Who We Work With/Overview

Do you want to achieve high performance
without sacrificing employee morale?

Introducing an approach to coaching that helps people
want to perform at their best.

Imaginative Coaching helps leaders and managers go beyond the “command and control” management approach to learn the coaching skills necessary to develop their staff and achieve high performance in a truly meaningful way.

We work with world-class organizations in a wide variety of fields—from large banks and financial institutions to elite sports teams, Hollywood talent agencies and major health organizations. What all our clients have in common, though, is a strong commitment to excellence and they sincerely care about the well-being of their workers.

Are You Facing Any Of These Challenges?

We work closely with each client to custom design a program that fits their needs and is highly relevant for each participant. An Imaginative Coaching program may be right for your organization if:

• You require your managers to coach and develop their staffs, but you haven’t offered them any specific, in-depth training. You know your managers can teach, but you recognize that the “tell-do” approach isn’t always the most effective way to motivate people, transfer knowledge or improve performance. You understand that coaching is different than teaching. It requires a new way of seeing and developing a new set of skills. You want your managers to learn how to coach and become better teachers.
• Your organization is not achieving its performance objectives. You’ve got good people, but they are performing below expectations. Your managers have tried the “more approach”—more pressure, more threats/rewards, more effort—but it hasn’t worked…and now employee morale is suffering as well. You want to understand how to achieve high performance and greater productivity without using high pressure tactics.
• Your employees are under a lot of stress. Morale is down. You’re struggling to keep your best people. People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. You’re achieving your sales goals, but people are burned out. Your employees dread coming to work because of the way business is managed. As a result, you’re losing good people and it’s a good bet that performance problems will arise in the near future. You want your managers to be able to create an environment at work where employees want to learn and perform at their best and are fully engaged in what they do.
• You will soon start a corporate change initiative and you want to ensure its success. Organizations can’t change unless their people do. But thanks to human nature many people would rather things remain the same. You want to create a framework for conducting coaching conversations that encourages employees to “buy in” to necessary change and embrace new ways of doing things.
• You’ve spent a lot of money on training programs but haven’t seen the results. Both common sense and new research tell us that less than 25% of all company-sponsored training translates into improved job performance. Why? Because training alone can’t provide the reinforcement people need to make newly-learned skills second nature to them. You want to maximize your investment in your training programs and help people put their new skills learned into effective action more quickly.

Successful Relationships

Clients are likely to be successful working with us if…

• They are committed to excellence. Our clients show their commitment by constantly seeking ways to improve. They typically work closely together with us to ensure a programs’ success.
• They sincerely care about their employees’ well-being. Our clients know that success cannot be maintained over time when people work in a culture of high stress. They are committed to making their company a great place to work, where employees can be fully engaged in what they do.
• They value learning and creativity. In most organizations it is not safe for people to admit their mistakes or openly talk about problems directly with managers. Our clients are committed to creating a work environment within which learning and creativity are highly valued, and vital, though difficult, issues may be brought to the surface, confronted and then dealt with.

Now that you have a better idea of who we work with, learn more at How We Work.