Sage Portfolio Group has assembled a group of highly trained, highly skilled executive coaches, business coaches, and sales coaches who follow professional ethics guidelines and are certified through The International Coach Federation. The International Coach Federation credentials coaches from many different coaching schools and requires that high standards be kept in the industry. Sage Portfolio Group does not hire uncertified coaches. Our executive coaching, business coaching, and sales coaching is delivered by certified professional coaches who have completed coach specific training with an acceptable school, are International Coach Federation certified, and have outstanding real life experience in their field of expertise as well as meeting the high standard Sage Portfolio Group holds for its coaches.

Our coaches strive to provide the highest possible standards for our customers. In a coaching session, executive coaching, business coaching, and sales coaching clients can expect to be supported, challenged and to sometimes experience a dramatic shift in perspective. Clients can expect the coach to hold them accountable to move from words and feelings to actions, and can expect to see change happening in their lives. The coach counts on the client to be a coactive participant in the process. We can’t do your work for you, but we can help you be more effective as you do it.

In a coaching session the client can expect to be supported, to be challenged and to sometimes experience a dramatic shift in perspective. The client can expect the coach to hold them accountable to move into action and can expect to see change happening in their life. The coach counts on the client to be a coactive participant in the process.

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Executive Coaching

Executive coaching is used in organizations to develop strong leaders and to support team members so that their potential can be maximized. CEOs use coaches who can be a sounding board and can help them to implement well thought out decisions grounded in solid values. Executives coaches help clients move to the next level and to navigate tough political environments gracefully. Executive Coaching is a powerful tool for executives. It can be used for a new hire to navigate the beginning stages of a new position or new company. The first months on the job for an executive can set up how his or her entire career develops. Executive Coaching can give the new hire added insurance to excel.

Most of our executive coaches, business coaches, and sales coaches meet with their clients by telephone (although in person sessions are available in some cases). Sessions with our coaches range from 30 minutes to 1 hour—depending on the client’s schedule and needs. Clients may work with a coach for a brief period to accomplish a specific goal–usually not less than three months—or, as is more often the case, work with a coach on a longer-term, ongoing basis with varying intensity in frequency and duration of sessions.

“The biggest areas [they] helped me with in my career are being more strategic, teaching me the tools to develop my direct reports, and helping me create a clearer direction for myself and my team. I have never felt such a great sense of fulfillment before…” – MM-Director of Enterprise Resource Systems, Customer of Executive Coaching

“Working with Sage Portfolio Group has been one of the best decisions I have ever made, period. I am continually blown away by the talent, breadth and integrity of their team. If you are looking to go to the next level…then look no further!” KB—CEO, Assemblage Pointe, Customer of Executive Coaching.

"Without coaching I don't know how anyone can be successful without compromising their values. After coaching I have an outrageously successful business that is aligned with my values and fulfillment." – VP Product Development and Clinical Research, East West Essentials, Customer of Executive Coaching

Coaching Gym

It’s not your typical huff-and-puff, gym-shorts and yoga-gear workout. But businesses wanting their employees to get – and stay – in great personal and professional shape are increasingly turning to “coaching gym” programs, a recent addition to the suite of services offered by certified business coaches.

Employees who join a coaching gym are more likely to lift a telephone handset than lift weights. But some aspects of a typical gym membership do apply. Monthly fees usually provide unlimited access to services. Professional staff help participants set goals, remain motivated, problem-solve and practice new skills. A range of choices are available from which participants can build a customized program. And pretty much anyone can afford to join.

Sage Portfolio Group has found its coaching gym program has appeal to corporations that wish to expand the number of employees eligible for coaching support. While Executive Coaching is generally too expensive to offer to middle and entry level employees, these employees have a huge impact on the day-to-day operation of any business and they may someday join your leadership team. Coaching gym programs allow a company to include a more diverse group in the typically elite circle of those who can benefit from coaching.

Executive coaches and those who have participated in Sage Portfolio Group’s leadership or team development training also find coaching gyms an effective way to refine and practice their new-found skills. Research confirms that training, followed up with coaching, is much more effective than training alone. A 1997 study by Olivero, Bane and Kopelmann concluded that a three-day interactive training program on management competencies followed by eight weeks of follow-up coaching increased productivity by an astonishing 88%. It concluded that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%.

Sage Portfolio Group’s coaching gym clients are invited to spontaneously phone their coach anytime during daily “gym hours”, but for those who prefer the predictability of a scheduled session, pre-booked sessions are welcomed. Coaching gym calls generally last between ten and twenty minutes. To maximize efficiency and outcomes, a technique called laser coaching is used to help the client precisely identify the challenge or opportunity and quickly move to next steps or actions.

In order to make coaching gym programs sustainable, an employer must be convinced that the coaching is making a concrete difference in employee morale, retention, and productivity. Sage Portfolio Group coaches, for example, ensure that coaching sessions support the norms and culture of the specific organization the employee works for. Thus personal growth for the employee is reflected in enhanced professional performance.

For information about Sage Portfolio Group executive coaching, business coaching, sales coaching or coaching gym, click here or phone 1-800-592-2303 for more information.