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Business e-Coach |
by Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, 1000ventures.com
"Everyone has peak performance potential - you just need to know where they are coming from and meet them there"
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Why e-Coaching? To build sustainable competitive advantage for the new knowledge-driven economy and compete successfully in the rapidly changing marketplace, companies require coaching and learning support to be provided to all their key employees in a continuous and timely way. Responding to these needs, the first-ever online Business e-Coach has been developed and launched by 1000ventures.com in 2001. Key Benefits of Business e-Coaching
Unlocking Your True Potential As opposite to e-learning and e-mentoring courses that are built around a specific subject, e-coach focuses at the person and starts with unlocking his or her true potential. It helps clients to identify and define their specific goals, and then organize themselves to attain these goals. This innovative service was designed to meet the challenges of the new economy driven by knowledge-based enterprises that are characterized by flat hierarchical structures and employee empowerment. In these new enterprises, top managers delegate more power to employees and assume more leadership tasks. They also lead employees to lead themselves. Employee self-leadership has become the key to success in the new economy. Business e-coach helps these new leaders and self-leaders to grow though unlocking their true potential and releasing their inner power. Building Your Cross-Functional Excellence (more) In the new era of systemic innovation, it is more important for organizations and lead innovators to be cross-functionally excellent than functionally excellent. Forces operating outside your vertical industry position in one way or another have a major impact on your business. Despecialization, looking beyond the micro issues and achieving powerful synergies by integrating specialized skills and experiences will help you to lead a mission that encompasses a broad range of disciplines and functional capabilities. Business e-coach helps you to acquire knowledge related to different areas related to your business, understand the nature of their relationships and master a balanced business systems strategy based on this understanding. Enhancing Your Creative Thinking Capabilities While building your cross-functional excellence, business e-coach prompts you to look for wider solutions and "think beyond the box". It inspires creative ideas and enhances your creative thinking capabilities. Business e-coach helps you to break out of self-imposed limitations, abandon the step-by-step approach, think sideways and explore new directions. As opposite to vertical thinking, it facilitates lateral creative thinking which is very important in the new economy driven by change - continuous, rapid and complex, that generates uncertainty and requires fast innovative solutions. It also inspires creative solution for achieving business objectives through externalization - in collaboration with the full range of external forces. Just-in-Time (JIT) Coaching and Learning The best kind of quality oriented learning is just-in-time-style learning, that is, learning that happens on the job and knowledge which is applied immediately as needed. The sooner you can apply the material you learned, the better you will understand it and the longer it will be retained. Instead of developing large information reserves, JIT-style business e-coach helps its clients to acquire new knowledge that they can apply immediately, without suffering information overload. |
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