Creating winning teams - in the UK and internationally

• Are you looking for support in making changes at work? 
• Do you want to develop yourself or your team for immediate and lasting results? 
• Or perhaps you want to develop a different leadership style?

Use our communication solutions to solve your problems

If you answer 'yes' to any of the questions above, we can help you. We provide a range of business coaching options to develop leadership and improve performance:

• 1:1 executive and corporate coaching for leaders, managers, teams
• coaching skills for leaders and managers
• communication coaching
• intercultural coaching
• DISC communication coaching 

We provide Coaching Skills Training for your leaders, managers and aspiring leaders

• Do you want to optimise the performance of each individual? 
• Do you want your leaders and managers to 
• develop their people through coaching instead of "telling"?
• Do you want all the benefits of a coaching culture, instead of a "tell" culture   ? 

Do you lead a team and want to optimise their performance? Click here and request our FREE book The S-Factor: FREE till end of March 2010.

We provide Coaches who work on a 1:1 basis with leaders, managers and senior people

• Do you want a coach to work with others - with selected leaders and managers in your organisation? 
• Are you looking to work with a coach to improve your own leadership, performance or skills? 

Executive and corporate coaching for leaders and teams 

Coaching leaders at all levels in the organisation

Coaching is widely recognised today, in business and the professions, as a powerful and cost-effective way of developing leaders and teams at all levels. We develop leaders and teams for our clients in the UK and abroad, through individual or group coaching and facilitation.

OPC leadership and development coaches are well qualified and each has a minimum of 7-10 years' experience of coaching in a corporate environment.

In addition to our coaching work with corporate clients, we have a number of leadership coaches who specialise in the education sector, coaching regularly in schools, universities or colleges.

What is coaching?

Coaching is a structured and rigorous conversation which gives you time and a "thinking partner" for valuable reflection, enables creative problem-solving and deepens the thought process. The client chooses their own goal or objective, and then works with the coach to achieve these within an agreed time-frame. Executives and senior leaders want experienced executive coaches who will act as a sounding board, challenge them and give them feedback which their own colleagues do not give. Leaders at all levels benefit from optimising their potential with the right coach. 

Intercultural Coaching

OPC coaches work with leaders, managers and aspiring leaders to optimise performance

Coaching example - corporate:

A senior leader wants to optimise the potential of her high-performing international sales team, based in Sweden. OPC completes a DISC profile for each member of the team, including a written 8-page report for each, with an individual debrief in person for each. Then Stage 2 is a half-day coaching session for the team leader, analysing what the profiling reveals and developing ways to optimise motivation for each of the sales staff. In Stage 3 each team member has an individual coaching meeting with the DISC coach from OPC, with the focus on optimising performance.

Stage 4 is a team-building session, facilitated by the coach, in which the group shares their DISC results and creates a 3-month plan to build on the learning, decide new targets and agree strategies to achieve them. As the team works internationally, OPC can provide coaching in intercultural and advanced presentation skills (Stage 5).

Coaching example - in education:

The deputy head of a newly re-structured school in Oxford is unhappy about her job-position in the UK. She is convinced the vision for the new company is ill-conceived and has lost motivation for her work. She has a series of 5 coaching sessions with an OPC coach; as a result, she clarifies her thinking, re-awakens enthusiasm for the job and initiates a constructive relationship with her new boss. Click here for case-studies on coaching in education and on coaching skills in schools.

Your goals can be in an area of communication

You may wish to focus on a goal connected to your work in the UK or internationally, such as

• Cross-cultural skills
• Meetings and presentations
• Confidence and professionalism in English.

OPC offers you a choice of corporate coaches depending on the results you want to achieve. If your aims cannot be achieved by coaching alone, your OPC coach may advise that you consider a training option instead, or in addition.

• Could you communicate more effectively? 
• Do you lack confidence in public speaking, presentations or meetings,
• Does your accent or pronunciation make you hard to understand?

If so, you will find that working with one of our presentation coaches is very successful. If your pronunciation is unclear, Diction Coaching will help you speak clearly and be understood easily.

If you want to improve your English, we recommend you use our English language teachers in our specialist division called Oxford Professional English.

OPC coaching options

• as a stand-alone development tool for leaders, managers and ambitious professionals
• as follow-up to a training course from OPC
• as follow-up to a course from another training provider

Coaching after a training course, to integrate new learning into your job

If you choose to follow your training course with a coaching package, you receive much more value and benefit. Without follow-up coaching, you can leave a course with a good Action Plan which you never implement because you are too busy. Follow-up coaching supports you in transferring new skills from training into your job - and helps you make the time to do so.

Coaching example: After a group course in international influencing skills in a large international oil company, one participant took a course of 8 coaching sessions by phone, over a 3-month period. At the end of the programme, not only had her presentation and meetings skills greatly improved, but all-round confidence and work-load management had significantly improved in addition.

Coach your team - develop your own coaching skills 

OPC runs a series of coaching skills workshops for companies and organisations. Please click here to read about our coaching skills workshops for companies.

DISC profiling

We use the DISC personality profiling system with clients - they find it effective and practical in improving communication, both in the workplace and with clients. As a development tool for leaders and teams, the DISC report gives you important insights and creates awareness of strengths and challenge areas. To make sustainable changes, work with one of our coaches to use these insights as the springboard to improved performance, relationships and results. The 4 styles identified by the DISC profiling system are:

D (Drive)

I (Influence)

S (Steadiness)

C (Compliance).

We process our DISC questionnaires through People Keys. To receive your DISC profile, follow two easy steps:

Our prices

• For corporate work in UK and Norway: our prices start at £2000 per day per trainer or coach.
• For corporate work in other countries: our prices depend on economic factors. 
• For schools in the UK: we have special prices for schools.