SERVICES: ORGANISATIONAL
Whether you are needing to engage individual coaching for yourself or your staff, training, facilitation or consultancy services, Iolite has skilled people able to provide you with the assistance you are looking for.
1. INDIVIDUAL COACHING SERVICES:
• Career Coaching
• Leadership / Management Coaching
• Life Coaching
• Myers-Briggs Personality Profiling: (complete with MBTI logo)
• External Professional Supervision
• Increasing Individual’s Performance
• On-site at time of announcement
• Outplacement and Career Transition Programmes
• Staff Professional Development
2. TRAINING SERVICES:
• Personal Resilience Workshops
• Career Development Workshops
• Career Planning Workshops
• Change Management Workshops for Managers and Staff
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® MBTI Workshops
• Outplacement and Career Transition Programmes
• Stress Management Workshops
• Team Development / Performance Workshops
• Team Management Services ® Profiling Workshops
3. FACILITATION SERVICES:
4. CONSULTANCY SERVICES:
INDIVIDUAL COACHING SERVICES:
Career Coaching:
Opportunity, disappointment, frustration, fulfilment, headaches and rewards – these seem to be common ingredients for most careers. This personalised service puts more of the control over your career back in your hands, whatever your situation.
Mapping out your future direction can sometimes feel like charting your way through fog. You may be returning to work or in a time of transition as a result of redundancy or organisational restructure. Perhaps you are seeking a portfolio career, or a way of transitioning into retirement. Or perhaps you feel trapped doing what you’ve always done.
Whatever the case, Iolite’s partnership approach will assist you in determining and then pursuing your career direction.
Effective career management begins with understanding yourself. Iolite offers a variety of career assessment tools designed to help you really understand and articulate your key skills, work interests and values. This ranges from well known tools such as Myers-Briggs personality profiling through to more customised tools for identifying core skills, interests and values, and and understanding key influences on your career and career decision-making.
Which skills do you wish you could use the most? Which skills would you most like to develop? And which skills do you wish you didn’t need at all? Are you passionate about certain industries or sectors? What are your career values and how do you get these values met within your world of work? What are your lifestyle needs and priorities? Effectively answering questions such as these will help equip you with the tools you need to identify your options, develop an action plan and to make informed and meaningful career decisions.
Employment coaching may be the next step in your career management process and our career coaches will also work with you on effective self-marketing to secure that next role. This can range from developing an effective CV and understanding the latest in interview techniques through to developing job search techniques to help you find that next role and then successfully navigating the interview process once you’ve found it.
Leadership / Management Coaching:
This is a personalised coaching service specifically designed for people who are new to executive, management, team leadership and supervisory roles. We also offer coaching for existing managers and leaders who want to reflect on their roles and improve their leadership skills. In conjunction with the coaching service our team will often make profiling tools such as Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or Team Management Systems (TMS) available as part of the programme. These tools can also be of great value in identifying the various strengths and challenges inherent in our natural leadership styles.
Life Coaching:
Life coaching provides an opportunity for individuals to take time to reflect on chosen aspects of their lives - exploring options for growth and development and mapping a pathway to achieving desired goals. It’s a supportive, facilitated process and a highly personalised service.
Myers-Briggs Personality Profiling:
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a psychological personality profiling tool designed to help you understand yourself, your motivations, your natural strengths, and your potential areas for growth.
One of the most popular and recognised profiling tools in the world, it is used effectively to help individuals:
• understand themselves
• manage their stress
• develop their emotional intelligence (EQ)
• identify their preferred coaching and leadership style
• enhance their communication style
• identify how they are most likely to function within organisational and team settings by focusing on how they contribute to the organisation in line with their preferred leadership styles, learning styles, problem-solving approaches, and work environments. It also raises awareness of potential pitfalls and suggestions for development.
Although we often recommend using Myers-Briggs as an ideal complement alongside our other services, the Iolite team can also provide Myers-Briggs as a stand alone service. MBTI is arguably the most widely used personality assessment in the world today.
External Professional Supervision:
This service is based on a dynamic partnership between the coach and the individual that’s designed to maximise both professional and personal growth. This service is commonly used by workplaces interested in developing leaders at all levels of the organisation.
Whether you are dealing with members of the public, or you are a team leader or manager within your organisation, this service is for you. Professional supervision gives you regular time to reflect on how you do your job, build on your vision and take time for forward planning.
