Coaching Following Training

Have you ever gone to a motivational seminar? Have you ever been on a training course? Do you remember how excited and pumped up you felt coming away from the seminar or the course, knowing how beneficial the knowledge was that you just acquired? What did you do with it once you got back to the office or back home? How many people did you share some of those pearls of wisdom with? How many of those pearls did you apply into your daily routine? How has your life changed thanks to the seminar or the course? I'll bet it's more like … how long did it take for all you learned to just fly out the window, despite how well-intentioned you were to implement what you had learned into your life. With a Success Coach you will stay focused on and be accountable for those changes you truly want to make.

Here are some staggering statistics:
(Action research conducted by G. Olivero, K.D. Bane & R.E. Kopelman in 1997)

31 managers were trained and the training was followed up by 8 weeks of one-on-one executive coaching. The results of the research were that:

• training alone increased productivity by 22.4%
• with follow-up coaching productivity increased by 88%

"As I walked up the stairs towards the microphone to speak, I was thinking back to the first day you and I had spoken, Lynne. You had asked me to close my eyes and go forward one year in time. You asked what I saw. I was speaking in front of hundreds of people, and as I was speaking they were listening intently, with tears in their eyes. And that's exactly what happened -- for real. The audience was hanging on my every word. I knew I had captured their hearts. I realized this was "that very moment." It gave me strength to speak with everything I had, applying all of the skills I've learned -- all woven together into this 4-minute speech. What an empowering feeling -- going from fear to freedom!" Lisa — September ‘05