Is this You?
You need your team to work together, use initiative and get results fast – especially when things are tight BUT…
- You don’t have a big training budget to waste
- You’re sick of people using HR speak… jargon words like “organizational alignment”, “balanced scorecard”, “robust engagement strategy,” “corporate culture” “competency management”, “talent management”, “emotional intelligence,” “work/life balance”, “empowerment”……. I could go on! (Do people in HR and consultancy spout words like this as it makes them look as if they know what they are talking about?) We prefer to talk about things that can be measured – “skills”, “results”, “actions”, “profit,” “share price”, “ROI” and “market share”
- You can’t justify sending people away on courses
- You don’t want to pay for expensive visits from executive coaches
- Every pound, dollar or euro spent has to make an impact
We offer a refreshing solution!
Big Difference Consulting offers a new, refreshing approach to getting your people working together, moving in the right direction. It’s fast and low-cost. And it works just as well for a small business as it does for large blue chip organisations.
What we offer is High Performance Coaching – in person, by phone or using SKYPE. This means:
- It’s available from your own premises at times to suit you – wherever you are in the world!
- You don’t have to send people away from work – so there is no disruption.
- Costs are kept down
We also give you a number of unique FREE EXTRAS:
| FREE unlimited email support FREE learning materials by email FREE online and other learning materials and references FREE participation in regular online webinars |
How We Work
We talk with you first to agree the areas on which coaching will focus for you and your team, and agree overall objectives. (We don’t charge for that.)
In the first one-to-one coaching session, we help each team member identify what they need to get from coaching – their coaching objectives. We conduct six one hour coaching sessions by phone or SKYPE at three week intervals. During each session the team member works on his/her issues and agrees to carry out specific actions before the next session.
Following each session, we send each team member a written confidential summary. We also:
- Email team members FREE learning materials that will help them achieve their goals
- Refer team members to FREE online learning resources
- Recommend other learning references
- Invite team members to take part in FREE online webinars – 30 minute online discussions that focus on particular issues that may be useful for them at work.
In addition we provide FREE unlimited email support. Each team member may email us regarding issues they are working on and will be guaranteed a reply within 48 hours.
Most people enjoy the whole process – they feel inspired, enlightened and motivated to make changes that produce results at work and for themselves.
It’s confidential
What happens in a coaching session is completely confidential. We provide you, the sponsor, with a report at the end of the programme summarising the progress team members have made towards meeting their objectives with recommendations for future development.
What really makes the Big Difference?
Yes, our coaching team are all highly qualified and experienced NLP certified executive coaches. They are also accredited users of personality profiling tools such as MBTI (Myers-Briggs), Firo-B and Belbin. What really makes the difference though is that they have many years of experience in delivering results in a wide range of organisations across the world. This means that they can do much more than just coach. By drawing on their experience of what has worked in other organisations, they can shorten learning time and help people produce dramatic results quicker.
How to boost your team performance even more quickly!
Using short team training bites…. at your premises. Why waste time and money sending people on courses?
Most of our clients have found that supplementing one-to-one coaching with short, intensive, tailored training bites is a good way to turn the team’s performance around even quicker. We find that within a couple of training bites, teams start working together in amazing new ways. Things that may have seemed impossible a few days ago now start happening. People come alive and start applying their brains to driving their departments and your organisation forward.
We deliver each 3 hour tailored training bite for your team at your premises. This is how we work:
| 1. We agree with you to deliver a training bite in an area that is a priority for you and your team. For example:
2. We coach you and your team to move forward on issues that you face. To do this we get commitment from everyone to take action to improve the way they work 3. We provide you and your team with handouts to take away with you and direct you to useful online learning resources and materials |
Our training bites are practical, highly-interactive, fast-moving and challenging. They are tailored to focus on the real problems and issues you and your team face.
And the beauty of them is that they are delivered at your premises, at a time of your choosing. Which means you don’t have to send people away from work, and the costs are kept down.
Good coaching is powerful and produces amazing changes in the way individuals and teams work. Click here to read what CIPD concluded in its survey “Does coaching work?”
Results
The average improvement across all measured criteria was 22.7%. The most dramatic improvements were in Inter-team relationships, Meetings, Innovation, Training and development and Objectives which all scored an improvement of a 33% or over. Procedures and organisation, Information, Leadership, Communications and Relationship with clients all showed considerable improvements of between 20 and 27%, closely followed by Planning at 17.5%. Productivity and Quality also showed improvements, although at a lower level.