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• The diversity of the management team, which just cannot pull together

• The colleague you cannot see eye to eye with – and you know it’s impacting on your own performance 

• The senior members of the management team who are technically highly competent, but sadly lacking in the softer skills required to manage people effectively

• The department you’re doing your very best to turn around, and yet they keep letting you down

• The merger or downsizing you’re considering, which could be exactly what your company needs for its future success - or maybe not

• The unexpected turn in the economy which has had a drastic impact on your business and demoralised your people

• The projects or administrative functions that try as you might, you just don’t seem to be able to get down to

• The niggling issue with a difficult client that you just cannot seem to be able to resolve

• The long hours you’re putting in to meet tight deadlines, the resulting impact on your personal life or family – and that’s before you even start to try to find time to fit in any exercise

• Nobody you can really speak to when you need to clarify your thoughts and explore new ideas

You’re young, ambitious, and it’s time to start moving up the corporate ladder.  You’ve been identified for a leadership position and a bright future lies ahead.  You are technically competent, and know you have what it takes to make an excellent leader, and yet …

• How do you make the psychological transition into leadership?

• How do you apply the management skills you’ve learnt about in your training?

• Why would other people look up to you and support you?

• What will make your team highly effective?

• What will make your peers respect and admire you?

Your company is facing significant change.  The leadership is concerned about the effect it will have on the morale, effectiveness and retention of your key people. 

• The downturn in the economy means that you are going to have to lay some people off

• The introduction of new management means leadership styles have changed

• Your business has gone through significant growth, and the relaxed family-style approach now has to change into a more structured entity

• A merger with another organisation or department with a potentially different culture is under consideration

• Old ways of doing things are no longer working, and a new approach is needed

There is one team in the organisation that is lagging behind the rest.  They are fully equipped with the tools they need. They have had skills training, motivational and attitudinal training and undergone several team building interventions.  And yet …

• They cannot relate to one another and take even small things personally

• There is no trust, integrity or even respect between them

• Competitive behaviour is unhealthy and they cannot operate as a consolidated team

• Performance falls short of potential and expectations

Sound familiar?    Probably.  These are just some of the issues facing most companies today.

What if there was a solution to your dilemma?  Not just any solution, but a solution that is far reaching, measureable and best of all, sustainable. 

What difference would it make if, with new consciousness, you are able to think and behave differently in the future? 

How does it feel, as an individual or a team, to know that changes you’re making are your changes, your choices, which you’ve deliberately decided upon now that you have new understandings and perspectives? 

What difference does this make to your life (work and personal) going forward?  Can you see a time and place in the future where things are running so much more smoothly?

In situations like those mentioned above,
Meta-Coaching will make all the difference. 

MetaCo’s Coaches are all qualified, professional Meta-Coaches, who in addition, come from business backgrounds themselves.  They have experienced what you are going through.  They understand the challenges.  Without needing to be experts in content (the specifics of your business), they are experts in process (how the mind works and how to drive measurable change).  They know how to work with you to obtain outstanding, sustainable results.   

Whilst Meta-Coaching interventions are usually highly tailored to both the individual and the organisation, the following interventions form the framework for most Meta-Coaching programmes.

Click here for more information on the Meta-Coaching methodology.

Types of Meta-Coaching

Transformational Meta-Coaching

Transformational Meta-Coaching focuses on revolutionary change; change to an individual or organisation’s purpose, intention, direction and vision. Transformational Meta-Coaching helps the client to make changes that can result in their changing the very direction, meaning and purpose of their lives, business and relationship.

Transformational Meta-Coaching focuses on who you are and how you behave. Whilst certain behaviours may have served you well in the past, it may be that now the time has come for these to be replaced with even more beneficial choices. Clients create their own frameworks during the process of the Meta-Coaching, defined by what they have identified as their goals and the areas in their lives that they wish to change. When a person makes changes at this level, they often experiences the kind of paradigm shift which transforms everything in life – who they are (developmental) and what they do (performance).

It is a tough process, which requires discipline, commitment, courage, the willingness to be placed in uncomfortable situations and often confront fear. Transformational Meta-Coaching is a journey and a process which when embraced fully, results in extraordinary personal growth and expansion.

Typically transformational Meta-Coaching is highly effective for people at executive or senior management levels.

Developmental (Leadership) Meta-Coaching

Developmental Meta-Coaching deals with evolutionary change, therefore shifting the focus from outside to inside, and specifically to the areas of beliefs, understandings, decisions and other mental-emotional frames of mind that govern performance. The focus is first and foremost on developing the person, rather than on behaviours. As a result, the client not only changes what they do (performance), but who they are, or are becoming, developmentally.

Developmental Meta-Coaching is highly effective in the following situations:

• to prepare existing managers and supervisors for more senior positions within the company
• to develop individuals which have been identified with the potential to move into leadership positions
• for individuals such as university graduates entering the workplace for the first time, who wish to develop their leadership skills and attitudes
• for team leaders and supervisors looking to enhance their own personal performance, as well as that of their teams
• within middle management teams to align performance with the intentions of the Executive Committee

Essentially, Developmental Meta-Coaching focuses on self-actualisation, and assists the individual to identify their innate talents and potential, and bring these into the workplace. It prepares the individual for ongoing career development. Where appropriate, it can also initiate a total change.

Performance Meta-Coaching

Performance Meta-Coaching relates first and foremost to incremental changes achieved through modifying and learning new behaviours, skills, actions and results. This is the Meta-Coaching that seeks most directly to take a person’s skills to the next level in terms of quality and quantity of performance. Performance Meta-Coaching focuses externally on what a client does.

People moving into supervisory or management positions for the first time, or seeking to improve their performance within a given context, derive substantial benefit from Performance Meta-Coaching.

Developing a Meta-Coaching Culture Throughout all Levels of the Organisation

Meta-Coaching programmes generally prove to be popular amongst employees as Meta-Coaching achieves a balance between fulfilling organisational goals and objectives whilst taking into account the personal development needs of the individual. It is a two-way relationship with both the organisation and the employee gaining significant benefits.

Workshop-style Meta-Coaching is a highly successful and cost-effective way of introducing a Meta-Coaching culture at all levels of the organisation.  The MindSKILLS Programme works exceptionally well to incentivise employees, reward star performers and engender a culture of personal growth and taking responsibility. See the section on MindSKILLS for further information.

Integrated Training/Meta-Coaching Solutions

Sometimes more than one type of intervention is necessary to produce the best and most sustainable results.

Training is excellent for teaching new skills and attitudes. Employees usually have the very best intentions of fully implementing their new knowledge into the work place at the on their return to the office. To the best of their ability, they do this. Sometimes however they are not sure quite how to integrate their new knowledge into an exisiting situation. At other times, the first time after their return that they encounter a stressful situation, they default back to their old behaviour. Very often, a great deal of what they learnt on training is forgotten or disregarded within the space of a few weeks.

Completing the training intervention with short-term appropriate mentoring and/or Meta-Coaching interventions afterwards ensures that the employees are able to fully integrate their new knowledge into their specific working environments. Mentoring interventions take place in the workplace on a one-to-one “show-do” basis with the mentor and the employee or team. Meta-Coaching interventions on the other hand take place outside the workplace. Through Meta-Coaching the employee or team is able to establish for themselves the best means of sustainably implementing the new knowledge into the workplace environment for the maximum benefit .

With both interventions, new habits and skills are built, and the full benefits of the training are measurable by both employees and employer.
 

For more information on any of the above interventions,
or Corporate Meta-Coaching in general,
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