Why Coaching
The Environment for Change – against which coaching will be measured
The uncertainties of today’s business environment demand a response which is often outside the realms of experience of companies and its individuals.
Today, organisations large and small are faced with new workplace complexities and ever wider options within increasingly shifting boundaries.
When confronted by organisational consolidation, financial market innovations, and the need to embrace large scale IT improvement, at the same time facing new business initiatives, greater competition and increased employee expectations, leaders and managers question their response:
- ‘There is not enough time.’
- ‘We need more resources.’
- ‘My team doesn’t have the experience.’
- ‘Is this the right thing to do?’
- ‘Where the heck do I start?’
Coaching enables businesses and individuals to turn their goals into reality. Through fast forwarding the development process, true potential can be achieved, improving performance and creating effective, lasting transformation whether the goal is to increase the bottom line, accelerate individual development or help them understand their long term aspirations. Its effects can be awesome.
Organisational Benefits
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- Improved company results through Client Satisfaction:
- High Performance from Staff:
- Improved Engagement:
- Better Quality Decision Making:
- Effective Change Management:
- High Performing Leaders:
- Improved Performance:
- Accelerated development:
- Higher confidence levels:
- More flexible approach to change:
- Greater personal impact and effectiveness:
- Improved individual and team leadership:
| Improved company results through Client Satisfaction: |
| Mindset and behavioural change stimulates innovative approaches to difficult and new client relationships to deliver mutually rewarding outcomes. |
| High Performance from Staff: |
| Coaching encourages a feedback culture enabling leaders and managers to understand the impact of their behaviour on others and better understand how to motivate. |
| Improved Engagement: |
| Through coaching leaders and managers learnt to effectively communicate what is important to both the business and to their contribution. Their people then feel implicated in the success of the business. |
| Better Quality Decision Making: |
| Coaching opens up options and solutions that wouldn’t be available without the psychological insights generated by the coaching process. |
| Effective Change Management: |
| Coaching is an intense process meaning a lot can happen in a short space of time. ‘A moment of clarity’ can lead to decisive action, giving significant impact. |
| High Performing Leaders: |
| Coaching is an intimate experience giving leaders with enormous responsibility breathing space to overcome personal barriers to change (such as their own fear and resistance). |
Individual Benefits
| Improved Performance: |
| Through coaching the individual brings into awareness unexplored options and opportunities. |
| Accelerated development: |
| People can make personal developmental leaps when coaching taps into unrealised strengths and enables life changing insights. |
| Higher confidence levels: |
| With the support of a coach and eliciting feedback the individual feels empowered and able to take risks and change ineffective behaviour. |
| More flexible approach to change: |
| Through understanding their individual approach to problem solving, individuals are ready to discard comfortable thinking and use their intuition, experiment and embrace risk. |
| Greater personal impact and effectiveness: |
| Personal insights and enhanced self awareness enable individuals to monitor their own process between coaching sessions, and understand how subtle shifts in behaviour can make a huge difference. |
| Improved individual and team leadership: |
| Enables individuals to understand their leadership style and how to adapt it for maximum impact in different team contexts, and build on this through every career transition. |
But none of these benefits can be achieved without relating meaningfully to others. In recent studies in companies researching the impact of coaching, 77% of those participating reported that relationships had improved - with direct reports, immediate managers, in teamwork and relationships with peers.
This is partly attributed to increased self awareness, a sense of being listened to, understood, challenged and supported.