It’s an opportunity to examine what’s working well and what isn’t working as good as it could be. The supervisor will assist you to explore alternative ways of thinking, process what is currently happening and identify valuable learning opportunities in a safe, confidential and supportive environment that enables people to practically and successfully integrate new learnings into both their personal and professional life.
Working with a supervisor who is outside your own work context offers a distinct advantage by giving access to an impartial, outside perspective free of any of the associated politics, hierarchies and assumptions or preconceptions of your current environment. Supervision always offers a fresh perspective on your situation – one you cannot get yourself. An invaluable tool for managers and leaders at any level.
Increasing Individual’s Performance:
Poorly performing individuals are an enormous drain on an organisation’s resources – a truth that’s most acutely felt by their own direct managers and team-mates. Before heading down the expensive and time consuming performance management track, consider enlisting Iolite’s help. There can be any number of reasons contributing to a person’s poor performance. One-on-one career coaching to help identify these issues and assist individuals to determine a positive way forward that may save your organisation significant time and money – bringing a much more efficient resolution to the previous drain of precious resources.
The Iolite team are perfectly skilled to help clients identify and then address any hindrance to effective performance. In the rare cases where these issues cannot be managed effectively, our outplacement and career coaching services can also help individuals develop a better understanding of the fit for the role and identify potential opportunities that may be better suited to their abilities and passions.
On-site at time of announcement:
A service designed to support individuals at the time of organisational change announcements. We are able to provide professional support people who can be present with staff during, and immediately following significant announcements. These professionals are able to offer direct, immediate support on the spot as well as help refer individuals to appropriate additional services following the event.
Outplacement and Career Transition Programmes:
This is the ideal service to draw on in instances where individuals’ positions are being disestablished or significantly impacted in other ways as a consequence of restructuring, down-sizing, technological change, or other changes in an organisation’s business model.
Iolite’s outplacement and career transition services are customised to suit client’s needs. They are extremely effective in assisting individuals to identify and transition into new employment roles and opportunities.
Depending on the situation and the environment of each workplace, these programmes may include: dealing with transition, personality profiling, career assessment exercises, and also support coaching for transitioning to self-employment, retirement, and alternative employment opportunities (including CV preparation, interview skills and job search strategies).
These services can be delivered as either workshops or one-on-one programmes.
Staff Professional Development:
Providing professional development for staff is integral to keeping your staff motivated, enthusiastic and high-performing members in your organisation.
Professional development can be provided in a number of ways, depending on what will best suit each individual’s needs:
• Regular professional supervision which is an excellent learning and development opportunity;
• Developing a career management plan - identifying goals, skill/knowledge gaps, and a framework for meeting identified development needs;
Managerial Development Coaching – a service designed for extremely capable individuals who have been appointed to management roles based on their technical ability, but who lack the skill and experience leading and managing individuals and/or teams.
TRAINING:
Personal Resilience Workshops:
These workshops are designed to provide participants with a practical model of resilience that they can put into practice during those times of change and adversity that can pop up in any area of life. As part of the workshops, participants will also learn which factors lower and which factors strengthen resilience – and develop strategies to address the former and build on the latter.
Each participant will leave these workshops with an action plan that will help consolidate learning and serve as a detailed guide when it comes time to put these strategies into practice.
Career Development Workshops:
Tailored to the needs of your organisation, these workshops are designed to equip people with the tools to effectively manage their careers by exploring career development from a variety of perspectives. Topics may include matching employees’ values and skills, interests and ideas with the opportunities that the organisation may be able to provide.
Engaging in career development services will also help organisations to:
• Increase staff engagement and productivity
• Identify the next steps individuals may want take within the organization
• Identify the best fit between individuals and any current or potential roles
Although this service is offered here in the form of workshops, it can also be delivered through individual coaching.
Career Planning Workshops:
These workshops offer professional assistance for managers to help formulate individual and organisational career development plans that are developed in line with the strategic direction of the organisation.
This service can also be delivered as individual coaching or in a workshop format.
Change Management Workshops:
FOR MANAGERS:
These workshops are designed to align with an organisation’s strategic direction and goals. Their focus is to equip managers to effectively lead their organisation, and their own staff, through change.
The workshops are designed to assist managers to identify key factors that affect morale, satisfaction, and productivity during change and then to assist leaders to develop strategies to effectively manage these factors while still looking after themselves.
