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Coaching to Connect

Leadership & Organizational Training & Coaching

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Coaching to Connect Services:
- Executive Coaching
- Middle Management Coaching
- Employee Coaching
- Organizational Consulting
- Leadership Training
- Team Building
- Leadership System Development
- 360 Assessments
- Project Management Training

- Mentor Training
- StrategicPlanning
- Spirituality in the Workplace Training

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Read an article featured on CBS News about how coaching can benefit you and your organization.
Why You Need Coaching
Video: Coaching Defined

Who needs a consultant/coach?

Maybe you do! If you can resonate with any of the following, our coaching and consulting services might be the answer for you.
For Non-Profit Organizations
  • We have employees, but we don't feel like a team.
  • We have talent and potential and are ready to move to the next level.
  • We seem to be guessing at what is the best thing to do. It's like we have no solid foundation or direction.
  • I am completely overwhelmed by the volume of work I have to do.
  • We're not reaching our financial goals.
  • There's a key project either missing or underdeveloped in our organization. How do we get it up and running?
  • Nobody seems to really know what we stand for.
  • There's not much enthusiasm within our organization.
  • We launch new services and get little positive response.
For Churches
  • Enrollment at our church is dropping, and we can't put our finger on the reason why or come up with a workable solution.
  • We have a lot of staff turnover.
  • Our youth group is okay, but it is so disconnected from everything else our church is doing.
  • We need to figure out a way to get families excited about coming to church together.
  • Our people come to church, but it doesn't seem like they are connecting church with the other six days of the week.
  • We see where we want to go, but we just don't know how to build the structure that will get us there.
  • Everyone on the staff is busy, but there seems to be little coordination among our efforts.
  • We offer programs and members just don't show up.
ARE YOU READY TO BE COACHED?
Coaching to Connect offers a custom-designed experience that will help your organization and your leaders move forward with your most pressing issues and needs. A coach can empower you to pinpoint your greatest priorities and develop a workable plan to meet your goals as you live your true mission.

Before you commit to coaching, you should take a look at this article that outlines what you need to consider if you want to be a successful coaching client: CLICK HERE


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Positive organizational change is on its way!



"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates

Here’s what you can expect from CtC planning services!

Together we'll work with the unique realities of your organization and customize an approach using any combination of the following offerings:


Assess: Assessing your current reality is a key to revealing your next steps.
 
  • CtC will listen to you and your organizational context to help you discover your areas of strength, the challenges you face, and to explore your emerging vision for a promising future.
 
  • CtC also offers formal 360 leadership assessments.
 
  • CtC partners with LEAD (Living Every day As Disciples) a ministry training organization that offers a full congregational assessment for churches.
 
  • CtC can also create a customized assessment tool to target specific areas of organizational development that are important to you.

Teach: Organizational transformation, reinvention, and adaptive change require new ways of thinking and acting. CtC can assist you as you clarify key learning needs and can often provide tailored educational programs on the issues that are important for your forward movement.

Surveys and Focus Groups: Organizational transformation doesn’t happen because of the work of a staff alone; it includes members/clients/customers as well. CtC assists you to develop survey tools and/or focus groups that will empower you to put your finger on the pulse of your target audience so that your innovation efforts will meet real needs and will be welcomed as relevant solutions to your audience's most pressing issues.
 
Vision Clarification: Working without a vision is like expecting a GPS to get you where you want to go without inputting the address. Clear, concise, and inspiring visions energize an organization’s successful forward movement and clarify what is important now. CtC can assist you with vision clarification and vision communication.

Mission and Values Clarification: Self-awareness is a necessary component of committed organizations and committed individuals. Identifying what we stand for in a certain place and at a certain time in history guides our daily priorities and clarifies to what and to whom we will be committed. CtC can assist you as you develop a captivating mission statement and a powerful list of core values that will clarify your organization’s identity.
 
Identify SMART Goals and Relevant Strategies: When an organization works on developing a clear picture of its future (visioning) and how it is called to be in the present moment (mission and values), goals begin to emerge that are both consistent with the organization’s identity and empower the organization to realize its vision. Large goals are broken down into actionable strategies that can be lived in decisive and powerful ways on a daily basis by everyone in the organization. Strategies are where the “rubber hits the road” and are the behaviors that build, brick by brick, the desired future of an organization. CtC can assist you in developing Specific, Measurable, Attractive, Relevant, and Time-sensitive goals as well as the strategies that bring them to life.
 
Model: Modeling is a simple and visual way of capturing a global view of your organization. By systematically following a product, a service, or a client through your organization, great insight and awareness can emerge. These powerful insights can reveal the areas where an organization needs to focus its attention to facilitate positive transformation. CtC has a process for assisting organizations with model development.

Implement: Planning without implementation is like mapping out your dream road trip and never getting into the car. Implementation is the deliberate process of changing individual and corporate actions and words to align with the plan. Creating deep levels of organizational trust, honest dialogue, and high commitment will set the stage for dynamic accountability as the plan unfolds. CtC will assist you with both the foundations and the daily routines of implementation.

Evaluate: Evaluation is how we stay on track. Organizations that build dynamic communication systems into their structure know at any given moment how well or how poorly they are doing with their plan. Evaluation is both formal and spontaneous. CtC can assist you as you develop an ongoing plan for evaluation and improvement.

Coach: Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Organizational leaders who are managing transitions benefit in unique ways from a professional coaching relationship. It is a way of building accountability and consistent strategic movement into a planning process. Coaching empowers people to produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations, helping them to bridge the gap between where they are now and where they want to be. Coaches partner with their clients to design the life they want, bring out their clients’ own brilliance and resources so that they can achieve excellence and create purposeful, extraordinary lives and organizations.

Enculturate: One of the greatest failures of organizational innovation is the lack of awareness of the power of organizational culture. Every organization has a unique culture, and the culture drives team members to think, feel, speak, and act in particular ways. Much of the motivation for these thoughts, feelings, words, and actions are below the conscious level. The CtC process will assist you with naming cultural characteristics that both help and hinder the innovation process. The organization can then develop strategies to enculturate the new approaches so that they become part of the heart and soul of organizational life going forward.




Partners and Influences of Coaching to Connect:

If you want to know more about us, get to know a few of our partners and the great leaders who influence our work:
  • The Institute for Life Coach Training: www.lifecoachtraining.com
  • International Coach Federation: www.coachfederation.org
  • Nadya Zhexembayeva: www.chiefreinventionofficer.com
  • Ken Blanchard: www.kenblanchard.com
  • Judith Glaser: http://www.creatingwe.com/home
  • James Kouzes & Barry Posner: www.leadershipchallenge.com
  • Patrick Lencioni: www.tablegroup.com
  • Marilee Adams: www.inquiryinstitute.com
  • Lifelong Faith Associates: www.lifelongfaith.com
  • LEAD: www.waytolead.org
  • Vibrant Faith Ministries: www.vibrantfaith.org
  • Cultivation Ministries: www.cultivationministries.com
  • The Search Institute: www.search-institute.org
  • The Center for Ministry Development: www.cmdnet.org
  • The Epiphany Association: www.epiphanyassociation.org


To inquire about coaching, consulting and/or training...

jim@coachingtoconnect.com

or call...

330-261-1630

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About Coaching to Connect

Coaching to Connect provides coaching, training and consulting services for leaders and leadership teams. For more information, browse the site or contact Jim Merhaut, 330-261-1630 or jim@coachingtoconnect.com.
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