Coaching has never been more necessary than now and into the future.
Moving forwards change will be the norm and individual resilience and performance will be crucial to team and organizational success. Coaching leverages individual strengths and abilities for maximum performance.
Coaching also provides for direct on-the-job learning as well as just-in-time learning tailored to the particular situation. By enabling behavioral shifts, coaching allows projects and people to move forward immediately and with less effort.
Change in business today is often not linear, and requires quick shifts into entirely new models. True coaching supports people in quick shifts needed to meet changing business demands.
In today’s marketplace, adding value is key to business success.
Successful coaching adds value to employees, who then add value to their organizations by giving their best. Employees want to be happy, productive and innovative, and coaching creates the environment where this can happen. Coaching also supports diversity by recognizing every employee’s uniqueness.
Research and experience shows that employees perform better when positively coached, rather than being constantly evaluated. Researchers have also seen that people with more positive attitudes are more likely to succeed in their jobs and careers. Coaching fosters more positive employee attitude as a key component of development, and enhances positive attitude through positive support.
In a recent report from the Institute of Leadership and Management, research showed that slightly fewer than one quarter of respondents (24%) are not satisfied in their current role. One of the main reasons for this, according to the respondents, is a lack of growth and development opportunities (45%).
There is a wide recognition of the importance of development. Opportunities for growth and development contribute to a sense of satisfaction whereas their absence, was identified as a key factor in job dissatisfaction.
New Decade, New Direction (ILM) January 2020
Finally, coaching skills build and enhance team and work group performance, motivates sales production, improve management and leadership, and promote diversity awareness and leveraging. Human resource professionals have identified that in order to work well in the future, companies will need to hire employees for their fit with the organization, rather than to fill job descriptions. Employee fit is assessed and developed through coaching.
The future growth and success of your organisation is intricately linked with the development of your management. As such, a highly productive individual contributes greatly to the success of your team and your organisation’s performance.
Coaching will enable your organisation to:
- Grow and expand by developing its leaders
- Identify skill gaps to increase performance
- Enhance retention of talent through tailored development planning
- Increase accountability and commitment to specific actions
- Create an effective channel for communication
- Increase motivation, engagement and wellbeing of employees.
To talk about how we can help support growth, engagement, performance and wellbeing in your organisation, please get do get in touch with us @4PositiveGrowth