GROUP COACHING
Learning from others
There’s an incredible energy and collective wisdom found in group coaching that’s different from individual sessions, and one that the lonely long-distance runner that is often the entrepreneur can benefit from. A group of your peers can help you set the pace, occasionally allow you to slipstream and generally make life easier for you.
You learn from your peers; your industry or other industries and it encourages collaboration.
Going through the coaching journey in a group means more than merely the act of coaching and being coached. It’s about the connection, communication, and community that this brings to the table. This is where the magic happens. Through the transferred energy of group interaction, and the immediate access to the insights, feedback and experience of a group of your peers, you will kickstart the process of learning and transformation.
It gets you to focus on strategic thinking.
Honing the skills necessary for effective strategic thinking is imperative in your journey as an entrepreneur and leader and will be addressed in group sessions. Strategic thinking will help you to create a business strategy that is unifying and rational and creates a usable framework for decisions related to using your resources effectively and in deciding the direction of your business. The five attributes of strategic thinkers include understanding your place in the market; focusing on the goal; understanding past, present, and future events; asking the right questions; and identifying opportunities. These skills support innovative thinking and lead to business growth.
Brainstorming and generating ideas as a group is still one of the most effective ways to challenge the limits of your own thinking, and leaves you open to novel insights and solutions from others. This is why we encourage and value group coaching sessions as an indispensable tool for business development and growth in leadership.
Working within a group will also prepare you for the actual dynamics of the collaborative nature of modern business and build transferable skills that will come in handy in your race to the finish. It takes sensitivity and emotional intelligence to navigate group dynamics and benefit from the experience. Emotional intelligence has as much to do with knowing when and how to express emotion as it does with controlling it – the ability to manage feelings and handle stress is an aspect of emotional intelligence that predicts long-term success, and one that is transferable in the workplace.
An owner or entrepreneur that has honed their abilities and skills through group coaching sessions, is able to engage in deeper systems analysis and employ their transferable problem-solving and decision-making skills closer to home. The lessons learned in peer-to-peer group coaching sessions can have an invaluable long-term impact on management skills and allow you to lead through change.
What to expect from the group coaching process
- Group coaching is designed to teach knowledge and skills to individuals of similar proficiencies where specific training and development is required – for instance financial understanding in running a business.
- Group coaching will focus on the fundamentals of running a business. The coaching progresses as the group progresses in confidence, knowledge, implementation and learning from actions.
- Specific topics identified from a GAP analysis will be taught and passed on to the group, in order to build competence and confidence.
- This builds a community that can leverage best practices and support one another.
- This type of coaching is affordable as a more productive, practical tool that addresses a specific need within a dedicated group.
- This coaching is usually over a short to medium term.
- Ideally a post implementation review (PIR) should be done a short time after the group coaching sessions, in order to assess skills.
Testimonials
“Focus. Direction. Continued Dynamic Team-Support”
Claude and CICC have proven invaluable with regards business support, development & growth.
As a small business having to navigate the ever-increasing challenges that current-day South Africa
presents, CICC’s steady guidance, reassurance, and bottom-up support is tops, not only as a business coach,
but also a life coach, a mentor and a friend.
Claude is an integral part of our Team. He shares our vision and passion to succeed.
He is part of our Circle to Change!”
"I call Claude from CICC my Guru, as he adds so much value to my career and decision making. I have taken over a manufacturing plant in the past two years and would not have had the confidence to scale my business without Claude’s
coaching and direction. It’s hard work but we all need a push when we can get quite isolated running our businesses. I’m grateful to have
all the network opportunities that CICC also provided for me in the past two years"
"Claude Morris has changed the ways I view my business, not just showing me
new opportunities but also how to engage them and thrive.
He is hands on with his approach, from his understanding of me as a person
to the targeting, planning and outcome of every part of my business.
So now my goals are more attainable and I have learned how to plan long term
on multiple levels without being overstretched.
I recommended his business coaching to all my colleagues and friends because
I want to be surrounded by good business all round."
“After decades of working as a writer and editor, I blindly launched an online magazine and publishing company. After flailing about for 12 months, I committed to weekly business coaching sessions with Claude Morris. Our first few sessions were spent working on cleaning up spreadsheets, creating project plans and working on a strategy for Twyg. After the basics were put in place, Claude started asking the hard question... how are you sustaining your business? Two years on and we continue to answer that question. Without Claude, I'm 100% sure Twyg would no longer exist. His commitment, firmness and kindness has kept us on the straight and narrow, and has kept us growing.”
“Working with Mr Morris has been an incredibly eye opening experience. There are many areas and angles that an objective observer can highlight, helping to optimize one's performance.
No matter how disciplined - having a sense of accountability pushes one's ability to achieve to another level.
Working in an industry like mine - one often surrenders to chaos and panic.
Having sessions with Claude has kept me not only focused but also sane.
I have achieved deadlines I never thought were possible and gained a deeper understanding of the importance of prioritizing.Just like every Pro Athlete - Every entrepreneur should assure to have an adviser, and performance optimizing coach such as Claude. To scale, to regroup, to explore possibilities... to thrive.”
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Group coaching requires a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8 clients, and they must be in the same business cycle in their respective businesses in order to benefit.
We facilitate and guide you to FOCUS on your current challenges and opportunities in the “now”. This process is less strategic and more transactional, meaning that we learn from one another, and less transformational.
Through our group coaching journey, we will focus on the following:
People
People are your greatest asset, and it is important to gather the best team around you. We will look at how to:
- Attract, develop, align and retain your team members.
- Build a healthy organisational culture with a shared vision.
- Improve leadership.
- Creating brand awareness
- Building communication channels that speak to your target audience/clients.
- How to achieve impact/leads, conversion and a measurable return on investment.
- Define your client/buyer in order to better target them.
- Tell your story in an engaging way.
- Develop and follow a sales plan.
If you need to upgrade your business toolbox, reach out to our coaches
FAQ
This depends on your goals and objectives that you wish to achieve. The process can be really cost effective by collaborating within your peer group.
A minimum of 1 to 1½ hours per week or every 2nd week.
- You learn from your peers within your industry or other industries and it encourages collaboration.
- It gets you to focus on strategic thinking.
- It inspires creative thinking and encourages brainstorming with peers
- Develops emotional intelligence.