When our directors Arjen, Scott and Paul were doing some work on what their legacy for Involvement might look, they were all tasked to write down three things. All of them wrote something around ‘making people better’ or ‘wanting to develop colleagues more’.
This realisation led to a flurry of activity connected to the belief in one of our core values – Performance. A bold new plan was drawn up. We set ourselves the challenge that everybody within Involvement would be given the opportunity to have performance coaching.
The capacity would be built for this coaching to be delivered internally, with members of the Involvement team trained as coaches to provide it, through the company’s new Coaching Academy rather than by helicoptering in external consultants to deliver the programme.
There was a realisation that the company needed to develop the skills of Involvement coaches, not just those of the coachees. To that end coaching tools were brought together in a powerful new resource called Making People Better: A Coaching Handbook.
The starting point for most on the coaching journey begins with an ‘A-Game’. The A-Game is a personal ethos, a top line statement with these killer words underneath that say ‘In order to accomplish this, I must’… And then it has three or four things that I’ve got to deliver to make that happen.
Working with a coachee to produce an A-Game is a great place to start with colleagues. Asking great questions, empathetic listening and using a coach’s intuition are good ways to develop the coach:coachee relationship and uncover areas that are key to unlocking the colleague’s future potential.
From there, you can agree which tools from the Making People Better Handbook would be beneficial for the coachee to work on in order to develop their A-Game.
A key aim in developing the new programme has been to make the coaching available to everyone. It’s not traditional executive coaching, limited to the top leadership team. Unlike most corporate leadership or coaching programmes that tend to be overengineered, it’s open to everyone and it’s done in an Involvement way. That means we combine some really top-quality thinking with practical tools. We then put it into practice quickly which means you can start to make a difference pretty much immediately. Coaches also commit to ongoing development of their coaching skills as well as coaching supervision sessions where the Involvement coaches come together to debrief and raise their own awareness of how they are doing.
Express your interest here to find out more about the Involvement Coaching Academy and our Making People Better Handbook.
Involvement is a community of differing businesses with one common belief. A belief in its People. this has led to our continued success.
Our site offers resources and ideas to help other businesses replicate our people-first approach. Trust us, it really works.
Involvement is a community of differing businesses with one common belief. A belief in its People. this has led to our continued success.
Our site offers resources and ideas to help other businesses replicate our people-first approach. Trust us, it really works.
