The Employee Assistance Professional as Executive Coach

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There is much interest today in professional coaching, especially in management circles. Coaching is becoming a preferred organizational learning tool in corporate performance consulting and leadership development. 

Executive coaching represents a huge opportunity for employee assistance professionals.

In fact, in many organizations human resources is turning to the EA professional for management coaching.  Coaching provides new opportunities for EAPs to provide new services and to generate new sources of revenue.

That’s why we have organized this special audio conference "The Employee Assistance Professional as Executive Coach."

The goal of this program is to acquaint professionals with the growing trend of EAPs acting as executive coaches and how to best introduce coaching to client organizations with the biggest impact.

Listen and Learn:

• Why coaching is needed in the workplace today
• Why adding coaching as an EAP service makes sense
• How to blend coaching with other employee assistance services
• Selling supervisors and senior management on a commitment to the process
• How a request for management consultation can be shifted to a management development intervention
• Distinctions between business coaching and life coaching
• Conceptual models and tools for supporting the executive being coached
• The expectations, steps and time frame of the coaching process
• How to develop a specific action plan to achieve developmental goals
• How to demonstrate value and create the desire for change
• Integrating coaching in emotional intelligence training
• The stages of change and how to sustain change over time
• How to design measurements to evaluate goal attainment
• Question and answer session

Who Will Benefit From This Audio Conference?

Employee assistance professionals, both internal and external program facilitators, EA service providers, EA advisors, employee and family assistance, work/life executives, human resources professionals, wellness program directors.

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Featured Presenters:

Andy LeFave, LCSW, CEAP

Senior Consultant

Blair Consulting Group

Mr. LeFave brings to Blair Consulting Group special expertise in addressing employer needs for high performing employees. His extensive experience in both internal and external EA service delivery has given him a unique ability to respond to workplace needs. He has expertise in professional coaching and has developed a series of training and consulting tools to help Employee Assistance Programs integrate coaching into their service offerings. A skilled clinician, he participates in clinical audits, operations reviews, clinical consultations, and training programs to assist EAPs in providing the highest quality services in a cost-effective manner.

Jonathan Sheff, MSW/MPH

President

Resource Management Consultants

Jonathan Sheff, MSW, MPH, has been associated with RMC since 1986.  He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of Management Development and Employee Assistance Programs.  Jonathan has special expertise in Executive Coaching having worked as a Coach with Executives for the past 15 years.  He is a Certified Emotional Intelligence Examiner.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor's in Psychology from Antioch College and both a Master's of Social Work (Clinical) and a Master's of Public Health (Health Care Management) from Columbia University, New York.  He is a member of American Public Health Association (APHA), Employee Assistance Professional Association (EAPA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and Organizational Transformation Network (OTN).  He has taught for the University of Southern Maine, University of New Hampshire and Antioch New England Graduate School.

Jim O'Shea

Development Specialist & Coach

Achievement Unlimited of CT

Jim O’Shea is an organizational development specialist and coach whose firm, Achievement Unlimited of CT, specializes in helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals using a development process tailored to the specific needs of clients.

Jim spent over 20 years in business and professional publishing and training program development with Aspen Publishers, Inc. and with the Bureau of Business Practice, a division of Simon & Schuster. Jim holds a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut and an M.A. in Human Resource Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a graduate of the Steven Covey Principle-Centered Leadership Program and the Wolters Kluwer Leadership & Management Development Program at Ashridge, UK.

Jim is a certified affiliate of Resource Associates Corporation (RAC), a Mohnton, PA firm that specializes in results-based development processes that RAC affiliates have used for over 25 years to help all types of businesses and professionals improve their results. For more information on RAC, go to www.resourceassociatescorp.com.

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