to improve awareness of responsibility levels to the individual, club and the community that they consider Coaching Australia's excellent programme. I am available at all times for a personal recommendation."
Des Hasler,
Head Coach, Manly Sea Eagles - 2005