FAQs about coaching

1. What is Balentor?

Balentor Oy is a coaching and consulting company which was founded in 1993. It has carried out over a thousand challenging long-term development programs with leading companies. Balentor connects strategy and people in a profitable and insightful way. For several years, Balentor has received the Dunn & Bradstreet AAA-credit rating.

Our versatile team of experts with strong practical knowledge is a clear strength for us. Our staff consists of professionals from different fields, such as business, technology, psychology, law and coaching science.

2. What is Balentor’s business coaching like?

Balentor’s coaching is long-lasting, people-oriented and strategic. Our idea is that genuine organisational changes can not be achieved with single and random lectures. Our coaching is based on long-lasting, systematic and result-oriented co-operation, committed to the customer.

Balentor’s Sense Making coaching speaks to people. Good coaching reforms organisation’s strategy, systems and policy. However, a good frame alone is not always enough: real lasting results can be achieved only by increasing understanding on each level of the organisation. Our sense-making and understandable way to communicate inspire people to participate. The goal of our coaching is to help people to understand their part in the organisation’s plot, and help them to do the right things.

Balentor’s coaching creates results. Genuine results are made only by actions that are guided by understanding. The mission of our coaching is to bring people to analyse their own action, so that it guides to purposeful development. For this, one needs support, encouragement and enthusiasm. When people realise their own role and the meaning of their actions, they start to do the right things. This boosts up the action of the organisations, and real results are achieved.

Balentor’s coaching works two-ways, as good leadership does. Just by announcing the strategy one-way, cannot alone get people to act according to its goals. Our coaching is based on genuine interaction, which creates a basis for good results: it generates openness, trust and creates a sense of security. This inspires and encourages people to think and act, and arises a desire to participate.

3. Why are business training sessions often disappointed with?

Even good coaching, that just remains too shallow or is arranged at the wrong time, can mislead people and even do severe damage to the organisation. People tend to grab on trendy isms, of which vagueness and detachment however cause confusion in the work community.

This is why choosing a business coaching partner is a truly strategic decision. Why to choose a partner that only confuses people, when it is possible to gain great advantage from a co-operation with a partner genuinely committed to its customers’ results and strategy?

4. What is a typical Balentor’s business coaching program like?

Our typical coaching program lasts for 6 to 18 months. Our coaching program always begins with a definitive interview where we define the beginning situation, progression and goals for the program.

A coaching program combines collective coaching sessions, sparring sessions for small groups or individuals and guidance group meetings, where we evaluate the progression of our coaching program.

5. What does Balentor’s coaching develop?

Balentor’s business coaching programs concentrate on customers’ business key points. With coaching, one can develop for example leadership skills, sales, customer service, project know-how, management committee working and teamwork.

Our Insightful evaluation services concentrate on value-creating personnel and customer surveys and 360 degree leadership assessments. Additionally, we offer various management and development supporting tools and systems for our customers to gain benefit from.

6. Who Balentor’s coaching suites?

Our business coaching programs suite companies and organizations that are seeking for growth, development or are confronting some kind of change.

We have a vast experience from challenging and large development projects with leading companies in their business fields. Together with our customers, we have executed over a thousand long-lasting coaching programs. Read more about out accomplishments with our customers from our website.

7. What customer gets from Balentor?

From Balentor, the customer will get a sense-making and long-standing partner, which is committed to gaining results. Our goal is to achieve permanent results in our customer organisations by increasing people’s internal enthusiasm and weekday courage.

8. What do we do differently than others?

We believe that desired permanent changes cannot be reached with occasional and shallow training lectures. Balentor’s result-oriented coaching together with sense-making approach creates enthusiasm and gets people to desire real growth. As people develop, they start to have the courage to set also challenging goals for their own actions.

9. Why is business coaching needed?

Business coaching brings solutions when…

Strategy is vague and distant
There is a need, desire or pressure for growth in the organisation
Business needs clarifying and developing
People are exhausted and passive
Attitudes prevent success
The leadership is somehow not making a connection with people
Competitive advantages are not clear
“The business forest can not be seen from the trees”
There is a beneficial opportunity on the market that has not yet been taken advantage of

10. What does Sense Making mean?

People don’t get exhausted because of their tasks or their too big workload. They become exhausted when they don’t know, what is expected from them. When an employee understands, where the organisation is going to, and realises the meaning of his/her work in the big picture, he/she starts to feel well. In that case, the employee also does his/her best. And more results are generated. This can happen in organisations using sense making management, where things are given clear reasons.

The goal of Sense Making activities is that the organisation can concentrate on what’s relevant. The way of doing things in a Sense Making way can be brought to sales, customer relations as well as leadership. Sense Making is not a separate thing from the business, but like glue that holds things together.

The business coach creates Sense Making attitude to the organisation by simplifying and, if necessary, questioning ideas and actions. The coach can do this only by getting to know the organisation’s present state and goals.

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FAQs about coaching