Oyster Coaching

“Changing behaviour, what we do or say and how we do or say it, is the most important challenge for businesses trying to compete in a turbulent world. "The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behaviour of people."
 

Traditionally the preserve of senior executives in large corporations, allowing them to gain serious competitive advantage, the benefits of coaching for private individuals or for key contributors and high performers in organisations has rapidly gained popularity because it consistently produces measurable return on investment. 

What is Coaching?

Business Leader Coaching

Career Coaching

Life Coaching

Organisation Behaviour Coaching

 

What is Coaching?

Coaching is a forward looking, future facing process that equips you to find the direction, the focus, the confidence and the ability to produce extraordinary results in their lives, their careers, their employer organisations or their own businesses. As many successful people have found, with the help of a professional coach, these results can be produced more quickly and more efficiently.

Coaching is about eliciting the very best from you; it’s about encouraging, motivating and inspiring you to implement suitable life programmes to help you succeed in your quest for personal excellence. In one-to-one sessions you and your coach will:

• - Crystallise your definition of success
• - Explore and expand your expectations
• - Ensure you take control, become proactive and set your own life plan
• - Explore your self-limiting beliefs and discard those that no longer serve you
• - Clarify your development opportunities
• - Engage in providing balanced and objective perspectives to push you past your current plateau
• - Mentally rehearse your success through visualisation
• - Hold you accountable when your actions and ambitions do not coincide
• - Move you from goal setting and planning to action and success 

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Business Leader Coaching

Study after study shows that in the long term, business with great leadership practices consistently out-perform the competition. Study after study shows that coaching is an effective and powerful tool for accelerating leadership performance. Regardless o the size or stage of development of your business, large and small, start-up or established, Business Leader Coaching consistently produces measurable return on investment. Business Leader Coaching can provide significant returns when:

• - You’re faced with problems and you want a fresh perspective on how to deal with them
• - You're faced with new opportunity and want a different perspectiveon how to deal with it
• - You want to challenge your thinking, to ensure you’re focusing on the right things and making the right strategic moves
• - A new role requires skills that you have not needed to exploit in the past and wish to develop these skills rapidly
• - You are aware that changes in behaviour would benefit the long-term success and growth of the organisation
• - You want to be proactive in evaluation and addressing your behavioural patterns:
•       how they are aligned with the goals of the organisation
•       how they contribute towards the achievement of these goals
•       how they affect your decision-making
• - You want honest, unbiased, totally objective and reliable developmental feedback, positive or negative
•       you recognise that an outside perspective might benefit you as a leader
•       your avice givers are usually direct reports, and feedback is less frequent and less reliable
• - You believe you’ve hit a plateau in your leadership and interpersonal skills and want to push through to the next level 
• - You are a start-up organisation and need ongoing clarity, motivation, support and inspiration

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Career Coaching

Just as organisations can take advantage of coaching to align executive behaviours with strategy, so too can an individual avail of coaching to enhance the development of the most advantageous behavioural traits and competencies to allow optimal positioning for career advancement. With a third of a persons time spent in the work environment, being happy and fulfilled in a career is hugely important. The Career Coaching process focuses the client on taking the necessary actions to realise their career goals and ambitions, and achieving fulfillment through the alignment of career with passions, talents and core values.

Whether this involves upgrading an existing career, making a career change or achieving a better balance between work life and personal life, career coaching can help you prepare the roadmap and encourage you to follow it to achieve your goals. Career Coaching is beneficial when:

• - You want to explore new career options and implement plans to achieve them
• - You need help with putting together a CV or resume and need to develop good interview techniques
• - You're re-entering the work force
• - Your career is not advancing as you perceive it should and you want to advance within your chosen profession
• - You want to explore ways to build important working relationships and a strong network to help you get ahead
• - You recognise a need to upgrade your skill-set and increase your productivity in order to climb the career ladder faster
• - You believe you are not receiving proper recognition, monetary rewards, and compensation for your hard work and effort
• - Your skills in management of office politics need honing
• - You're managing being downsized or laid off
• - You’re beining to feel burnout and need to create a healthy balance between work and life is necessary
• - You need a sounding board to talk out ideas and brainstorm with without risk

Read our Blog entry on Career Coaching

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Life Coaching

The purpose of Life Coaching is to support individuals in achieving significant, sustainable, life enhancing change leading to more fulfilment, balance and success in their personal lives. Coaching empowers a person to clarify their life vision, establish related goals and implement the plan to achieve these goals, while encouraging them to take control of their future.

Coaching encourages individuals to challenge their behaviours, thinking patterns and beliefs. It inspires and motivates them to push beyond their comfort zone, to reach new levels of achievement, performance, fulfilment and happiness and reintroduce balance to their lives.  

Coaching can help when:

• - There is a gap between the life you are living and the life you want to live, and you want to eliminate this gap
• - You just know "there's more to life than this" but you don't know where to start to make things better
• - You want unbiased, confidential support in determining how to act in order to reach your goals 
• - You wish to assess your core values and align your goals to these values
• - You are prepared to evaluate your belief systems and consider whether they serve or to restrict you 
• - You need to solve a problems or gain fresh non-judgemental perspectives on your issues 
• - You want to enhance existing skills, learn and develop new skills and improve your motivation and self-confidence 
• - Gain insight into yourself and the people you work and live with
• - You want to shorten the time to achieving your goals

Contact Us to discuss how Oyster can help with your Life Coaching needs

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Organisation Behaviour Coaching

Oyster specialises in coaching to align behaviours with organisational strategy. Businesses of all sizes now create human capital advantage by proactively defining and developing the behavioural competencies required to achieve the organisations desired goals and outcomes, then coaching to align the habits and practices of persons with leadership and management responsibilities with these desired competencies. When behaviours and competencies align with strategy extraordinary, advantageous momentum is unleashed and highly beneficial outcomes result.

Organisations also gain advantage from coaching for bench strength development. Selecting and nurturing key contributors and high performers is vital for a company’s longevity. But without proper competency identification, gap analysis and elimination, even the most promising careers can be derailed with costly consequences for both the executive and the organisation. Every organisation has known great performers who when promoted seem to loose their edge. It’s a simple fact that strengths valuable at one level of the organisation can become liabilities at another higher level. Coaching facilitates the unlearning of old habits and replacement with new more appropriate behavioural styles, avoiding the disruptive consequences of derailment.

For organisations, coaching is personally customised “on-the-job” education, capable of minimising the down time of off site training. While all coaching engagements are customised to fit the needs of each coachee, Oyster coaching engagements generally contain some or all of the following elements:

 

1. With the client, identify the initial goals of the coaching engagement
2. Agree the success criteria, the measurements and the measurement methodology
3. Meet the coachee(s) and set ground rules
4. Carry out research and assessment
   a. Surveys
   b. 360° feedback
   c. Interviewing
   d. Psychometric Testing
   e. Shadowing
   f.  Past Performance
    
5. Refine the goals, success criteria, measurements and measurement methodology for the coaching engagement
6. Co-design the coaching programme
7. Establish review points and evaluations
8. Obtain client sign-off
9. Engage with coachee and commence coaching
10. Review and measure as agreed
    a. Repeat surveys
    b. Repeat 360° feedback
    c. Repeat Interviews
    d. Repeat appropriate Psychometric Testing
    e. Other measurements as agreed
     

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