ALBERTO PONTIGGIA BUSINESS COACHING
Achieve Your Goals | Accelerate your Results
Are you an entrepreneur, a manager, an executive, a professional that wants to succeed and overcome limiting challenges to business growth and own belief systems. Each of us can experience hard times, but only a few know how to turn it into a starting point for the new life full of happiness. I'm a certified Business Coaching Professional with years of experience, and my mission is to find your hidden potential and give you all necessary tools to develop and grow.
Recognized benefits of coaching include improvements in:
Performance & Productivity and Increased Innovation
Career Development, Life Skills, Job Satisfaction & Retention
Greater agility & adaptability
Better use of People & Knowledge
People who will go the extra mile, High-Performance Culture.
ABOUT ME
Passionate Coaching Professional
Alberto has a passion to inspire, empower and motivate people through coaching and mentoring.
Coaching helps people unlock their potential, explore possibilities outside of themselves, and in turn help them maximize their performance.
Alberto believes that, amongst other, coaching is an effective instrument to assist in the upliftment and empowerment of communities through the development of business projects and young entrepreneurs, using the medium of smart technology as a business enabler.
Coaching assists in developing competent habits to become a highly effective person.
Previous Background
Alberto is an accredited Business Coach and holds a BSc (Eng) Mech (Wits) with with 40+ years background industry experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, IT Systems Integration & Smart Tech solutions. He has developed considerable skills in Product Development, Sales & Business Development, General & Executive Management, including Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring in latter years.
He has worked locally and overseas (8 years) for small and large corporate companies, including CSIR (2 years), Nissan Manufacturing (10 years) and recently for the ALTRON Group (11 years) as a Business Development Executive in IT Systems Integration and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), including smart IoT technologies and Predictive Analytics.
From a business perspective Alberto has also been an entrepreneur, a director of 3 companies and worked in senior management.
Coaching Work Experience
Having mentored throughout his professional engineering career, Alberto completed the ALTRON Coaching and Mentoring training course in 2016 to provide mentoring and coaching assistance with the young graduates Business Development Internship programme which spanned over a 2-year period.
Upon retiring from corporate life in 2019 he then completed his accreditation training programme as a Business Coach through the SA Business Coaches school and started his coaching practice soon after.
He has coached Business Owners and young Entrepreneurs in various industry sectors, in particular for the Redefine Properties Innovation Challenge, Enterprise Development coaching for the City of Joburg Opportunity Centres (Pro Bono), plus Performance and Strategy Coaching assignments in sectors such as Systems Integration, Health & Wellness, Professional Services, Marketing, Food Supply Chain and ICT sectors.
He has also worked extensively with NPO’s and in particular, team coaching with the international Venice Resilience Lab on their Strategy & Implementation Development programme.
Furthermore, due to his years of experience in volunteer community development work, he also focusses on coaching for transformational initiatives involving SMME Enterprise Development and young entrepreneurs.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP -BASED APPROACH
Coaching for Business Success and Personal Happiness
With my business expertise over the years, both as an entrepreneur and a corporate executive, and with my multi professional experience and people skills, I can help you accelerate performance, achieve your business and personal goals, and become successful in what you love doing. Contact me to start your proactive journey today.
BUSINESS COACHING & MENTORING
Maximise your performance in your business
My company, Alberto Pontiggia Business Coaching, is dedicated and passionate about inspiring, empowering and motivating people through coaching and mentoring.
My focus is on Business Coaching which is about coaching clients in the context of their business and work environment. It is a holistic coaching approach which involves taking cognizance and integration of influencing factors in the three areas of B-O-P, viz.,
Business (7 layers),
Other People (internal & external).
Personal (Behaviour, Emotions & Thoughts)
As qualified and competent business coaches we follow a process of listening and exploration, where our clients:
develop insights and awareness into their own business areas
shift from old patterns to new patterns
find sustainable solutions to their needs.
This is then followed up by a guided process of setting goals and mapping out an actionable roadmap forward.
Business Coaching is also about enhancing and maximizing competency in the areas of Behaviour, Experience, Ability, Knowledge and Skills (BEAKS).
It is a Solutions Focused exercise looking forwards – not looking backwards, and it is about creating genuine wellbeing and exceptional success.
Coaching is a cost effective, sustainable way to achieve business progress and success, through helping employees unlock their potential, explore possibilities outside of themselves, and in turn maximize their performance in whatever they are trying to achieve.
Please contact our company to find out more about the Art & Science of Business Coaching and how coaching can bring success to your business.
SERVICE OFFERING & TARGET MARKETS
Coaching for Business Success and Personal Happiness
We provide our coaching services to Corporates, SMME’s, Business Owners & Entrepreneurs, Government & NGO’s in the following areas:
Executive & Leadership Coaching
Business Coaching
Business Owner & Entrepreneur Coaching
Sales Coaching
Talent Development Coaching
SMME Enterprise Development (ED) and Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD) Coaching
Our Target Markets are all the Industrial & Manufacturing sectors as well as the ICT & Smart Tech industries. Within these, we also focus on Transformation Initiatives involving SMME Enterprise Development.
