Reinforcement through coaching or assessment

For reinforced impact, individual support such as coaching and/or an assessment mechanism can be added to any training programme.

Coaching

The impact of a training can quadruple thanks to the addition of coaching sessions!¹ Authors Olivero et al demonstrated that, after training alone, the participants of their study displayed an average increase in productivity of 22%. When training was augmented by coaching, the average increase in productivity rose fourfold - to 88%.

In an area awash with terminology, we simply define the practice of coaching as ‘personalised guidance, usually in a face-to-face meeting’. Its purpose - to simultaneously boost personal performance and personal growth.

The priority is to build on strengths and create meaningful results.

Coaching can be conducted on its own, complement a training programme or indeed be part of our “reinforced methodology”, i.e. combined with a training programme and a 4LS evaluation.

More about why coaching reinforces training so successfully.

Assessment

As a point of departure for an intervention addressing behaviour, to measure return on investment, or indeed, as a benchmarking tool, the importance of assessment is clear. Krauthammer offers you three approaches, i.e. the assessment centre, the 361° approach (included in all Leadership and Management programmes) and the 4LS evaluation.

¹Olivero, Gerald, Bane, Denise, Kopelman, Richard (1997) ‘Executive Coaching as a transfer of training tool: effects of productivity in a public agency’, Public Personnel Management