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Kids coaching is specific to children aged between the ages of 7 and 17. Children are equipped to focus on a range of areas they may currently be struggling with.

These may include (but are not limited to):

• Focusing on and setting age appropriate goals for themselves


• Understanding and adjusting their feelings toward failure – learning and growing in the face of adversity


• Communicating more effectively


• Building self-esteem and confidence


• Coping in situations where they are experiencing bullying

Working with a coach will enable children to cope and operate more effectively in all aspects of their lives.

Life coaching is for all adults (18+). It will empower you to clarify the areas in your life in which you’d like to grow. It looks to empower you to clarify the areas in your life in which you would like to grow. Life coaching is a more general approach and our coaches can assist you with a wide range of challenges you may be experiencing.

Such areas may include, but not be limited to:

• Transitions in your personal life


• Gaining confidence


• Social life and Relationships


• Financial


• Spiritual


• Emotional


• Mental


• Safety and security


• Physical

Working with a life coach, you will be able to establish and reset priorities and meet and exceed goals in all aspects of your life.

Entrepreneurial Coaching is ideal for the individual who is committed to creating a thriving, successful business. The focus includes, but is not limited to:

• How to get started as an entrepreneur


• Exploring where your business is at currently and what to do next


• Evaluating what is working and what is not working


• Determining your business goals


• Creating specific business-related action plans

Working with an entrepreneurial coach will better equip you to build and become more successful in your business venture.

Business or corporate coaching is meant for any individual in an organization who recognizes that in order to succeed in their current work environment, certain behavioral changes are required.

In this scenario, the coach will facilitate the desired change by giving direct behavior-based feedback, creating opportunities for change and foster accountability.

This type of coaching has the goal of creating measurable behavioral change in the individual or collection of individuals (the team) that results in increased individual and organizational performance.

Executive coaching is specifically aimed at developing individuals at an executive level in an organization.

In this form of coaching, the coach supports the executive in achieving specific strategic business objectives by providing guidance based on the coach's understanding of behavioral science. The coach’s role is not to advise the executive on how to achieve success, but to ask questions through which the client him/herself finds the solution for their own objectives.

This type of coaching has the goal of stimulating the executives thought process in order to look at situations differently and to find alternative solutions they may not have consciously considered before.

Relationship Coaching is a style of coaching which involves one of our coaches helping you to enhance your personal relationships with others, either in your personal or professional environment.

This form of coaching will guide a person to set relationship goals and will help them to develop competencies and a plan of action for improving their relationships with others.

This form of coaching will include, but not limited to:

• Improving relationship with a spouse


• Family relationships


• Improving relationship with a colleague


• Improving relationship with a manager

• PPA: The Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) provides rapid and deep insights into your behavioural preferences and communication style.

• TEIQue: The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) provides information and guidance which can help you to become more aware of your emotional intelligence. It provides a basis for development and training activities. The TEIQue measures our understanding of ourselves and of other people, and our ability to use this knowledge to achieve our goals.


• BTI: The Basic Traits Inventory (BTI) is a South African-developed personality inventory that measures differences in personality traits. It is based on the Big Five factors of personality. It provides information about what makes the you unique in how you think, feel, and interact with others.

• GIA: The General Intelligence Assessments (GIA) provides information about your ability to quickly and accurately learn new information. During this timed assessment, five different abilities will be assessed (spatial, verbal, numerical, perceptual, reasoning).


• DAT: The Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT) measures the cognitive ability of individuals 18 years and younger. There are 9 different subtests measuring: vocabulary, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, calculations, reading comprehension, comparison, spatial visualisation, mechanical insight, memory.

• STRONG: The Strong Interest Inventory® instrument is a powerful tool that can help you make satisfying decisions about your career and education. Whether you are just starting out in your career, thinking about a change, or considering education options for career preparation, you can benefit from the wealth of information reflected in your Strong results.


• MCM: The MCM divides the world of work into 19 career categories. In completing the questionnaire, you will be asked to rate your interests (career preferences) and your confidence or ability to succeed in certain careers.

• Lense VQ: The Lense VQ has been designed to measure your worldview. Worldviews can best be described as the basic drivers or needs that inform our everyday existence. Worldviews influence what we deem to be important in our lives as well as how we set out to achieve our goals that are important to us. It relates to our values, our motivations and mostly by what we define our existence.

The guidance given to students between the ages of 13 and 18 years to make specific decisions (for example: choose specific subjects or courses) that will direct them towards a specific career. There are many different career options. Throughout this journey you will be equipped to understand which careers would best suit your personality, interests, preferred behavior and mental ability. This will contribute to a pro-active approach to get yourself ready for when you start your career path after the age of 18.