Other Coaching specialities which include an element of consulting and solution business development are:
Manufacturing Operations Management (MES/MOM) performance coaching for Manufacturing, Mining & Engineering sectors
Business coaching helps people become more effective in order to make business more effective. It has emerged in recent years as a popular and effective way to develop leaders, because organizations find that it keeps them focused on the bottom line.
SERVICE OFFERING DESCRIPTIONS
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Performance & Leadership
Executive coaching is a form of organisational learning through one-to-one conversations that facilitates development for a leader. It can be used in a variety of ways, for example, getting past an impasse, removing a stumbling block or drawing out and building on strengths. Senior executives now often acknowledge that coaching has informed them as leaders and influenced their value systems, the way they deal with other people or their approach to their work. Executive coaching is a strategic partnership in which the coachee empowers themselves to gain awareness of themselves and their environment, clarify goals, create action plans, move past obstacles, and achieve their ambitions. Executive Coaching is a category of Business Coaching which is a specialization of coaching in the context of business and the work environment. It is a holistic coaching approach which involves taking cognizance and integration of influencing factors in the three areas of, 1. Business (7 layers), 2. Other People (internal & external). 3. Personal (Behaviour, Emotions & Thoughts)
BUSINESS OWNER & ENTREPRENEUR COACHING
Enterprise Development Coaching
Business Coaching will help a Business owner or an Entrepreneur with all aspects of their business from strategy, management, sales, production, value chain processes, people skills and competence, self management and confidence. It will enhance awareness and behavior so as to achieve desired business objectives. Business Coaching is a specialization of coaching in the context of business and the work environment. It is a holistic coaching approach which involves taking cognizance and integration of influencing factors in the three areas of - Business (7 layers), Other People (internal & external) & Personal (behaviour, emotions & thoughts)
PERFORMANCE COACHING
Accelerated efficiency & competency
Performance Coaching is all about achieving maximized results with accelerated efficiency and sustainability of effort. It is about integrating ability, experience, knowledge, behaviour and skill with the goals and objectives set out. It starts with personal leadership
For Manufacturing Environments - Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) Performance Coaching.
In Manufacturing Environments, MOM Performance is vital to the business and involves coaching taking cognizance of People, Processes & Systems and the integration of equipment/line performance, quality, cost and delivery outputs
SALES COACHING
How to win sales
Sales Coaching is a unique approach to bring out the best in a salesperson or sales team. It is about advancing or enhancing the sales training and knowledge into actionable and measurable steps that make sense to the sales team. Sales coaching is a structured approach with the salesperson or sales team to incorporate the knowledge and skills from training into their daily activities. It is also about bringing out the sales professional's natural abilities, talents, and skills in interacting with new customers, generating qualified leads, and actually closing sales deals. Sales coaching is focused on setting and obtaining goals as set out in the company targets. It also works on motivation and self-challenge. Sales Coaching is a sub-category of Business Coaching which is a specialization of coaching in the context of business and the work environment. It is a holistic coaching approach which involves taking cognizance and integration of influencing factors in the three areas of, Business, Other People and Personal
SMME ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (ED) & ENTERPRISE SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT (ESD) COACHING
Enterprise Development Coaching
Enterprise Development is a strategy for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty by building SMMEs, with the specific objective of assisting or accelerating the development, sustainability and ultimate financial independence of the beneficiary SMME. Supplier Development is the process of working with certain suppliers on a one-to-one basis to improve their performance for the benefit of the buying organisation, leading to improvements in the total added value from the supplier in question in terms of B-BBEE rating, product or service
TALENT DEVELOPMENT COACHING
Coaching for accelerated development
Talent management is a constant process that involves attracting and retaining high-quality employees, developing their skills, and continuously motivating them to improve their performance. The primary purpose of talent management is to create a motivated workforce who will stay with your company in the long run. Coaching accelerates this process by integrating and developing the employee's competencies (Behaviour, Experience, Aptitude, Knowledge & Skill) in conjunction with the reality of the work environment and company structures, values and ethics
CHANGE MANAGEMENT COACHING
As applied to Systems and Processes
Change management is an on-going process whereby the current state (comprised of people, processes, and systems) is determined to be inadequate. Change management involves recognizing the need to change (why will the status quo not suffice?), identifying what needs to be changed (what processes, systems, and roles are impacted?), communicating details of the change to the affected role, gaining commitment from their reporting chain, soliciting their feedback (with the objective of generating the desire to change), providing training prior to the change and support during the change period, and finally, closing the loop by reviewing the results of the change to make sure the desired outcome was achieved and correcting as necessary.
Coaching accelerates this process and assists in integrating in a sustainable way, the roleplayers, the systems and the expectations at play (both stated and unstated).
