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CEO EXECUTIVE SERIES!
26 MAY 2014
HOW STRONG IS YOUR COACHING CULTURE?! New Executive Team member, Niamh Ní Bhéara – Managing Director for Logistics Executive Group UK & Ireland - discusses coaching and the fundamental role it plays in improving performance in organisations today.
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Logistics Executive Global News Logistics Executive Group Announces New Offices in London and Brisbane
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my career I’ve worked in many functional disciplines, across all levels of an organisation. One topic that I’m particularly passionate about is promoting excellence in leadership development – having seen first-hand the significant impact it can have on organisational performance.!
My knowledge and experience of the human resource and employee lifecycle has led me to the conclusion that organisations need to be doing more to promote a culture of continuous development – whether it’s soft skills training, technical development, long-term leadership programmes or coaching. This not only improves employee engagement, it also enables people to be truly innovative in their roles, to challenge themselves, to grow personally and as part of a team as well as supporting the identification of strategies to deal with change and the pressured environment we work in.! © 2014 LRS Group Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved!
Logistics Executive Group, CEO Kimble Winter has announced the opening of new offices in London and Brisbane.! UK & Ireland ! “We have been proud serve customers throughout the UK since 2000 and it’s a great pleasure to welcome UK based Niamh Ni Bheara, as Managing Director Logistics Executive UK and Ireland” said Winter “Niamh has 25 years front-line experience having held senior executive positions within the global Aviation and Logistics industries”. ! Brisbane Australia! Having worked with clients in Queensland since 2001 we are also delighted to open Logistics Executive Queensland’s new office by introducing Directors Tom Rafferty and Michael Airton” said Kim Winter. “Tom and Michael possess over fifty year’s experience across a wide range of supply chain roles in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia between them with strong operational experience in transport, distribution, purchasing, production management, customer service, forecasting, inventory management, sales and marketing”. he said. For more information email Mr Kim Winter KimW@LogisticsExecutive.com.!
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CEO EXECUTIVE SERIES! However, in many companies I’ve worked with, I’ve noticed there is not a strong enough culture of on-going coaching to enable this.! A 2013 Stanford Business School report into executive coaching found that “lonely at the top” resonates for most CEOs with nearly two thirds of CEOs and almost half of senior executives are not receiving coaching or leadership advice. Interestingly, 100% of the CEOs questioned said they actively enjoy the process of receiving coaching. I believe it is a truly vital part of the development journey for CEOs and Senior Management Teams.! The report also found that Boards are also eager for CEOs to improve talent development. Being coached as an individual helps to initiate a coaching culture and it’s essential we equip our leaders with the tools to coach their own teams effectively.! A Senior Management Team is usually made up of people who are brilliantly technically experienced, but may require help to develop their skills to be effective as leaders. When I work as a business coach, initially I help the individual align themselves with the company strategy and vision as well as looking at their own personal development aspirations. I then support them creating an actionable plan that identifies how they can maximise their performance, increase productivity and have a positive impact on achieving the objectives set out in the strategy. We then work together over a period of time implementing the plan. !
26 MAY 2014 Introducing coaching at the top of an organisation helps to engender a culture of coaching and people can really begin to see the benefits. I would encourage all leaders to actively learn coaching skills in order to maximise the benefits of continuous learning and development throughout the organisation. I believe that coaching skills training should be made available to anyone that manages or supervises people as it can harness the outcome of other learning and development activities. Additionally, a leader who coaches, develops a self- asserting and pro-active team thus reducing the need to manage.! Interestingly, the 2013/14 Supply Chain & Logistics Employment Market Survey Report, published by Logistics Executive this month, revealed that more than 63% of the respondents (in excess of 5000 Logistics professionals from 80 countries) had never been offered coaching as part of their career development. And of those, 85% advised that it would be something that would be of interest to them. This, unfortunately, is no surprise to me, and further confirms that we must embrace coaching as a tool to engage our people and focus performance.! I also run ECMR International where we regularly use one-to-one coaching to follow up our soft skills training courses. This really helps to embed learning because it allows each delegate the opportunity for one-to-one support and coaching from the person who delivered the training.!
TRAINING AND STAFF PERFORMANCE Logistics Executive in conjunction with partners is committed to providing the most relevant and cutting-edge Supply Chain, Logistics & Executive development to your employees upgrading their future skills and helping to retrain. Our short and long-term courses include industry specific seminars, tier one accredited courses, and on-site customised training developed for Supply Chain and Logistics employers. Logistics Executive Training Academy provides Quality Training and Development for companies and organisations that meet their individual needs. We provide training and assessment services that are relevant, flexible and of the highest quality.
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CEO EXECUTIVE SERIES! It is also a fix for the current gap in management skills, which means many delegates don’t receive post-training follow-up from their own line manager. !
26 MAY 2014 helping them look at things through a different lens, opening doors and giving people choices.!
Change is essential for survival in any organisation and when I Additionally, there is also a see a lack of coaching culture higher rate of learning transfer that could support that change from training to ‘back at the process, it concerns me. ! desk’, which subsequently When the Senior Management increases the return on training Team puts a cohesive coaching investment. ! programme in place to harness Coaching requires very specific the potential of its Board, skills that need to be honed Leaders and Managers, it really over time. These include: does reap rewards. ! staying neutral to another Unity in a common purpose, person’s position; high quality with first-hand knowledge of listening, questioning and strategy and an eagerness to be communication skills; and the best we can be is being professionally agile to fundamental to success.! respond to changing Coaching can play a key role in requirements. ! achieving this and can also Managers and executives need equip us with a resilience to understand what coaching can deal with the challenges of deliver and how powerful the today’s business environment. ! impact can be. I find my experience as a business coach extremely rewarding. It’s about empowering people to think about things differently,
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AUTHOR PROFILE: NIAMH NÍ BHÉARA - MANAGING DIRECTOR - UK & IRELAND, ! LOGISTICS EXECUTIVE GROUP! Niamh, an Irish national, has almost 25 years experience in front-line through to Senior Management roles in the Aviation and Logistics industries. Having worked in positions with Global responsibility, combined with living in several European countries, she has gleaned a comprehensive knowledge of the operational, strategic and cultural challenges facing her clients. Specialising in Customer Service, Claims Consultancy and Leadership, she excels at bringing a practical approach to problem solving and focuses on delivering holistic solutions. In addition to her strong commercial acumen and passion for service and people, Niamh is consistently commended on her ability to work at all levels of an organisation and the high standards of coaching and development she delivers. Contact Niamh on email: NiamhN@LogisticsExecutive.com © 2014 LRS Group Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved!
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