What is the cost to your organisation when key employees perform at anything less than 100%?
The effects of underperformance by key people can’t be disguised, which is why building in safeguards to embed consistently high performance is prudent. When people experience:
Lack of clarity on business objectives and priorities
Teams apparently pulling in different directions
Communication difficulties
Mental blocks with regard to decision making
Conflict
Power Hours could be the answer. Power Hours are an innovative, flexible coaching solution, providing high quality, confidential support for key personnel. Each Power Hour is a short focused session, when and where you need it. It allows you and your key people to put problems into perspective and to generate solutions to pressing issues.
Power Hours provide space for reflection. Issues are analysed and clarified, options explored, and the most appropriate courses of action identified. Concerns are discussed in confidence with an independent person uninfluenced by the corporate climate - someone who listens without judgement; challenges assumptions; and acts as an impartial sounding board. This enables a focused response to opportunities and problems. Individuals leave sessions focused and reenergised, with a level of clarity that had previously eluded them.
Power Hours help key employees work to their full potential. Experience of the process builds their ability to think more creatively and powerfully in future.
Power Hour coaching is an on-demand facility, supporting people with limited time and demanding schedules. Individually tailored to meet the needs of your people, the Power Hour offering is customised to work smoothly within your organisation’s culture. Sessions typically last 60 – 75 minutes, with additional follow-up support by phone, fax or email. Our ‘clinic’ service on your premises allows us to see up to five people a day.
By eradicating disruptive mental barriers to performance, we help you get the best out of people who constantly work at high capacity.
To discuss the possibilities please contact Olivia Graham.
What Clients Say
“First of all let me say great thanks for yesterday's session. It was very helpful and inspired.”
“Olivia’s coaching helped me see my way through a very tricky business performance issue. Her insistence on clarifying what I wanted to achieve meant that I ended up with four key goals for a difficult meeting – and achieved them all.”
"This session was really timely for me and I got a huge amount out of it.Olivia has sent me further useful information since and although I don't know what the cost is, it seems to me this is great value for money as you get so much out of a really concentrated one to one session".
". . . Olivia's approach to the session has helped me already to step back and review how I can work better, and to manage a difficult work situation much better for my staff and myself"
"Thank you so much for your help in the session, I really felt like it helped a great deal and made my options a lot clearer."
"Thanks so much for your encouragement (boot in the backside, what ever way you look at it), it worked"
“Olivia’s style with me was a very light touch. She let me do all the talking and only contributed when explicitly asked or if she felt a gentle nudge would be helpful. She was very good at the silent treatment waiting for me to say something.The result of the hour was several pages of notes I took for myself. All of the notes are valuable and relevant”.
". . . I can't begin to tell you how immensely grateful I am to you - yesterday's conversation left me totally drained emotionally and also incredibly empowered!I felt emptied and re-filled at the same time! Since things have moved into place so quickly, and since I feel very comfortable and confident with the strategy outlined above, the 'objective' is in sight as it were, and as we said yesterday it would be great if I could call on you for the odd 'Power Hour'.”
“I discussed my personal concerns and issues with Olivia in far more depth than I would have been comfortable discussing with either a line manager (no disrespect to my current line manager) or a permanent staff member. Olivia was able to ask really deep questions to make me consider options outside my previous thinking and showed me a couple of models that I haven't seen before.Olivia showed a real interest in me with no 'company' agenda and after an hour session I have a number of specific actions which I intend to carry out over the next few months.”
“I found our session very helpful in terms of the influencing skills.I have already started the 'coaching' approach with my reportees, managers and with my wife as well. It seems to be working well.”
