The organizational world has changed, whether corporate, public, not-for-profit or education. Managing used to be about pushing individuals towards success. Leading is about pulling individuals towards success and achieving outstanding results.
Our results orientated coaching and mediation service assists you and your team members to build on and enhance the skills you already possess and develop other skills required to attain organizational results.
If you want to see the strengths that you or your team members already possess enhanced;
If you want you or your employees to achieve outstanding results;
If you want to turn dysfunctional relationships into collaborative goal achieving relationships;
If you want to improve the actions, habits and skills of you or your team members;
Outlines how the HR Directorate of a multinational manufacturer of leading label household and personal care products worked with Ruth to attain initial Senior Management buy-in and support for initiating a coaching program designed to facilitate organizational growth. It also outlines some of the findings of the evaluation performed by Ruth at the end of the initial pilot program. Download (PDF format, 552KB)
Outlines how one HR Director understood and began working with Ruth
Garrett to create a coaching culture within the organization. As well
as creating a culture where employees, including management, took a
more pro-active approach to eliminating the threat of Health and Safety
litigation. Download (PDF format, 656KB)
A 2008 program evaluation showed Coaching and Action Learning were the
main contributors to the successful implementation of a key
governmental educational reform. Download (PDF format, 480KB)
E-mentoring/coaching now stands in its own right as a different kind of development process from face-to-face mentoring/coaching. This trend will continue as more programs will use it, not as a poor relation, but for its advantages such as: of being time and space independent, offering the time for reflection for both the mentee/coachee and the mentor/coach; being a vehicle for creating a more level playing field with respect to power and retaining a permanent electronic record for subsequent analysis and reflection. Download (PDF format, 484KB)
Presents a view on why and how to set and achieve goals, and creating what you want in life. It also talks about some of the barriers to success and how to overcome them. Download (PDf format, 544KB)
A recent study shows that there is a correlation between coaching and attaining organizational goals. It also expresses the need for clarity of purpose and evaluating any and all coaching initiatives. Download (PDf format, 557KB)
A key to successfully attaining our professional and personal outcomes and goals is to remember that: Realizing our own desired outcomes and goals, while creating and sustaining strong relationships, comes from considering the views of everyone involved and through the creation of mutually acceptable and beneficial outcomes and goals for all concerned. Download (PDF format, 659KB)
We are living in what some call unprecedented times. However, that doesn’t mean that what characterizes great leadership is unprecedented. There is a great plethora of advice on how to survive in the current economic climate. However, whether the economy is progressing, recessing or trundling along at zero percent growth effective leadership and management should look, feel and sound the same. Download (PDF format, 291KB)
The latest figures available from Statistics Canada (2005) which don’t include the breakdown of cohabitating couples put the risk of divorce by the 30th wedding anniversary at 38% for the country as a whole—ranging from 17% in Newfoundland and 50% in Quebec. If we were to include the breakdown of long-term cohabitation relationships that figure would probably be closer to the 50% figure that gets bandied about. Download (PDF format, 665KB)