South African business faces the challenge of achieving growth whilst retaining and developing people and winning the war for talent. There is also increasing urgency to fast track previously disadvantaged individuals into executive positions.
This creates a particular role for executive coaching – it is an investment that organisations make in their most talented people, partnering with them to grow them as leaders whilst getting better business results.
Praesta, South Africa coaches typically have more than a decade’s experience coaching at senior level. We have successfully coached at the top of many of South Africa’s leading organizations and have an enviable track record of successful growing BEE (black economic empowerment) high potentials.
Most of our work is individual performance coaching, but we also offer Executive team coaching, diversity training, and transition coaching for people who have moved into new and stretching roles. As seasoned international players, we bring particular value to executives working with complex cultural/corporate change situations.
Our clients are pleased to acknowledge the role coaching plays in their success. Many talk about it to colleagues and friends, encouraging them to experience the benefits for themselves. It is truly a case of “seeing is believing”.
We work with a wide variety of South African companies, global corporations and professional service firms. We help managers play to their strengths, and learn from the challenges they face. They can count on our approach being practical, direct, and focused on the realities of business. That’s why they choose us.Our experience, service quality, and international coverage make us the leader in the field of Executive Coaching.
Furthermore, coaching isn’t just for individuals. The positive impact extends to the board, the executive committee, and into the business functions that drive success. We work with CEOs, general managers and functional directors to find out how they can work together and to achieve new levels of effectiveness. We equip teams to achieve more than the sum of their individual parts.
Praesta, South Africa is part of Praesta International, formerly known as the Change Partnership. Since, being founded in 1994 our global network has worked with more than 6000 managers from more than 700 client organisations – this makes us the world’s leading dedicated executive coaching firm. Our global network enables us to access the combined coaching experience of our 80 coaches operating out of 14 international locations.
Praesta firmly believes in upholding the highest standards of accreditation and ongoing education for its coaches. Our founding partners contributed to shaping coaching standards at the EMCC and Praesta recently won an EMCC award for the best coaching development program globally.
Praesta, South Africa’s mission is to coach the leaders of today and tomorrow to develop their potential and deliver great results. Elsewhere on this site you can find out more about coaching; about us; about our clients; and about the kind of agendas our clients work on.
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