MY COACHING STYLE
My training through SA Business Coaches uses a blend of coaching styles to achieve a Transformational basis to Coaching
My Coaching Philosophy and Approach
My training is based on International best practices as outlined by the ICF (International Coaching Federation), COMENSA and the SA-Business-Coaches, Core Competencies and Behavioural Standards. This also involves understanding and applying all related ethical guidelines, codes of conduct and professional standards.
My coaching philosophy and approach is based on a variety of styles, viz.,
- Person Centred - Solution Focussed - Performance Based -
where
Each client is creative, resourceful and is whole. We accept them with unconditional positive regard, accepting the person for who they are, without judgment, on face value.
They have the inner resources to construct highly individualised and uniquely effective solutions to their problems.
My approach is to help them unlock their potential to maximise their performance, learnings and outcomes.
Furthermore, from a Business Coaching perspective, I follow a developed framework and methodology which is about coaching clients in the context of their business and work environment. It is a holistic approach which involves taking cognizance and integration of influencing factors in the three areas of:
- Business (Strategy, Business Models, Competencies, Internal & External Analysis, Systems & Processes) -
- Other People (internal & external agents) -
- Personal (8 areas of Life, plus Behaviour, Emotions & Thoughts) -
INTERNATIONAL COACHING
English & Italian
Alberto is an accredited international business coach through the ICR (International Coaching Register)
He is fluent in both English and Italian.
Born and bred in South Africa where he has spent most of his professional life, he however lived and worked professionally in Italy (parental home origin) for numerous years and travelled extensively around the world during that period and developed an international business acumen.
He specializes in business coaching involving people, processes, systems & technology in the Industrial, Retail, Manufacturing, ICT & Smart Tech industry sectors and focusses on:
• Business Owner & Entrepreneur Coaching
• Performance Coaching
• Sales & Business Development Coaching
• Talent Development Coaching
• Executive Coaching
His international experience in Italy involved a variety of roles from Product Development, Sales & Business Development and Senior Management in sectors like SAP consulting, Plastic Injection Moulding & Toolmaking and Auto/Truck Components Manufacturing.
From a business coaching perspective Alberto has the background and positioning to assist Italian companies in accelerating skills and competencies within their international business development initiatives, especially where the medium of Italian/English language is a necessity
ACCREDITATIONS & TRAINING
SA Business Coaches - Business Coach Accreditation
Includes 319 hours course training modules, practicals & business plan
TESTIMONIALS
They say the key to being a great mentor is to help people become more of who they already are – not to make them more like you.
In that case Alberto is more than a mentor, he is a life coach.
I had the opportunity of meeting Mr. Pontiggia in 2019 at the Redefine Properties Innovation Challenge. Being unexperienced in the field of business at the time, I felt as if it was luck that got me to the Top 15 of a national competition. The Top 15 were paired with mentors to help us prepare and refine our winning concept for the final live presentation, for the winning prize of R1 million.
Once again luck prevailed as I had the honor of being paired with Mr. Pontiggia and over a period of 3 weeks we successfully achieved Top 5 position.
With the wisdom, guidance and support of Alberto, I was transformed into what I still refer to as the best version of myself. His style of mentorship is authentic and organic, naturally extracting the potential in an individual. I believe Alberto is the best at what he does not only because of his experience and knowledge, but because he loves helping people reach their ultimate potential
Praise Majwafi - Redefine Properties Innovation Challenge Finalist
THE BENEFITS OF BUSINESS COACHING
Business Coaching can increase the pace of growth 2 or 3 times and, revenue growth within 6 months.
It is a fit for purpose and agile approach where both a directive and non-directive method can be used.
It is a holistic coaching approach taking cognizance of influencing factors in the areas of Business, Other People & Personal
A coaching approach can assist in mitigating the risk of failure of programmes and offer longer term sustainability and success to their efforts.
It is a sustainable way to reinforce and implement any acquired training knowledge that is required on the job.
It empowers and motivates and creates awareness and insights and initiates new thinking patterns.
It can greatly assist in the development of personal competencies as defined by, Behaviour, Experience, Aptitude, Knowledge and Skills (BEAKS).
Fundamental to the Coaching approach is one of setting Goals, Strategies and Actions that are measurable and achievable.
We utilize an online ‘user friendly’ coaching tool which renders visibility of the progress, both to the coachee, coach and sponsor. Available as a mobile application as well.
Coaching facilitates learning and applying good habits.
It is industry knowledge, worldwide, that a business coaching approach yields an 8 x Return on the Coaching Investment.
CONTACT DETAILS
Want to hear more about Business Coaching? Contact me today to schedule a session.
Coaching Studio: 37 Kent Avenue, Sandringham, 2192
Johannesburg, South Africa
Postal Address: PO Box 3103, Houghton, 2041
Johannesburg, South Africa
+27 725018435