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Technology to bring performance coaching to the masses
Making Change Happen
| Northampton, UK
23-Aug-2006 » Training Press Releases » Performance and life coaching, precluded from reaching many people due to its high cost, is now set to reach the masses through My Performance Coach®, a revolutionary new performance coaching application.
Performance coaching in many organisations is only available to senior executives and for those consumers able to afford, relatively expensive, private coaches. In 2003 Nick Le Clére, with a team of experienced coaching and learning professionals, established Making Change Happen and began to develop its first computer-based performance coaching application, My Performance Coach®, which has BT amongst its early trial adopters.
Nick Le Clére, CEO, Making Change Happen, said: "Existing coaching methods are not scaleable for a large organisation, which prevents most workers from receiving the huge benefits that coaching can provide. Yet with performance improvement required in most working disciplines there is a clear need for a scaleable and replicable vehicle for coaching delivery. My Performance Coach® is the first in a series of computer-based performance coaching applications that we will be launching."
Research about the benefits that coaching provides compared with known inefficiencies in traditional organisational learning programs, such as the British Learning Association's findings that 72% of learning tends not to lead to change, suggests that coaching should have a much greater role in delivering performance improvement and organisational change. In the CIPD's 2006 Learning & Development Survey nearly three-quarters of respondents see the primary business driver for developing a coaching culture as improving individual or business performance. (Sources: British Learning Association; CIPD).
"Business transformation consultancies are reporting that their corporate clients want the formal support and injection of pace and focus at the front-end of change programmes, but that they also require a cost-effective coaching component to bed in change. This is a problem because high quality coaches are too expensive," added Nick Le Clére.
Recognising that many organisational change programmes fail to deliver their long-term goals, how can businesses really create the continuous improvement platforms necessary for 'full on' corporate transformation?
Leadership coach and business consultant Vic Luck says: "the power of coaching to transform organisational performance is widely recognised yet its application is limited to a small minority. My Performance Coach is a bold development to bring coaching to the majority".
Nick Le Clére: "previous technology-based attempts to provide performance solutions often have a singular dimension focused on completing processes and have been unable to motivate users into long-term usage. The lack of innovative approaches and staid, traditional learning methods has led to expensive, low-impact solutions unable to deliver the change anticipated."
My Performance Coach® is a new breed of next generation performance support technology, designed by experienced business transformation professionals, trainers, coaches and consultants to deliver immediate and long-term benefits in performance and well-being.
BT Wholesale is amongst My Performance Coach's® first customers and is undergoing a pilot to bring performance and life coaching to wider audiences than previously possible. Tim Springham, Senior Director of Operations Planning, BT Wholesale, said: "we take coaching very seriously and believe it can make a marked difference to performance. However, costs mean that we limit the deployment of coaching, we are hoping that the MPC pilot will prove a success and enable us to make coaching more widely available.''
A hosted version of My Performance Coach®, bringing the concept of computer-based performance coaching to consumer markets, is being introduced later in 2006.
Kim Hare, Director of Kaizen Training and one of the contributors to My Performance Coach®, added: "these days, the key predictor for high performance is the ability to master your energy and emotional well-being. MPC provides access to tools and techniques that help people to achieve more and improve their lives."
My Performance Coach® uses a wide spectrum of multi-media, multi-sensory content and collaboration tools to engage high-performers and subject-matter experts with learners: sharing their experiences, key messages and practices through a personal coaching chat format. Tools and techniques to help learners explore their current situations, decide on new courses of action, commit and engage with their goals and 'get resourceful' are at the heart of My Performance Coach®.
My Performance Coach® draws on many leading philosophies and concepts - such as that of the American Academic Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero's Journey' - creating a personal yet scalable journey of performance and well-being improvement for learners to use time and time again.
Notes to editors
For a demonstration of My Performance Coach® please visit www.makingchangehappen.com.
Nick Le Clére is available for media interview and photographs and imagery are available on request for media use.
For sales, partner and VAR queries please contact Debbie Rawlinson, debbie@makingchangehappen.com.
Notes to editors
For a demonstration of MyPerformanceCoach please visit www.makingchangehappen.com.
Nick Le Clére is available for media interview and photographs and imagery are available for media use.
For sales, partner and VAR queries please contact Debbie Rawlinson, debbie@makingchangehappen.com, or Nick Le Clère, nick@makingchangehappen.com
About Making Change Happen
Making Change Happen is a team of professional and experienced coaches and consultants who have developed an innovative and unique multi-media, multi-sensory coaching application 'My Performance Coach' (MPC). MPC emulates the key processes and methods of a top performance coach in four key themes; performance, change management, well-being and leadership. MPC is designed to connect values, beliefs, identities and purpose with organisational and individual goals by influencing the adoption of powerful mindsets and emotions that directly govern 'high performance' behaviours and results.
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