Change processes are some of the most stressful workplace experiences – both for those leading them and those affected by them. These workshops will help individuals and organisations navigate seasons of change in a way that is both more effective and more sustainable for all.
FOR STAFF:
These workshops are specifically designed to assist staff to positively manage their roles and responsibilities during periods of organisational change. They will help raise awareness of self-care practices and encourage people to take responsibility for their own response to the situation. As this occurs they are often able to identify previously unseen opportunities in the change process and begin charting their own course once again.
These workshops are designed to help people approach seasons of change, whether favourable or unfavourable, from a position of empowerment and self-responsibility rather than dependence and blame.
Myers-Briggs Workshops:
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) is a psychological personality profiling tool designed to help you understand yourself, your motivations, your natural strengths, and your potential areas for growth. One of the most popular and recognised profiling tools in the world, it is used effectively to help individuals:
• understand themselves
• manage their stress
• develop their emotional intelligence (EQ)
• identify their preferred coaching and leadership style
• enhance their communication style
• identify how they are most likely to function within organisational and team settings by focusing on how they contribute to the organisation in line with their preferred leadership styles, learning styles, problem-solving approaches, and work environments. It also raises awareness of potential pitfalls and suggestions for development.
MBTI is arguably the most widely used personality assessment in the world today
Outplacement and Career Transition Programmes:
This is the ideal service to draw on in instances where individuals’ positions are being disestablished or significantly impacted in other ways as a consequence of restructuring, down-sizing, technological change, or other changes in an organisation’s business model.
Iolite’s outplacement and career transition services are customised to suit clients’ needs. They are extremely effective in assisting individuals to identify and transition into new employment roles and opportunities.
Depending on the situation and the environment of each workplace, these programmes may include: dealing with transition, personality profiling, career assessment exercises, and also support coaching for transitioning to self-employment, retirement, and alternative employment opportunities (including CV preparation, interview skills and job search strategies).
These services can also be delivered as either workshops or one-on-one programmes.
Stress Management Workshops:
Through these workshops individuals will develop an understanding of the nature of stress and the way it affects them individually. They will also learn to develop strategies to cope with stress and identify possible methods for isolating, minimising and eliminating stress in the workplace.
This workshop also includes the option of incorporating a section on personality type preferences. This can be an extremely useful to build understanding about how individual personality preferences contribute to how different members of a team respond to stress in different ways. Teams working together with this level of awareness are typically much more resilient and continue to function much more productively during challenging seasons.
These workshops, and the tools they offer, help cultivate a sustainable work environment even during those tough seasons.
Team Development / Performance Workshops:
Designed to assist teams in fostering openness and trust, these workshops create a neutral, affirming environment within which teams are enable to discuss differences, explore diversity, and increase their collective ability to work to the complementary strengths and differences within the team.
As a result, teams are immediately able to increase productivity by aligning the required tasks and responsibilities with particular preferences and strengths within the team. They also generate the ability to identify team assets and blind spots.
These workshops cover issues relating to communication, team culture, leadership, change, problem solving/conflict resolution and stress. These workshops also include either the MBTI or TMS profiling tools.
Team Management Profiling Workshops:
Team Management Profiles provide individuals and teams with an understanding of their work preferences. Identifying work preferences is a critical component in developing individual, team and organisational performance. Team profiles are developed from combined individual assessments using a 60-question assessment tool, focused on enhancing a team’s understanding of each individual's work approach and preferences, and how these come together in a team environment.
Based on responses to the profile questionnaire, the personal Team Management Profile provides constructive, work-based information outlining an individual's work preferences and the strengths that each individual brings to a team.
Work preferences are explored in terms of:
• How each team member prefers to relate to others
• How each person gathers and uses information
• How each individual makes decisions
• How each person organises themselves and others
The personal Team Management Profile highlights primary and secondary work preferences, including information about each individual’s leadership strengths, decision-making style, interpersonal skills and inherent teambuilding strengths.
FACILITATION SERVICES:
Iolite offers a number of skilled facilitators who are available to work with teams and facilitate team/group discussions and decision-making. They specialise in strategic planning, workforce planning, and organisational service review processes and discussions.
CONSULTANCY SERVICES:
Iolite offers a number of skilled consultants who are available to work with managers and / or teams. They specialise in HR policy development and Health & Safety policy development.
