How Does Coaching Augment Basic Training,
Seminars, and Conferences?

Coaching is done one-on-one, making it both customized AND confidential. Group interactions can provide considerable value to attendees, but coaching picks right up where training leaves off. That's because coaching is about individual learning in an INDIVIDUAL setting. It's done 1-on-1 so the focus is ENTIRELY on the individual without distraction and completely private so there's no need to hold back on what's said . Each call is customized - and optimized - to be PRECISELY what's needed for each person no matter where they are, or what's on their mind. Translation: It's about what's needed.

Coaching is done by telephone, which makes it surprisingly cost-effective. After a 30-to-45 minute coaching call, you can get right back to work. No fuss; no muss. Compare that to your typical out-of-town training, seminar, or conference where you're gone for days-on-end. Which is more convenient? Which is less disruptive? And COACHING SAVES REAL DOLLARS because there are no travel, lodging, or per diem costs for participants to incur. So coaching saves time AND money. Translation: You truly get more for less - an important notion with budgets as tight as they are.

Coaching continues over time, which makes it continually relevant, AND reinforcing. Who hasn't had some incredible Aha! Moments after a great seminar, conference or training session? But back and the office, that barrage of voicemails, emails, and ASAP projects makes it nearly impossible to retain what you learned. Contrast that with coaching, which is designed to occur DURING the workday, on a weekly or biweekly basis - and continue over the course of several months. With coaching, not only are those great Aha! Moments remembered, but they can be tested, tweaked, and put into practice as well. Translation: The learning gets implemented through the structured approach of coaching.

Coaching is about what's going on AT THIS MOMENT, which makes it wonderfully useful for both for short- and long-term improvements. Basic training, seminars, and conferences offer the same program to all attendees, regardless of any one person's particular strengths, weaknesses, interests, or needs. But coaching takes the learning beyond theories, constructs, and canned performances, and FOCUSES EACH SESSION on what's needed RIGHT NOW to make the call a relevant, meaningful, and timely learning opportunity. It's not that basic training, seminars, and conferences aren't useful. But they have their limitations. So when it comes to really enabling growth and development - enabling lasting and sustainable change - coaching is the perfect adjunct to training, seminar, and conference attendance. Translation: It's about the participant, and NOT about filling seats at a seminar.

The best way to get a feel for coaching is to try it! All it takes is about 20-to-30 minutes, a topic to be coached on, and a phone call or inquire to set up your sample coaching session.
See what it's like.