The guidance given to individuals (older than 18) to make career decisions based on their specific situation. These decisions might include post school study direction, starting a career, a change in career, re-entering the workforce or facing the reality of being retrenched. Throughout this journey you will acquire information about different career options and which careers will suit you best based on your personality, interests, behavioral style and mental ability

What is an Organisations “Culture”?

Your company’s culture refers to your company’s personality. It is the patterns of behaviours that determines how people act and work. Your culture consists of instinctive habits and emotional responses and can therefore not easily be renewed, eliminated or modified through a quick generalised approach. Each company’s culture is self-renewing and ever evolving and it is therefore important to enhance what your company’s culture is offering rather than creating something different.

Our process:

We focus on noticeable long term improvements rather than quick fixes. It takes time to change mindsets through changing instinctive habits. The following interventions will determine the current culture and suggest ways in which the culture can be enhanced:

• The Engage Survey report to provide a starting point of your company’s culture
• Informal Leader Questionnaire to be completed by all employees to determine the informal leaders in the business (the individuals that lead without the formal title of a leader)
• Workshops with the selected informal leaders (workshop to focus on the critical behaviours that will lead to the ideal unique culture including ways to spread the specific behaviours)
• Workshops with the rest of the business’ teams to share the critical behaviours and ways to implement new behaviours, eliminate the unwanted behaviours and enhance the current ideal behaviours.
• Regular check-ins with the formal and informal leaders
• Engage survey report after one year to determine change in behaviours (advised to complete the Engage survey once a year)

Output:

• A report showing the behavioural changes and alignment with your ideal company culture (combination of the pre- and post- Engage survey).
• Noticeable long-term improvements in the behaviour of employees
• Noticeable behaviours of employees aligned to the values of your company

About our engagement tool.

Future Ingenium offers an Engagement Tool that was developed by means of a scientific approach, grounded in years of research, and based on international best practices. This Engagement tool was built on research that reveals engagement is formed across three critical work dimensions, Relationships, Roles and Rewards (The psycho-social model of engagement: Slaski & Cowan, 2009)

What it measures:

Being an organisational-level measure of employee engagement, this tool identifies the levels of engagement across divisions / departments / job roles, revealing focus points that can be targeted e.g. How do employees feel regarding trust, support, and respect amongst colleagues? Are employees being challenged sufficiently in their current role? These focus points cover:

• The Relationships employees have at work:
  • Togetherness
  • Voice
• The Role employees do:
  • Clarity
  • Challenge
  • Freedom
• The Reward (non-monetary) employees get:
  • Recognition
  • Growth

The Output:

As our client you will receive an Employee Engagement report compiled by our psychologists, which will include quantitative data – based on the engament tool questions, as well as qualitative data – based on client specific free text questions.

This Engagement survey report will provide your Organisation with a reliable measurement of:

• • The current engagement level of employees
  • across the organisation
  • per department
  • in other demographical groups stipulated upfront by the client
• The “people risk” the organisation is currently facing or is likely to face
• Different management styles and potential developmental areas
• Recommendations to improve Employee engagement
• Organisational Development recommendations

About Future Ingeniums “Team Awareness” Intervention.

Future Ingenium “Team Awareness” Intervention will take your team on a journey of self-discovery and team awareness. Through the utilization of behavioural and emotional intelligence assessments, team members will be better equipped to understand their own styles / levels of emotional intelligence and those of their team members.

Our Process:

After completing assessments, individuals will be given personal feedback, ensuring that they are more aware of their own behavioural style, strengths and limitations, fears and motivators and their value to the team. They will become more aware of their levels of emotional intelligence and how better to respond to situations.

Following this, a team awareness workshops will be facilitated, which looks at the whole team. All team members results will be shared, allowing all participants to fully appreciate the contribution that each member has to make, toward the team goals and objectives.

This workshop will explore:

• Team culture
• Management styles
• Potential power plays
• Likely discord
• Team and individual strengths and weaknesses
• Communication styles and how to communicate effectively with different team members
• Decision making approaches

The Output:

Teams will have an improved understanding of one another. They will be better able to work together more effectively, communicate more powerfully, talk a common language, and ultimately produce at a far greater level as a unit.

What is a “high performing team”?

A high performing team can be defined as “a group of people with specific roles and complementary talents and skills, aligned with and committed to a common purpose, who consistently show high levels of collaboration and innovation, produce superior results, and extinguish radical or extreme opinions that could be damaging. The high-performance team is regarded as tight knit, focused on their goal, and one which has supportive processes that will enable any team member to surmount any barriers in achieving the team's goals”

Our Process:

Utilizing Patrick Lencioni’s model of the “Five Dysfunctions of a team”, Future Ingenium has created and offers a workshop aimed at Dysfunctional Teams which are required to work as a unit to produce a business result, as well as Performing Teams in order to fine tune and escalate them to the next level.

