Today's highly competitive business environment demands that individuals and the companies which employ them perform at higher levels and with greater speed than at any time in the past. Rapid responses to the marketplace require continual advances in knowledge within the organization. Organizational leaders and members alike must place a new emphasis on learning and the harnessing of individual and collective creativity. This will require a new type of workplace relationship. Coaching provides both a technology and a process for the new workplace relationship, and is one of the cornerstones for organizational transformation.

The Coaching Clinic effectively develops individuals in the advanced skills necessary for transformational management. During an intensive experiential learning process participants:

• Experience first hand the cutting edge coaching technology now being used in leading domestic and multinational companies
• Discover how to inspire others to believe in their own success, sharpen their focus and make radical shifts to achieve extraordinary results
• Recognize how and when to ask the questions to discover others' deepest values and hidden talents
• Access a powerful structure and process which enable them to begin coaching for winning performance immediately
• Discover their personal coaching style using an inventory which positions them and their employees for rapid development
• Make significant advances in their personal and professional relationships with others

Why coaching? Why now?
The technology of coaching is literally exploding onto the national and international scene. Eager for more effective tools to help them and their organizations move beyond the limitations of other organizational development and process improvement programs, executives and managers are discovering how coaching can expand people's ability to take effective action.
More than a quick fix, coaching embodies a deep, personal learning process which makes it possible for individuals to succeed in areas where they are currently ineffective. Now, more than ever, companies need sustainable high performance if they are to achieve competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

What is the coaching clinic?
The Coaching Clinic is a fully developed, organization-tested model which managers, leaders and coaches can implement immediately in their organizations. It includes:

• A two-day intensive experiential learning program
• Assistance in the development of coaching support processes and feedback loops
• Coaching Clinic follow-up availability for telephone coaching, in-facility shadow coaching and teleconference group coaching for Coaching Clinic participants to reinforce their learning and support them during implementation, and
• Half day coach's conference six weeks following implementation to evaluate results, provide process troubleshooting, and celebrate success

How does the coaching clinic benefit companies?
The Coaching Clinic has been demonstrated to result in major shifts in companies where the model has been implemented. The organization's participants will raise their standards for their own skills and competencies. They will be able to immediately use primary and advanced coaching skills, facilitate coaching conversations, and use their knowledge of communication styles to maximize the effectiveness of workplace communications. Using applicable case scenarios for their unique business, managers will reinforce their skills and benefit from the rich context of information in printed materials and participant interaction. The result will be proficiency in coaching technology and enhanced confidence as organizational leaders.

Who in the organization should participate?
Executives, managers and supervisors, as well as human resource, organizational development and quality improvement professionals and others wanting to learn advanced communication and organizational leadership skills should participate in this powerful program. Mastery of coaching skills is not dependant on previous managerial experience, and managers at all levels of training and experience will find the coaching tools to be powerful and immediately useful.

But is my organization ready for coaching?
Some of the indicators that your company may be ready to become a coaching based organization are:

• You want a system that promotes innovation and accelerates results
• You want to improve the effectiveness of recruitment, development and retention of valuable organizational members
• You want more from present continuous quality improvement programs
• You want a more vital corporate culture
• You want a performance management system that's applicable throughout the organization
• You want to move vision creation and decision making throughout the organization
• You want to improve organizational communication and team effectiveness
• You want to promote shared accountability for the success of the organization