Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Meet MRA


David Georgenson


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Executive and Manager Coaching Services

Coaching is a powerful development tool. Studies show that coaching delivers three to five times the return on the investment of time and money. MRA’s experienced coaches can help your organization build effective leaders. These leaders are the key ingredient for achieving organizational success. The actions of your company’s leaders directly influence the performance, morale, level of engagement, and motivation of your employees. Leaders who don’t engage in continuous improvement loose the edge in the changing competitive environment.

Coaching Defined

Coaching is an intense, structured, one on one relationship aimed at changing or improving some aspect of a leader’s current or future performance/behavior.

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The coaching process begins with in-depth discussions with the leader to be coached, his/her manager, and any other stake holders that can support the leader in making the desired change. Skill and behavioral assessments are incorporated into the process of need identification to better understand the development priorities and the appropriate strategies for reaching the coaching objectives. MRA has a battery of validated assessments that are utilized to support the coaching process. Once clear development needs are identified, the focus is on weekly action plans, short term measureable targets, and both internal and external accountability.

Coaching can be used to solve these talent development challenges:
  • Preparing high potentials to assume senior leadership assignments
  • Guiding an executive to overcome a career limiting behavior or attitude
  • Preparing managers to acquire new skills and strategies to support a change in business objectives
  • Building bench strength for critical positions
  • Accelerating a managers assimilation and effectiveness when appointed to a new position
  • Improving a manager’s ability to build a high performing team 
  • Helping an executive to identify and implement a new business strategy

Coaching Services Offered

MRA offers a comprehensive suite of coaching services to meet the developmental needs of leaders at all organizational levels.

MRA offers the following services:
  • Individual coaching to assist c-suite executives maximize their effectiveness
  • Individual manager coaching to improve leadership abilities and to overcome career stopping derailers 
  • Coaching consultation to assist organizations in building an organizational wide coaching culture 
  • Coaching certification programs to prepare internal staff to coach supervisors, managers, and executives
  • Customized workshops conducted on-site to train leaders to provide on the spot developmental coaching for employees
More About MRA’s Professional Team

MRA’s coaching professionals have strong business backgrounds and extensive experience in providing results focused coaching. The coaching team members have held executive positions in a variety of industries. This rich experience ensures that leaders get practical advice that aims at achieving a measurable return on investment for the organization. The breath of MRA’s professional coaching team’s background ensures a good fit with the selected coach and with the organization’s culture and the leader’s style and personality.

Where To Start

MRA offers an on-site no obligation analysis of the coaching need. Based on a thorough understanding of the organizational needs, MRA will prepare a proposal outlining the specific actions and expected results of the coaching process.

All coaching assignments are customized to satisfy both individual and organizational desired outcomes.

Talk to the Experts:

In Northern Illinois
Doree Kaforski at 800.679.7001 or Doree.Kaforski@mranet.org

In Iowa/Western Illinois
Laurie Johnson at 888.516.6357 or Laurie.Johnson@mranet.org

In Wisconsin or other locations
Business Development at 800.488.4845 or BusinessSolutions@mranet.org

 

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