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Coaching: A Core Leadership Competency

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization's valuable resources."
- Waldroop and Butler (1996) Harvard Business Review

As a leader of people in industry, business or government, are you frustrated with the overall performance level of your direct reports? You know your direct reports are capable of more, but you are unsure of how to fully tap into their strengths, and how to close the performance gaps that you observe. Intuitively, you know that profits or service could and should be better than they presently are. How can you effectively align that intuition with your style of leadership to maximize the performance of your direct reports?

We have a solution: the opportunity to integrate your intuitive skills with a defined process for coaching. By investing in "Coaching: A Core Leadership Competency" a one day workshop with developmental follow-up, Marathon Human Resources Consulting Group Ltd. will help you develop this vital leadership skill. The return on investment for this one day workshop will make this one of the wiser investments that you, as a leader, will make.

Here is some feedback from participants in previous "Coaching: A Core Leadership Competency" Workshops.

"It gave me a solid foundation and caused me to rethink how I was dealing with my staff."
"Reinforced strategies and a process for improving my ability to coach staff and improve my communication skills."
"Role-playing and case examples were an effective way to put theory into practice."
"Found it all very valuable."

To inquire about hosting a workshop for your organization call Brian Duggan at 902.421.4400 or email brian.duggan@marathonhrcg.com

Presentation Skills Development

Marathon Human Resources Consulting Group Limited offers professional development to assist your leaders, managers and employees to develop personally customized skills to effectively present information to internal teams and corporate client representatives.

This professional consultation can be delivered in a group or one-to-one format and provides concrete and supportive feedback through extensively utilizing video tape and proven methods to assist individuals to hone strong presentation skills.

Your investment in supporting your team in developing Presentation Skills will result in:

  • A greater ability and increased confidence within participants to communicate important information to others
  • An increased ability to sell service delivery capability
  • An increased confidence among Senior Leaders in their Managers' ability to communicate effectively
  • The development of individually appropriate presentation styles, built on natural strengths, which enable flexibility in presentation resources, while staying away from a 'cookie cutter' approach
  • Participants increased knowledge of presentation concepts, approaches, and success factors
  • Identification of and feedback regarding developmental goals which may arise for Managers and a framework for ongoing development to continually improve presentation skills
  • Feedback for Senior Leaders regarding individual's participation and progress of individual Project Managers
  • A clear message from your leaders of the importance of effective presentations to clients, and benchmarks to measure increased presentation effectiveness
Our Approach

Our approach involves knowledge transfer and practice following a logical four step sequence with an emphasis on practice and constructive feedback using video. This approach allows for flexibility regarding work schedules and group make-up. It also provides participants with the opportunity to integrate information and develop a personal presentation style.

Comments from previous Presentation Skill Workshop participants:

"The videotape was a very effective tool to identify areas for improvement. Peer feedback was also extremely helpful in identifying developmental goals. Both of these factors contributed to a new self-awareness that will assist me in focusing on areas of improvement for the future."
"Appreciated focus on strengths as opposed to weaknesses, and coaching on how one can utilize those strengths to improve weaknesses."
"I knew of most of the points raised for my development, but it was reinforcing. The workshop brought out things/body language that I was unaware of."
"The video critique: seeing oneself, as others see you, and reviewing it with the coach was quite useful."

To inquire about investing in Presentation Skills Development for your organization call Brian Duggan at 902.421.4400 or email brian.duggan@marathonhrcg.com