(Patrick Lencioni’s model - “Five Dysfunctions of a team”)

This workshop can be run over two days or over a period of four or five half days, dependant on the client’s requirements. This workshop/s is extremely interactive with self-assessments and interactive activities, keeping participants engaged and outputs relevant.

The Output:

Teams will be equipped to build relationships and establish trust more readily. Techniques to understand and engage in constructive conflict will be learned and delegates will have a far great respect as to how their team members prefer to deal with conflict and how to encourage constructive conflict in a trusting, safe environment. Team members will have clear understanding of each of the team members communication styles and preferences and will be better equipped to communicate effectively.

A team charter will be agreed, drawn up and commitment gained by the team. This charter will provide absolute clarity as to the teams ultimate purpose and goal, roles and responsibilities and the team member behaviours that are deemed appropriate and acceptable (or not).

What does “coaching leaders to coach their team” entail?

The days of “I say. You do” leadership to driving bottom line profitability, is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Research show that employees are looking for a work environment that includes workplace flexibility, a commitment to health and well-being and a sense of purpose in their work. As a result, the world of work is changing rapidly with flattening structures, remote working, hot desking and varied work hours, bringing about the need for a personalised and flexible management style.

“Coaching leadership” is a skill that facilitates the engagement of people, as well as drawing out, understanding and empathising with their individual motivations, talents, and challenges. Adopting a coaching leadership style allows leaders to get a closer to their team members and gain greater insight into their real challenges. In doing so, leaders will become better equipped to both understand and assist in resolving team and individual issues.

Our Process:

We take leaders through a completely online programme where they will learn the basics of using a coaching leadership style, while undergoing their own coaching journey with one of Future Ingenium’s coaches.

The Output:

At the end of the course, as a manager, you will have a better understanding of the basic principles of coaching and practical experience of how coaching should be incorporated in your managerial toolkit to guide employees on a daily basis to optimize performance and improve the teams level of motivation.

What is a 360 degree feedback?

A 360 degree feedback is a developmental tool and a process that provides employees the opportunity to receive performance feedback from their manager, peers, reporting staff members, co-workers, and customers. It also requires the individual to assess themselves.

Our Process:

• A set of competencies relevant to the individual’s position will be agreed.
• A list of participants will be agreed, including the individuals:
  • Line manager
  • Colleagues
  • Direct reports
  • Customers (if required)
  • Associates
• All the above and the individual will be asked to rate the individual’s performance in terms of the agreed competencies.
• All the above and the individual will be asked to comment on the individual’s strengths and developmental requirements.

The Output:

A full report highlighting perceived strengths and developmental areas. Feedback will be given to the individual and their line manager by a trained consultant. A full developmental plan can be developed around areas requiring growth.

Bio writing

A personal bio is a great way to express to people who you are and what you do. Whether your bio is for a job application, a professional website, or a social media account, it is important to be thoughtful and intentional about what you write so you get the right message across. Our services include taking your current bio and giving it a revamp, or if you do not have a bio, we will construct your bio.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

A CV is a personal detailed marketing document that is used to promote yourself to potential employers. By ensuring we have an accurate understanding of who you are and what you offer, we can either work with your current CV and give it a professional revamp, or in the situation where you do not have CV, we will prepare one for you. By the end of this service you will have an impressive, modern, and professionally written personal Bio and CV.

On-line presence

In today’s digital world of work, having a notable online profile is just as important as having a good CV. In the recruitment industry, a candidate’s social media profiles are viewed as an important extension to their CV, and thus gets considered as such. It is, therefore, imperative that you accurately present yourself on the relevant social media platforms. Our experts can provide you with up to date advice and tips on which platforms will be best suited for your situation and the appropriate content to be presented in your profile. Depending on your preference you can engage with our consultants online via email or a conference call.

Online presence

As in the case of individuals, having an impressive online presence for your business is just as important. A strong online presence allows you to build your brand and gain the credibility that you need to attract more customers. Along with making your business readily accessible, an online presence gives your customers an easy way to find out more about what you have to offer. As online social and marketing platforms becoming more relevant in today’s market place, making the right decision for your business becomes difficult. Whether your business is on social media already, or not at all, our consultants can provide you with expert advice and help you to make the right decisions for your business. Depending on your preference you can engage with our consultants online via email or a conference call.