What Will My Organization Get Out of Coaching?
What Programs/Packages Does Unlocked Box Offer?
What are Unlocked Box's Areas Expertise?
When is a Good Time to Bring in a Coach?

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What Will My Organization Get Out of Coaching?

Unlocked Box will help your organization take its game to the next level by supporting your leadership in forwarding plans, promoting change and innovating. At the same time, coaching will grow your employees, challenging them to ante up all they've got. In short, bring more of what you hired them for to the table.

Here's what adding Unlocked Box coaching to your personnel development efforts can do for your company:

Coaching Reveals the Big Picture

Coaching is not superficial. It is interested in the deeper meaning - issues and ideas that breathe life into the world. Coaching does not simply ask what problem do we need to solve today? But, where do we want to go? What is our vision? The work done in coaching focuses on the big picture and works with specific actions to get there.

Coaching Builds Stronger Teams

Just as individuals have values and dreams, so do organizations and teams. Coaching assists organizations and teams in identifying what's important and in developing shared vision. The results of this process include increased buy-in, improved collaboration and better communication.

Coaching Creates Powerful Players

Coaching helps employees learn who they really are. The result of that knowledge is professionals who act from a place of great strength and commitment, not to mention walk into a meeting and look like they own it.

Coaching Unlocks What's Possible

It is the coach's job to crack through the bull and help people work from possibility rather than circumstances. The most innovative companies operate from this philosophy, and it's what makes things like the iPod happen.

Coaching Shines the Light on What's Really Going On

Curiosity is the bedrock of coaching. What are we doing? What else is possible? What roles are we playing? Where do we pull back? Where do we excel? What are we communicating? What wants to happen? Where are we pretending? What are we choosing? What is our rut? Where are we effortless? What's really in our way? Coaching is a powerful tool for increasing awareness, giving the organization important insights from which to guide growth and change and increase success.

Coaching Lets You Play a Bigger Game

Coaching holds people BIG. It holds them accountable. It challenges them to raise their bar. And if each employee raises their bar, the organization automatically reaches a higher standard of performance.

Coaching is a Playground for Change

Unlocked Box coaching begins with a designed alliance built around trust, it creates an atmosphere perfect for experimenting with new ideas and behavior. If enough employees in an organization participate in a coaching relationship, it can shift the entire dynamic of a company. The results are faster action and growth, a safer environment for risk-taking and perhaps even more fun.

Coaching Kicks Asses

Coaching demands that clients bring something real to the table. Even though coaching relationships can be playful, it's hard work. In fact, coaching works exactly because it fast-forwards learning and action - and it can be a wild ride. Clients have to be willing to metaphorically step off the ledge and find out what's there. They must want to kick themselves into high gear.

Coaching Brings Results

A landmark study commissioned by Right Management Consultants based in Philadelphia found a return-on-investment of dollars spent on executive coaching of nearly 600%. Executives engaged in coaching reported increases in productivity, improvement in relationships with direct reports and colleagues and greater job satisfaction. Bolch, M. (2001). "Proactive Coaching." Training: 58-66.

Research conducted by Metrix Global on coaching in Fortune 500 firms found a 529% return on the investment made in coaching in addition to more intangible benefits. Wilson, C. (2004). "Coaching and coach training in the workplace." Industrial and Commercial Training 36(2/3): 96.

Coaching enables managers to translate personal learning and insight into improved effectiveness, and increases the effectiveness of the links between self-development, management development and organizational effectiveness. Wales, S. (2003). "Why coaching?" Journal of Change Management 3(3): 275.

What Programs/Packages does Unlocked Box Offer?

Unlocked Box will custom design a coaching package to address your organization's specific needs. A coaching package may consist of one-on-one and team coaching, as well as workshops to provide employees with new tools and ways of working.

A conversation to better understand what your organization wants from coaching will precede development of a tailored proposal.

What are Unlocked Box's Areas of Expertise?

Areas of specialty include professional development (leadership/management), creativity enhancement, customer relationship building and vision creation and execution.

When is a Good Time to Bring in a Coach?

Below are common situations where Unlocked Box coaching is ideal:

• There is a gap between where an organization is and where it needs to be.
• The big picture is blurry.
• Creativity and innovation are a top priority.
• Risk-taking is called for and employees need support.
• Leadership skills need to be developed or enhanced.
• Individuals or teams are just plain stuck.
• Difficult conversations need to take place.
• Better communication, truth-telling and listening skills are required.
• The organization is changing and employees need to adapt fast.
• Performance issues need to be addressed.
• Employees are being promoted or taking on new projects and need new skills.
• Teams need increased effectiveness.
• Stronger customer and internal relationships are desired.
• It's time for more meaningful action.