Business and Life Coaching

Content in brief:

1. How balanced is your professional life?
2. Why work with a Coach?
3. How do I find the right coach?
4. How does coaching work?
5. Is the coaching confidential?
6. Team assessment and facilitation
7. Are you tired of training that just doesn't work?
8. Follow up Coaching for Key Leaders and Teams
9. Retreats?
10. Personal Profiles
11. Discovering Your Personal Blocks Test
12. Interested?

How balanced is your professional life?

Could you benefit from coaching? Take this quick test to find out! Within each of the following eight areas, chose the number that best represents your level of satisfaction in that area of your life ("7" = Completely satisfied; "1" = Completely dissatisfied):

Now, imagine the numbers you chose connecting to form a wheel. The rounder the wheel, the more balanced your life. Imagine how your car would travel if the wheels were in this shape! Are you content with the balance? If not, we can help. We work with individuals who desire growth, success, and balance in their lives. Print this page if you would like to do this test on paper.

Why work with a Coach?

Professionals use coaching to:

• Clarify vision
• Achieve goals
• Maximizing success
• Live a more fulfilling life

How do I find the right coach?

Coaching is a dynamic relationship. The professional sets the direction and the content. The coach provides focus, accountability and coaching expertise. The results are powerful. You can pick from our main group of coaches by reading their bios and requesting an appointment, or you may contact us and we will match you with the best coach. We encourage you to experience coaching first hand by contacting us for a 30 minute complimentary coaching session.

How does coaching work?

You and your coach set up a schedule to meet either in person or over the phone. Coaching sessions are generally 30 minutes to two hours, every one to two weeks. We urge our clients to set a schedule that works best for them. Coaching length is determined by each client, but we find that executives who sustain motivation and success develop long term coaching relationships.

Is the coaching confidential?

Our services are 100% confidential. This allows you to explore issues and ideas with complete protection and freedom.

Team assessment and facilitation

Team functioning depends on striving for mutual goals with clearly articulated roles and open communication. ACT can coach your team to peak performance through several services.

• Assessment – We can assess the roles, tendencies and potential needs for existing team members and the team as a whole. How well does your team represent your brand?
• Building a Team – Through assessments, interviews and facilitation we can help you build a process for profiling and interviewing potential team members and avoid the costly mistake of adding the wrong people to your team
• Facilitation – We can work with your team to make meetings more productive, work through conflict or simply go to the next level.
• Team Coaching – All teams have challenges. We can help coach your team to build greater trust, alignment, cooperation and excellence.
• Team Building Retreats – For those wanting a unique experience we can do creative and impactful team retreats.

Corporate Services

Are you tired of training that just doesn't work??

Companies spend over $375 billion every year on corporate training. However, the typical training experience has been shown to increase employee productivity only by 20-25%, but when you combine customized training and corporate coaching together employee productivity explodes past 80%!

We believe that businesses flourish when everyone involved performs at their peak. By combining cutting-edge training strategies with the best of corporate coaching, we can help train your employees to quickly reach peak performance. What would your company do with the money you saved when your key employees' productivity increased by 80% or more?

Advantage Coaching & Training analyzes best business practices and interacting personalities to create custom interventions aimed at helping your employees experience rapid growth and effectiveness.

Benefits from our training include:

• Improved productivity
• Better communication
• Less conflict
• Better teamwork
• Decreased stress
• Positive morale

We customize our workshops to fit your needs and your culture.

We offer various courses that would be appropriate for Home Office Professionals. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Building Loyalty
• Conflict Management
• Coaching Skills for Managers
• Confidence
• Leadership
• Dealing with Change and Transition
• Presentation Skills
• Effective Teams
• DiSC® Assessment and Use in Sales
• Time Management
• Coaching Skills for Recruiting
• Life Balance

All workshops could be tailored from 2 – 6 hours in length.

Follow up Coaching for Key Leaders and Teams

Coaching is the art of enhancing productivity by helping individuals defeat personal obstacles to peak performance. Adding coaching to training ensures greater follow-through, implementation and results.

Retreats?

One and two day experiential, high-impact retreats can be planned for companies that truly want to recharge their workers and give them a positive team building experience.

Personal Profiles

Through profile administration and feedback, individuals can learn how to enhance strengths, overcome weaknesses, and relate better to others. We utilize instruments that provide insight and strategic input on many areas of performance including:

• organizational skills
• personality styles
• diversity awareness
• leadership styles
• stress management
• listening skills

All instruments are self-contained, easy to understand, and cost-effective to utilize. Most can be used for 360 degree feedback if desired. Contact us for more information on how to effectively use these in your organization.

Discovering Your Personal Blocks Test

Have you worked through these common blocks to achieving your full potential? On a scale of 1-7 with "7" being the highest, rate yourself on how much you struggle with each of these issues:

Total:

If your total score is over 32 or any one score is over 3, you may be inhibited from achieving your maximum level of success.

We specialize in working with your core issues in a way that brings out your strengths and helps you to perform at your best. Using a positive approach, we focus on target performance and strategic actions to produce change that leaves people feeling capable and good about themselves.

Interested?

To find out more about how our coaching can assist you and to set up a complimentary coaching session, contact us.

Testimonials

Carole Cowperthwaite-O'Hagan is an incredibly energetic coach who will help you reach your full potential. Using her professional questioning techniques, she will help you uncover the underlying issues that impede your success.

She does not give you the answers. Instead she assists and guides you to find the answers yourself, holding you accountable each step of the way. I have come to trust her implicitly, knowing that our discussions are kept in strict confidence. Carole will help you reach your professional and personal goals!

Sr. Vice-President
Trustmark Insurance Company

I have worked with ACT for the past several years and have learned skills, and have been introduced to using tools that have completely changed my approach to both my professional and personal life.

I would highly encourage anyone to learn the techniques of coaching and to go through the programs that ACT offers, the impact and learnings are invaluable.

Vice President
Van Kampen

I have been working with Dr. Tim for roughly a year now. I came into our relationship having a professional background in sales and in the management of sales people.

Working with Tim has been a broadening and rewarding experience for me both personally and professionally. I have worked with him specifically to improve my coaching. As I have become a better coach, I have found that I now manage relationships better and have become more accountable and effective in areas that I deem important. I have also enhanced my leadership skills as a result. I have a great amount of professional respect and personal regard for Tim. Our relationship has meant a great deal to me.

Productivity Manager
Wachovia Securities