Thursday, November 4, 2010

Executive & Business Coaching

Coaching Foundation India Limited (CFI) is India’s first institution dedicated to the cause of Coaching! CFI’s founding purpose is to create Executive and Business Coaching professionals of international standing and offer comprehensive coaching solutions to individuals and organisations.

1. Coaching Service institutions in CFI

CFI offers a range of services to fulfill the needs of its clients and member community

* Coaching Services

Through its accreditation program, CFI constantly adds to its base of accredited coaches with diverse capabilities to meet the unique needs of each client.

* Member Services

CFI offers its accredited coaches and professional members access to appropriate coaching engagement opportunities as well as researched Coaching IP, tools and methodologies.

2. Advisory Services

This division helps its clients to build a culture of coaching and mentoring by designing and implementing bespoke programs and processes and also training managers across levels to imbibe and demonstrate a coaching oriented style of leadership. They provide services for CFI’s accredited coaches and professional members. CFI believes that all its accredited coaches should keep their coaching skills sharp and contemporary on a continuous basis. CEOs of organisations are also constantly looking to work with executive coaches to enhance their individual leadership styles and achieve higher levels of performance. CFI aims to fulfil these needs through a variety of client offerings which include:

* One-on-one coaching engagements for Chief Executives and Members of the senior management of organisations to address their specific individual needs.

* Customised in-house programs for senior managers and middle managers to enable them to become internal coaches and propagate the coaching style of leadership within their respective organisation.

* Customised short duration programs to create an awareness of executive and business coaching in the minds of senior and middle managers and address specific needs of organisations.

3. Coaching Accreditation Program

The Accreditation Division is headed by a member of the Board of Governors for CFI who is assisted by an academic council. Members of this council include Founding Members of CFI, Honorary Fellows of CFI and distinguished thought leaders from academia, commerce and industry with impeccable credentials and impressive track records.

The council continuously monitors the structure and rigour of the various programs to ensure that they are at all times contemporary, client focused and benchmarked to world standards. The council also ensures that these standards are inbuilt into the process followed by the Training Division and the Advisory Services Division in the various facets of their operations.

The Accreditation Division is concerned with assessing,evaluating and certifying that participants have fulfilled the prescribed accreditation requirements that qualify them to become practising coaches at various levels of competence. The primary objective of the accreditation process is to ensure that all CFI coach interns display adequate evidence of their coaching competencies.