The ARG Business Mentoring and Executive Coach ‘in-Residence’ Programs

• A proven way in which to have executive coaching talent easily accessible and who build institutional knowledge with which to engage at the appropriate cultural level within the enterprise.
• Cost effective in that the executive Coach rate for a day is less than hourly and the add-on costs are amortised across many user.
• The regularity of the residency has a higher front-of-mind towards your talent engaging often with an executive Coach on a set basis thereby driving the focus and beneficial outcomes.
• Our experience shows that individual line-talent and executives utilise the Coach in the most effective way because they are on-site at a set time and the practice is accepted as just another supporting mechanism by the company towards their and the businesses success.
• Having an onsite executive Coach is an ‘open’ resource that can be tapped into to provide additional support around recruitment, talent management and staff development. The executive Coach comes to be recognised as one of the team but with specific soft skill expertise.
• Having a dedicated executive Coach onsite allows for ‘targeted coaching’, specific one-off short sessions with individuals to address very specific behavioral changes in response to immediate needs of the business parts they manage. Immediate intervention for a specific performance outcome is achieved.
• Many clients over time consider the executive Coach to be a part of the organisation, there is no down-time for HR wasted on briefing Coaches about your business, corporate goals and objectives.
• Executive Coaching applied in this manner more easily assimilates, in many cases becoming a beneficial part of the company culture quickly.
• Onsite executive Coaches can be invited to attend business meetings where their shadow role can be to observe all the participants and give them feedback throughout the meeting and after that debrief around improvements to style.
• Leaders at all levels can meet with the onsite executive Coach with challenges and questions. They may be minor or significant - quick bounce or in depth dive – whatever is needed for a break-through. It allows anyone in the organisation to get a flavor for the sample benefits of executive Coaching towards possible engagement around a specific issue that requires dedicated time and a program to work through outside of the residency service.

• Trained business-mentors who are former business leaders or senior executives provide a consistent mentoring approach, methodology and standards.
• Offering a business-mentor on a ‘in-residence’ basis emphasises the importance of on-going learning for your top leaders on whom the success of the business ultimately depends.
• Our business-mentors are equipped with the most detailed training based on a formal two-day course that marries their natural business ability with proven techniques to drive business performance. This is the highest current standard of methodology existing in Australia. We aim to protect your best people by only supporting them with our best.
• Having an ‘in-residence’ style business mentor is a relatively inexpensive standard setter that your most senior people in the organisation can refer to at a peer-to-peer basis outside of in-house politics.
• Professional business-mentors with wide business backgrounds and experience can help the organisation produce consistent internal standards amongst various executives.
• If deemed a benefit by individual executives the ‘in-residence’ arms-length business-mentor can be an informed conduit to other mentors or coaches where a one-on-one engagement is available under company policy and directly for the leadership team.
• Being ‘in-residence’ allows the business-mentor to become much more familiar with the characteristics, culture and performance standards of the organisation than he or she might otherwise would if they were a private mentor to one person.
• From our experience, all ‘in-residence’ style mentors are a valuable on-going resource during periods of rapid or severe change, when organisations and people within them sometimes lose perspective and direction - especially if the change is not one normally encountered by the organisation. internally
• Providing a business-mentor on-hand on a regular or semi-constant basis, oers the businesses executives an objective view of the changing situation with experienced eyes without being drawn into the emotional (or political) turmoil. This is a particularly valuable resource, especially to the CEO and board who will want to get back to ordered normality as soon as possible.
• The current economic climate may well induce a number of retirements, redundancies and other separations of people from organisations. A business-mentor with the experience level we oer can assist those going through that process as well as assist the organisation to prioritise the options for changes that those departures bring. This might be cheaper for the organisation than paying big fees to a disinterested external consultant to execute.

Good executive coaches impart formal knowledge that enhance skills and capabilities within a planned program of development. Focused coaching also motivates towards achievements in and around the executive role so that the tactical elements of planning are realised more fully through improved leadership capability.

Good business-mentors focus executive thinking and ability by sharing tacit knowledge. Business-mentors provide a sounding-board for robust strategic thinking. The exchange of experiential outcomes in and around various scenarios guide the executive to self-realisation and well constructed action. We insist on knowledge transfer; we avoid doing your job-by-proxy or creating dependency.