Coaching
No longer must a fad or the latest do, coaching is now a fundamental part of individual, team and organisation development. There is now enough empirical evidence to demonstrate that coaching will reap a large return on investment.
Much of the focus of coaching is in the area of communication, developing and challenging individuals, leadership style and many others.
Recognised benefits of coaching include:
- Coaching for leadership increases productivity, improves communication and increases loyalty and decreases the levels of stress and tension.
- Coaching helps prevent the ‘derailment ‘or failure of senior managers
- Coaching helps managers develop better interpersonal skills. Some common reasons for interpersonal conflict include that senior managers and executives are too abrasive, too controlling and too isolated. Coaches work with executives to explore these behaviours and to recognise and modify their self defeating beliefs.
- Coaching helps leaders to think and plan more strategically, to create a vision and mission.
On a more specific level, coaching provides an answer to some of the challenges facing today’s leaders. It allows leaders to:
- Recognise new competences they should be developing
- Reflect on the leaders of tomorrow and how to develop them
- Align their personal commitments and actions
- Sustain momentum – theirs and the organisations
- Align team members with the objectives and goals of their team and their organisation
- Develop and create new ways of thinking and doing
All HWA Associates are trained to post graduate level and have completed programmes of accreditation. We are pragmatic in our approach to coaching not being slavishly tied to a particular coaching model or process. What works, works.
We fully appreciate that one size does not fit all and each coaching contract will required an approach to suit the individual coachee. This approach is formulated during the contracting phase of the relationship and regularly reviewed to ensure that the coaching is meeting its requirements.
There are other important but less tangible impacts of coaching that include:
- Improved team working
- Improved relationship with peers
- Improved job satisfaction
- Reduced conflict
In addition it is also important to fully understand what coaching is not. It is not:
- Work place counselling
- About providing business expertise
- Mentoring
- Passive – good coaching will be high trust high challenge relationship
If you wish to enquire about coaching, our approach and the benefits please get in touch
