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ROI -For Workplace Coaching
"Coaching
may be the wave that carries the future of business training
and personal development. But if
that wave is ever to crest,
businesses (large and small) must be able to determine a
financial return on
their investment."
-HR
Today
"There
is no escaping it: increasingly trainers are having to
account for training dollars spent.”
-S. Shelton, Training and Development Journal
*Definition of ROI includes
both money made and savings in time, money, resources, etc.
Measuring
ROI (return-on-investment)
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
consistently alerts its members and readers to the survival
tactic of evaluating, documenting, and quantifying the return on
investment ( ROI ) of training and coaching initiatives. Clients
want to see a numerical scorecard -the measurable
results that training and coaching have brought to their
organization. Today, trainers and coaches are required to
prove the measurable value and return on their client's
investment in personal development. Gone are the days when
professionals involved in people development could not
cost-justify their work. The bottom line is that any
trainer and coach must be able to demonstrate the financial return
on the dollars spent.
Traditional
deployment of skills training initiatives fail to produce
measurable and sustainable change
Businesses are still
plagued with the challenge of developing sustainable, measurable
training and coaching programs that are able to target an
employee's thinking, individual perceptions, self and social
awareness, self and relationship management, and commitment to
approaching people and situations differently than in the past. Dr
Skiffington's easy-to-use Mind WorkOut Coaching Tools and
Techniques (based upon valid
and reliable methodology from the behavioral sciences) are able to quickly
and easily target and develop key thinking skills and behavioral
competencies and provide clear statistical evidence of a real
return. Quantifying data to support this new, revolutionary
delivery approach is now surfacing in the many studies around
behavior-based coaching.
Behavioral Neuroscience
and Psychology provide
us the key, whilst Coaching provides us the deliver platform
By translating and
reformatting the latest advances in the field of behavioral
neuroscience together with proven psychological models of personal
change into fun and
invigorating WorkOut Coaching Sessions --individuals and
businesses alike are provided simple and practical turn-key
solutions that greatly increase their chances of effecting
lasting positive change and generating significant advances in
people's lives.
Case Study -A 450% Return On Investment
-Practical and Easy-to-apply
Some of BSA's key staff were
enrolled in a suite of the Mind WorkOut Coaching Programs. BSA's
objective was to stimulate their people to become 1)
more productive and effective in their work, 2) better
problem-solvers and, 3) more deliberate about using their
creativity to produce bottom-line results. Within one week to six
months following the program BSA measured a whole range of
significant tangible savings and intangible benefits. Monetarily,
it amounted to greater than a 450% return on investment (including taking
into account the cost of “unproductive” time the employees
were away from their jobs while participating in the training).
Applying the skills across an
organization via a faster and cheaper delivery format
So how did BSA get such a great ROI
on the coaching provided by internal coaches trained and certified
by Dr Skiffington's Graduate School of Master Coaches? BSA's
HR Manager reported that
there were substantial savings across the entire organization
directly attributed to the breakthrough thinking skills training. “The programs
were a great investment. What was really great about these
programs though, is that people could actually apply what
they learned from day one. The tools and techniques and tips
really invigorated our people and helped them unleash their
creative thinking skills to get them to where they wanted to go.
The results have been substantial.” -K. Waters (BSA's HR Manager).
"One of the greatest benefits from
the program was its ability to help people organize their
thoughts and actions and come up with ideas that when put together
really improved our efficiencies. This has had a direct
positive impact on our business.”
The bottom-line
“The biggest gain from the coaching were the
intangible benefits that the participants experienced and carried
with them as they applied what they learned. The coaching programs
have definitely improved morale, well-being and general
attitude,” Waters says, “It also simply helps people make
better decisions and generate better solutions.” Participants
also reported that their team meetings were more productive
and that their clients were benefiting from a deliberate
shift in their thinking.
Other ROI / General evidence on
the returns of Coaching
Results of a coaching poll of mostly
FORTUNE 1000 companies: The respondents were executives
from large companies who had participated in coaching
programs to improve their mental capacities. "The survey
demonstrated that the participants valued the coaching at 6X
the cost paid by their company. So, an $18,000 program
investment generated value at approximately $108,000.
-Fortune
Magazine (Fortune 2/19/03)
"Employees
at Nortel Networks estimate that their coaching programs
earned the company a 529 percent "return on investment and
significant intangible benefits to the business,"
according to calculations prepared by Merrill C. Anderson, a
professor of clinical education at Drake University."
-Psychology
Today 2004
And even in organizations that haven't conducted formal
evaluation of their skills training programs, anecdotal results
speak volumes. A GM plant discovered a way to save
$40,000 per week and achieve a statistical
“zero-defect” rate. British
Petroleum's worldwide exploration and production company
BPX, launched a $12 million project known as Virtual
Teamworking. About 60 percent of the budget went into a
behavior focused suite of coaching programs aimed at encouraging
an open approach to information exchange. Estimated savings for
the first year: $30 million. Kodak
saved three million dollars per year on one production
line alone!
Hitachi is
investing in a personalized coaching development program to
retain key staff. To keep its most talented employees,
Hitachi has now introduced a series of targeted coaching programs
for managers. Fortunately, there are many more
stories like this that demonstrate how a targeted mental skills training
and coaching program can more than pay for itself…very quickly,
and frequently immediately! One person who had received coaching
felt that the impact of this program was that she was able to
add more than £15 million to the organisation through the
interventions which she made possible.
- British Psychological Society. Selection and Development Review.
Vol 17.
Don’t take their
word for it!
The companies that spend the most
on targeted cognitive skills coaching for their workers would have
outperformed the overall stock market from 1997 to 2001. So says a
recent survey conducted by four researchers representing the
Federal Reserve Bank, Georgetown University, and Knowledge Asset
Management, a money management firm. According to the survey, the
companies that ranked in the top 20 percent in spending on
coaching and development would have earned an average of 16.2%,
annualized, in the last five years or 6.5 percentage points a year
higher than the Wilshire 5000 index.
Dr
Skiffington's invitational,
fast-tracked, 4 Day, Very
Small Group Certified
Master Coach Course (conducted in N.Y., London,
Sydney etc) meets the critical needs for business and
executive coaches to be trained and mentored in the use of
validated, reliable psychology-based tools and techniques to
provide measurable, significant ROI.
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Behavioral Coaching Institute.
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