Stone Soup offers purposeful coaching with a sense of humor for professionals who want to make strategic, effective and insightful decisions in their business, careers and personal lives. People call us when they need a sounding board, a third-party perspective, and a good laugh. Jan’s style of coaching is to combine insightful observations with humor to:  Refine and enhance focus for high impact results.  Chart a course based on the uniqueness of the individual, team and organization to reach desired goals.  Identify and eliminate barriers that may prohibit performance.  Provide accountability to reach goals, make changes, and solve problems. Provide and connect soft skills training results with organizational goals. As a coach from outside of your organization, Jan provides your employees with a confidential way to discuss and solve problems that impact their work that they may not feel comfortable sharing with someone from within the organization. What are the results? Coaching can:  Produce positive business results and generate momentum.  Find answers and action plans to bring out the best in employees and the organization. Develop employees and managers to think and perform at their best  Maximize the impact of all resources Align leadership and employees with company objectives  Enhance leadership and management skills How can we measure the success of professional coaching for our employees? ·    External indicators of performance. Measures which can be seen and measured in the individual’s or team’s environment. Achievement of coaching goals established at the outset of the coaching relationship.  Increased income/revenue.  Obtaining a promotion. Performance feedback which is obtained from a sample of the individual’s constituents (e.g., direct reports, colleagues, customers, boss, the manager him/herself).  Personal and/or business performance data (e.g., productivity, efficiency measures). The external measures selected should ideally be things the individual is already measuring and are things the individual has some ability to directly influence. ·    Internal indicators of success. Measures which are inherent within the individual or team members being coached and can be measured by the individual or team being coached with the support of the coach. Ideally, both external and internal metrics are incorporated.  Self-scoring/self-validating assessments that can be administered initially and at regular intervals in the coaching process.  Changes in the individual’s self-awareness and awareness of others. Shifts in thinking which inform more effective actions, and shifts in one’s emotional state which inspire confidence. Source: International Coach Federation (www.coachfederation.org) How can we use coaching as a tool for performance and retention?  By supporting your existing investment in staff development and training.  Coaching is the ‘now what’ factor – “Now that you have attended this training, how will you apply the information going forward?”  Strategic planning for leadership and work teams strategy meetings.  Coaching can successfully tackle turf issues, resolve conflicts and neutralize competing agendas while creating an action plan.  Focus an accountability process for teams, management, and leadership, casting the vision and direction of the organization. Help address problems in workforce dynamics through individual and team coaching—building trust, respect, and an understanding of appropriate and productive workplace behavior. Coaching is a conduit for the high impact results for your organization. Coaching is the crucial difference for top performing employees, teams and organizations.  Not just another tool or technique, coaching is a key factor in:  Enhancing employee retention, productivity, and loyalty. Optimizing performance of individuals, teams, and departments – improving efficiency and effectiveness across all departments and functions.  Developing an atmosphere that seeks solutions, innovation and high impact organizational results in the face of competition, change, and the unexpected. How do we get started? Contact Jan today by email (jan@stonesoupcoaching.com) or by phone @ 336.650.1443.