“The ability to see results within the first few months of having started the management by coaching program has resulted in a huge value add in...
- A synopsis of his background and experience
What Lauron does and for whom Lauron helps leaders and senior managers consistently and effectively get the best out of their teams, their people and themselves. Whilst providing individual and team coaching approaches, his primary focus is on achieving this level of effectiveness through his Management by Coaching process.
Leaders and managers face enormous challenges these days – if it is not the economy or stakeholders, it’s constant interruptions and distractions, or a host of other things. These impact drastically on their ability – and their team’s ability – to perform.
Lauron helps them get the best out of their people and themselves.
Benefits of this process
The result is that they hit their targets. They have self-motivated, self-directed and solution-focused people and teams. And they lead them effectively by focusing on the right things and by having the same conversations they should be having now, but more effectively. If participants consistently apply what they learn in this process, developed and provided over a period of ten years, they and their organisations can expect to benefit through achieving:
- A return on investment of between 500% and 2000%;
- A peace of mind that comes with knowing that their teams and team members will consistently achieve or exceed their key performance targets;
- The choice of work / life balance they want; and
- Satisfaction in the knowledge that they are becoming the best and most effective leaders, in all areas of their lives, that they can be.
Lauron has more than twenty years experience in aggregate in leadership, executive and strategic roles in law, commerce, education and sport. His tertiary qualifications include a BA, HED and a Master of Laws.
Lauron attended his first coaching programme, through the International Professional Coaching and Mentoring Institute, in 2001, and has been practising as an Organisational and Leadership Effectiveness Coach ever since. He has also graduated with a Diploma in Professional Coaching from The Coaching Centre in Cape Town and the internationally recognised Workplace Coach Training programme with Results Coaching and is a qualified and accredited facilitator of the Nine Conversations in Leadership Programme. He has also attended numerous other courses and programmes in such areas as facilitation, action learning, transactional analysis, and flawless consulting.
He is the author of two published books, namely Management by Coaching – 7 Basic Keys (2007) and High Performance Coaching for Managers – 7 Effective Keys (2009) as well as an as yet unpublished book entitled Shooting the Lights Out: A Guide to Consistent Effective Management. In addition, Lauron wrote some 150 articles for a weekly coaching column in the Daily News newspaper and, since 2009, has written a monthly coaching conversations column in the online journal, Human Capital Review.
Lauron was the driving force behind the commencement of the KZN chapter of COMENSA and has been a frequent speaker at the annual Knowledge Resources Coaching and Mentoring Conference. He also chaired the steering committee of the Global Coaching Community that successfully arranged the Rainbow Coaching Convention in Cape Town in May 2011 and that brought coaches from all over the world together.
Schools of Thought that have influenced Lauron’s work
Lauron is equally at home working with individuals, teams and groups having in excess of 2000 hours executive and team coaching experience whilst also facilitating strategic design sessions and conducting management by coaching and accelerated development programmes with managers at various levels.
In individual coaching, Lauron is eclectic in his use of methodology, using a combination of the Integral model integrated from time to time with such models as Kolb’s adult learning model, Goleman’s emotional, social and relationship intelligence models, Daniel Pink’s intrinsic motivational model and tools such as Covey’s circles of influence and concern. As such, if Lauron was to be categorised, he is likely to be regarded as a cognitive behavioural coach.
When involved with teams and groups, Lauron uses a highly interactive, stimulating and self-directive approach to learning by creating what he considers to be the most important and stretching conversations that will provide the most learning for the participants. Beyond questioning, he uses such facilitative methods as appreciative inquiry and worldwide cafe.
Lauron is a continuous improvement freak and an ideapreneur who is forever looking at ways to create even more effective learning for his clients.
Areas of his work include:
- Personal and professional leadership effectiveness
- Team development and effectiveness, strategic planning and change management
- Climate audits and process design arising therefrom
- Business coaching
- Management by coaching skill development
- Accelerated development for managers
Lauron’s coaching purpose
Lauron strives to enable his clients to leave lasting legacies to the generations that follow them – his hope is that the people led by his clients will find their ways so effective and significant that they too seek to perpetuate this effectiveness in their own environments.
Perspectives underpinning my purpose
The relevant beliefs that underpin Lauron’s purpose are:
- People are generally good and doing the best they can with the information at their disposal
- Everyone can improve – and our job is to try to help them to do so in a sustainable manner
- Clients have the knowledge – we help them access it
- The client is the barometer
- People learn best by raising their awareness and understanding, and applying
- People are more effective when they focus on what they can control
- Low aim, not failure, is a crime
- Leaders lead more effectively through influencing, not power
- Emotionally intelligent leaders influence more effectively
- In the end, it’s all about the quality of thinking
The following is a diagrammatical summary of the methodology adapted, integrated and followed by Lauron:
