ORGANISATIONS

How can I help your organisation?

There are many ways in which a Life Coach can be used by your organisation. These range from simply advertising the service to your people, to part or even full subsidisation of the service.

Whatever the individuals situation and circumstances your employees will thank you for making the skills of a Life Coach available to them. Your organisation will in turn reap the benefits of being staffed by increasingly self responsible, motivated and balanced individuals whose outside lives do not drag your organisation down and whose personal goals are in tune with your organisational goals.

Below you will see described just some of the potential applications of Life Coaching within your organisation. To discuss further how a Life Coach could help your organisation please contact Peter using any of the details provided.

Attracting New People

In this day and age quality recruits tend not just to look for any available opening but shop around for the best packages available to them.

Which organisation will provide them with the greatest all round benefit to their life?

Salary is often a major factor but it is also well known that things such as working conditions and benefits play a major part in both recruitment and subsequent retention. Actively promoting the availability, whether fully or partially subsidised, of a Life Coach can boost the attractiveness of any recruitment package showing a serious commitment to potential new recruits and their all round development, success and happiness.

New Recruits - Harnessing Enthusiasm and Mitigating Change

Whenever anyone begins work in a new environment and/or a new organisation it brings change into their life and a period of adjustment that in turn affects all other aspects of their life. These effects can be both positive and negative.

On the positive side of the coin new recruits are often highly enthused and the excitement of new horizons, new learning and development, can also spread over into their lives outside the organisation. However it is often the case that this enthusiasm slowly seeps away often with negative reinforcement from those already out the other side of the 'honeymoon' period.

On the negative side of the coin new recruits changed working circumstances can often be in conflict with their outside lives. Whether it be their home life, social life or any other aspect of their life it can find itself strained by changed working circumstances. Over a period of time a transition will inevitably be made but this transition period can often be one of conflict compromising the effectiveness of your new recruit both in and out of their working life.

Harnessing and maintaining the enthusiasm of new recruits as well as making the transition of their lives to include working for your organisation as smooth as possible can only be of benefit to everyone concerned.

It is your responsibility to provide all the necessary technical training that their role within your organisation requires but who will keep them motivated to such ends, who will care for their life in all its roles both in and out of your organisation. Most attempts at these sorts of things are seen, often rightfully, by new recruits as disguised attempts at extracting from them what the employer wants from them rather than being truly sincere.

An independent Life Coach however will work with them as a client in their own right helping them address issues, form goals and keep on keeping on in all aspects of their life.

An independent Life Coach will help your new recruit deal with any outside issues in their lives that may be affecting their training and will help nurture that excitable enthusiasm that new recruits have for their personal development when they first come on board. By giving them ownership of these goals their aspirations will be protected from any more jaded members of your organisation, all you have to do is provide the opportunities.

Retention and Performance

Once the honeymoon period of a new position has run its course it is often the case that peoples productivity falls and a period of disillusionment can sometimes begin. So how can the initial enthusiasm people have as new recruits be rekindled?

Often there are still developmental opportunities for this person within the organisation but their pursuit can sometimes be seen as something out of reach or as something that only benefits the organisation rather than themselves.

During this period a course of Life Coaching can help such individuals to define new goals within their working lives as well as in their outside lives. Successfully pursuing these goals will see them more contented in and out of work invariably making them more productive individuals all round.

As long as the opportunities are there for people to chase, with independent support from a qualified Life Coach, individuals will successfully pursue them.

Nothing helps retain motivation in peoples working lives better than success in the pursuit of goals for which they have genuine personal ownership.

This success and maintained motivation will in turn help you in both retaining individuals as effective members of the team and ultimately in greater success in achieving your organisations central goals.

Removing 'Dead Wood'

Every organisation sometimes has people within it who quite frankly no longer wish to be there or whose outside lives are seeing difficult times that in turn affect their working lives. These individuals often feel trapped and become embittered as well as less productive employees.

At the same time as their own productivity waning these individuals often negatively affect that of all with whom they work, spreading disillusionment and further reducing the productivity of the organisation.

In the event that standard attempts to re-motivate the individual fail they often find themselves being passed over or in the worst cases facing disciplinary proceedings. This all to familiar situation often leads to further embitterment, wastes everybody's time and energy and ultimately leads to no further recovery of effectiveness.

What if instead, these individuals were given access to independent Life Coaching that was there for them to help them get their lives back on track.

Effective Life Coaching will see one of two results:

1. The client becomes re-motivated in the pursuit of their current career. This situation is obviously a win for both the organisation and the individual.

2. The individual is motivated to pursue alternative directions with their career and working life. If this person really does not want to be working within your organisation then nobody is really gaining from their continued presence within the organisation. An independent Life Coach will assist such individuals in the pursuit of the life they would rather be living. During this transition your sponsoring support will act to temper their previous or potential negative influence upon the workings of your organisation. In turn they will be more content with their new life and you will have freed room for new and more motivated blood to take their position leading your organisation forwards with the enthusiasm you would truly want. Again everybody wins.