Frequently Asked Questions

 What Services does Integrated Focus provide?

Executive and Leadership Coaching Services

• Leadership and Executive Coaching
• Shadow Coaching
• Team Coaching 
• Improved Team Cohesiveness
• Group Facilitation 
• Career Management and Transition
• Organizational Change Workshops

Assessments

• Birkman Coaching Report
• Lominger Voices: 360 Assessment 

• Career Development and Career Choice
• Career Anchors
• Call Reluctance
• Networking Skills

Coaching Workshops and Training

• Personal Branding and Visibility Management
• Leadership Presence and Communication Skills
• Ways to Communicate with Difficult People
• Overcoming Call Reluctance and Developing High Performance Sales Team
• Generations in the Workplace – Extend the Meaning of Diversity
• Career Accountability Plan

What is Executive and Leadership coaching?

• A collaborative relationship that enables leaders and professionals to reach their potential, leverage their strengths, expand their leadership skills, and achieve business goals
• A designed alliance built upon trust, support, commitment and accountability that elicits client generated solutions and strategies
• A client designed Coaching Plan with SMART goals: both business results and interpersonal skills

What are the benefits of Coaching?

• Leverages a person’s strengths and their effectiveness and value to their company
• Connects outcomes of the coaching to business goals and organizational objectives
• Uses Assessments to increase client’s understanding of their strengths and their developmental areas
• Supports management skill development of newly promoted managers and leaders
• Provides a process for self development, supports company training leading to higher employee retention and increased productivity
• Improves critical leadership skills: succession planning, motivating teams, conflict management, leading with vision and purpose, delegation, and effective communication skills
• Supports a balance between work and life reducing stress

What is the ROI of Coaching?

• HR Monthly says “Studies show business coaching and executive coaching are the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual and in teams.”  Training followed by coaching improves the retention rate: “recall after 3 weeks is 85%” and after 3 months is 65%.
• Measured by business results, such as increased sales, improved performance, project completion, better customer relationships, improved employee morale and retention
• Clients experience improved productivity, decision making, creative problem solving and more effective interpersonal skills
• Coaching values constructive actions and encourages “change management” and organizational effectiveness
• Supports the use of 360 Leadership, individual, and team Assessments

Why does coaching support individuals and organizations?

• Business has always been bottom line driven, but now it is more impersonal, competitive and demanding
• Conflicting agendas, difficult assignments, and changing expectations are the norm
• The pace has accelerated; it is now fast, global, 24/7
• Managers are so busy reading email and keeping their heads above water, there is no time to manage, advise, motivate and train (Fortune Magazine)
• Companies value results driven people who must collaborate and lead geographically dispersed teams (Primal Leadership, pp. 36-38)
• The traditional employment contract has changed -downsizing, restructuring, mergers, and other organizational changes - companies can no longer achieve results using traditional management approaches