“I hired a coach when I was appointed to lead a new business sector and achieve aggressive revenue goals. As a direct result of the help I was given, our group closed the year achieving 120% performance.” – Market Segment VP, Fortune 500 Commercial Printing Company

CEOs rank an organization’s ability to develop strong leaders as a top five factor for sustaining competitive advantage.

Every sports fan is aware of the effectiveness of the right coach. In the meantime Coaching has also become a personnel tool in companies by which they want to show their best people their esteem and recognition and by which they wish to support their management staff to achieve optimum results. Business coaching helps executives improve bottom-line results quickly and effectively. It can support broad organizational transitions, such as restructurings or mergers, as well as the on-going transitions of people into, within, and leaving an organization. Some organizations engage business coaches to support individual managers stepping up to a new role, or new entrants into the organization; others use business coaching within teams, to enhance collective effectiveness, management and decision-making processes. Specific business challenges where coaching can help include:

• Developing talented individuals for succession-planning purposes

• Taking on a new role within the organization

• Achieving cohesion within critical teams, especially in times of leadership change

• Onboarding a new employee for faster time-to-competency

• Helping business leaders cope with the extraordinary pressure of leading organizational change

Making a Difference to Performance
Business coaching involves a rigorous assessment of the organization’s environment and business challenges. Facilitated by the executive coach, clients assess themselves relative to the business situation, define their goals, and build the skills and competencies necessary for success. They plan, implement, and receive feedback on performance, and create connections with influential individuals. The steps taken within this framework will vary. For example, a new COO aiming to deliver substantial cost savings through restructuring an organization’s supply chain will have very different needs, goals, means and metrics from an individual who is leaving an organization where she has worked for the past 20 years to seek new employment.

Coaching Experience
DBM delivers business coaching to individuals and organizations across all industries worldwide. We have the largest global network of coaches, and handle organization-wide coaching assignments across multiple geographies. In the past three years, we have coached executives in 350 organizations. 80% of our work has been with senior managers. DBM coaches all have between five and ten years senior corporate experience, and multiple certifications in performance assessment and executive coaching. DBM conducts ongoing research into coaching methodologies and the effectiveness of specific coaching techniques, as well as into industry trends and the leadership challenges facing specific kinds of organization.

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