"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them"

Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize in Physics 1921

 

Consultants have two main purposes. First, a consultant can fulfil the role of bringing his expertise to bear on a specific problem. In this way, consultants help organisations short cut massive learning curves, enabling them to achieve results in areas that might never have been possible without expert help.

Not many organisations have the luxury of employing experts in every field in which they operate, which is why consultants can play such a key role in organisational development. Second, particularly for the smaller business, outside consultants can also provide specialist skills and expertise, which they simply could not afford to employ on a full time basis – in effect, providing a part-time board of directors. We may not think of them in this way, but an organisation will often use a solicitor as a legal consultant.

 

For an informal chat about how consulting can provide expert solutions for your business, please call 08453 454 793 or email consulting@caswells.co.uk.

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him to discover it within himself"

Galileo Galilei – 17th Century Italian Scientist

 

Coaching is the most effective of all the personal development and performance improving techniques. Its rapidly growing popularity stems from its pure simplicity.

 

With coaching, you truly can do, have or be anything that you want.

 

Everyone, without exception, has a vast potential for happiness and success, a potential that is all too often unexplored.  Your coach awakens you to the amazing possibilities that you possess and shows you how to use them for the benefits of you, your family and your employer or staff.

 

The growth of coaching in the UK has been phenomenal since 1999.  This demand has been fired almost totally by word of mouth recommendation from people who have transformed their lives with the help of their coach.

 

Unlike therapy or counselling which is largely concerned with the past, coaching starts from where you are now and helps you get to where you want to be.

 

Unlike mentoring where specific knowledge or experience is used to support career development within an organisation, coaches concentrate on developing the resources of the individual so that solutions are found from within.

 

There are many different types of coaching but broadly speaking, coaching falls into two areas:

• Corporate & Executive Coaching

• Personal Coaching

 

Corporate & Executive Coaching

 

When individuals already possess sufficient knowledge and skill, coaching works to remove any mental barriers that can inhibit performance.  Coaching also provides a framework for continuous improvement.

 

Your coach will encourage staff to perform at the optimum level of application, enthusiasm and accuracy.  As a result of coaching they will do all this because they want to – not because they have to.

 

Corporate coaching is applicable at all levels in your organisation from the Directors and senior executives to the person who sorts and delivers the post.  True success is achieved when every individual is working for the good of the organisation (ie buying into the company ethos and culture), understands and shares the aims and objectives of the company or enterprise.

 

Your coach will also work to resolve interpersonal disputes, increase levels of personal responsibility and staff retention with positive cash savings.

 

Your coach will help your organisation with:

 

• Leadership

• Corporate / Business Development

• Director Development

• Executive Coaching

• Team Coaching / Facilitation

• Career Management

• Change & Conflict

• Succession Planning

• Exit Strategy

Personal Coaching

 

Your coach brings training, experience, care, skill and absolute confidentiality.  You bring any concerns that you have about relationships, values, business, career, finance, personal values, guilt or fear - the list is endless.

 

During the early sessions you will work together to define your own life plan.  This has elements of goal setting but is proactive with an emphasis on goal achievement.

 

Your coach will help you realise that you truly can do, have or be anything that you want.  Your coach will be with you each step of the way as you turn that realisation into your reality.  The format of weekly sessions sustains your enthusiasm and determination to ensure that the results are lasting beneficial changes – unlike the temporary “high” that can follow a seminar or motivational talk.

 

Your coach can help you achieve your goals in the following areas:

 

• Family / friends

• Career

• Partner / relationship

• Fun / recreation

• Personal growth

• Money

• Health

• Physical environment

• Stress

• Retirement

For an informal chat about how consulting can provide expert solutions for your business, please call 08453 454 793 or email coaching@caswells.co.uk.

"I forget what I was taught, I only remember what I’ve leant"

Patrick White – Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 1973

 

In an organisational setting, training is showing people what and how to perform particular tasks or duties. Training may also take the form of a transfer of information from the trainer to trainee. Examples might be training staff in the use of new computer software or informing colleagues of developments within the organisation or new company policies. Training may be carried out either by employed staff or external specialists.

 

For an informal chat about how consulting can provide expert solutions for your business, please call 08453 454 793 or email training@caswells.co.uk.

Whilst training, consultancy and coaching will improve the performance of an organisation, sometimes it takes more to maximise performance.

 

This is where facilitation comes in. Facilitation is a structured method of developing co-operation within an organisation to meet agreed goals.

 

In many organisations, training and skill levels are high, consultants have been engaged to address any strategic issues and executives may be receiving coaching. Yet, the organisation still doesn’t gel. Managers may feel that there is huge untapped potential but that there is something blocking the way. By developing co-operation within an organisation, facilitation identifies and removes those blockages enabling the organisation to more easily maximise its performance.

 

For an informal chat about how consulting can provide expert solutions for your business, please call 08453 454 793 or email coaching@caswells.co.uk.