Coaching for Growth to Achieve Business Success.

Business Editors

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000

Managers faced with the challenges of retaining good employees, optimizing performance, managing change and improving strategic alignment need the interpersonal skills to influence, challenge and support their people. To teach them to meet these challenges, Strategic Management Group, Inc. is launching Coaching for Growth(TM), which combines classroom learning and simulation based on actual work situations.

The latest in SMG's Leading for Business Results(TM) Focused Workshops, Coaching for Growth is a one- or two-day workshop for managers and other professionals with supervisory responsibilities. The workshop is designed to strengthen the skills needed to develop their people to the fullest potential. Participants will improve their ability to forge the links between employees' values, their roles, and their places within the organization's strategy and success.

Through small group exercises, interactive case studies, and a computer-based simulation, the classroom events stress active leadership in improving performance and collaboration throughout an organization. Using a computer-based simulation in which participants practice newly learned behaviors in a typical work environment, the workshop builds critical leadership skills such as creating trust relationships, gaining and sustaining employees' commitment, and developing and maximizing employees' potential. The simulation provides ongoing feedback on decisions made, followed by qualitative and quantitative feedback, to reinforce skills and competencies. These newly acquired or enhanced coaching skills can then be employed in the workplace to raise the level of employee commitment and competence, ultimately improving business performance.

"Our interactive, computer-based simulation allows participants to learn new coaching skills and to apply them in a practical manner," said Robert Brodo, chief marketing officer of SMG. "This focus on experiential learning ensures repeated application and improved retention of the core teachings."

About Strategic Management Group, Inc.

Strategic Management Group, Inc. has been improving enterprise and individual performance of Global Fortune 1000 companies for almost two decades. SMG (www.smginc.com) offers high quality, technology-based performance improvement through superior consulting, instructional design, business simulations and content delivered via a number of multi-modal channels. The SMGnet (www.smgnet.net) division focuses on combining e-Learning, assessment, performance management tools, communities, and interactive simulations into an integrated online system for continuous performance improvement.