How can you make your top people even more effective?

Atheletes rely on coaching to improve results and achieve their full potential. Why should a business be any different?

OvationXL coaching:
- develops leadership skills
- increases commercial performance and profitability
- supports individuals taking on new responsibilities
- equips individuals for the next level of success
- achieves rapid results – typically in just 6 x 2.5 hour sessions
- is highly rated by clients - overall value of service from OvationXL = 95.7%*

Coaching helped one Regional Head of a top 100 law firm deliver all-time record fee levels in 2008. He said: “I put this remarkable result down to the coaching I have been doing with OvationXL. It has changed so many things. I have no doubt that others would benefit.”

Who benefits from coaching?
People taking on new responsibilities at a senior level – coaching makes the transition more successful, more quickly.

Business leaders - coaching provides support where they can understand and improve their impact on the people around them and develop new commercial outcomes.

Senior teams - who need to develop solutions to specific business issues – a facilitator can guide and focus them during the course of a day or half-day.

And in these more troubled times – we offer ‘team repair’ sessions to re-establish their business purpose.

The qualities of leadership are sometimes strained...

For many top people, being appointed to a senior or partnership position can feel less like the end of journey and more like the beginning of a quite lonely experience. Suddenly, without any special support or training, you may be expected to make difficult decisions about colleagues who might also be friends. You are expected to deliver increased returns year on year. And you are expected to show clear leadership abilities and commercial initiative. No wonder so many new business leaders throughout the Midlands find this transition a time of great stress. Both business and personal relationships can suffer. This, in turn, simply adds further pressures.

Help is here

Through performance coaching, OvationXL provides fast, cost-effective support that delivers excitingly positive results. In confidential, 1-2-1 sessions, coaching enables each candidate to explore the issues they face and find solutions to them. The number of sessions required is typically four to six.

OvationXL helps you adapt to change and opportunity by developing management and leadership skills.

- become more effective leaders
- be successful in difficult times
- take hard decisions objectively
- manage difficult situations positively
- overcome blocks to progress
- unlock your full potential
- build more effective business relationships
- increase your commercial value

What’s the difference between...?
Coaching – provides management and leadership development, over a series of 1-2-1 sessions.
Facilitating – a business team are guided to work together over the course of a day or half-a-day with to reach specific solutions to a business issue.
Mentoring – longer-term support which provides an independent, expert who acts as a sounding board and guide.
Training – key business skills are transferred to your people by specialist trainers.

OvationXL provide training, facilitating, mentoring and coaching services.

What is the coaching process?
In any business, time is the most precious resource for partners, directors and senior managers. OvationXL aims to deliver coaching over the shortest practical timescales so the benefits materialise in your business as quickly as possible. Proven to work across many different business sectors, our process starts with a free 30-45 minute scoping session. This helps you explore the areas where coaching is going to help and the amount of coaching required – usually four to six sessions is all that’s required.

Each 1-2-1 session is held approximately once every three weeks and lasts 2.5 hours.

How much do you need to budget?
Our bespoke 1-2-1 coaching sessions each last 2.5 hours and are held once a month at your premises or preferred location. For the standard six session coaching the cost is £660 + VAT per month, making a total investment of £3,960 +VAT + travel expenses where applicable.
For the four session coaching, the cost is £685 + VAT per month, making a total investment of £2,740 + VAT + travel expenses where applicable.

Can we measure the benefits?
Definitely. As Ovation XL Managing Director, Robin Johnson says “We ask our clients to measure the outcomes in terms of impact on the business, such as repeat or increased business.” Invariably, the benefits are both commercial and personal.

Coach profiles

Robin Johnson, Managing Director

Clients frequently report that Robin’s coaching sessions far exceed their most optimistic expectations. Robin’s own experience as the managing director of a multi-million pound, City-based branding and communications business makes his input highly practical and commercial. He specialises in working 1-2-1 with senior business managers and partners to develop personal and professional effectiveness.

Julian Tutty, Performance Coach, Trainer and Facilitator

Julian helps senior executives moving from positions of expertise, whether as lawyers or commercial technical specialists, to leadership roles where developing relationships is the key factor. He also acts as a highly skilled trainer and facilitator for teams of people. Julian has held senior posts in HR, and most recently was Global Head of Performance at Allen & Overy LLP where he lead a team providing leadership and management development and worked closely with leading Business Schools in the UK and US.

Adam Sprackling, Performance Coach, Trainer and Facilitator

Adam specialises in focusing key individuals and teams on strategic goals. More than just providing skills, he says, coaching enables a change of attitude, something that cannot be achieved within a training environment. Adam has delivered Management Development and Organisational Change programmes across a wide range of business and government sectors, including Merrill Lynch, Freshfields, British Airways, Sainsburys, Sony Ericsson and the Cabinet Office.

FREE** 1-2-1 SCOPING SESSION

“I didn’t know what to expect so the initial meeting to scope the coaching process was very good.” Divisional Head, Regional Law Firm.

Explore the potential of coaching to build leadership and management skills. There’s no obligation and it’s free. Call Robin Johnson on 0845 260 7700 or email us.

*Results taken from 100% of clients completing their 1-2-1 four to six module business performance coaching programmes between 01.01.07 and 23.10.08.
** In exceptional circumstances OvationXL reserve the right to decline this offer if it feels that the proposed candidate may not be suitable for coaching or group training