Organizations that use coaching as an effective tool and strategy build high performance teams and high results organizations. Perhaps when you think of a "coach" you think of your child's soccer coach, or someone standing on the sidelines shouting, and directing the team.
Coaches have existed off the sports field for a long time but in recent years are more and more in the mainstream. Coaching is now being implemented within organizations worldwide, it provides a new framework for working with staff and developing teams.
Coaching Empowers Staffs, and Creates Collaborative Work Environments
In Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman outlines six emotional leadership styles of which one is coaching. It is also a leadership style that is part of Situational Leadership. In Situational Leadership, coaching is used with staffs that are competent and no longer need a directing style. They have gained competence. Coaching works with both individuals and teams. It focuses on organizational vision and goals, as well as the staffs goals both professionally, and personally.
Managers that use a coaching style, focus on organization goals. Coaches go beyond just the organization and learn more about their staffs, their passions and ideas for the company. When focusing on goals with individuals, and regular coaching meetings, managers are able to move their organizations forward. Regular meetings is one of the real keys to creating a coaching culture. When managers meet with staffs once per year they cannot expect staffs to be focused on the company mission and vision.
Team coaching helps staff members work more effectively together, as a team. Teams are challenging. People dynamics within teams are challenging, and coaching or supervising teams, motivating them is hard. Groups each come with different levels of competence, motivation and inspiration. Some team members are highly committed and loyal to the organization. Some aren't as loyal or committed. That makes the team even more challenging. These differences can cause rifts within the team.
Coaching is an approach to leadership that can clarify staff goals, ideas and expectations. Through coaching both individuals and teams the leader is able to share the organizational vision and hear different ideas and perspectives, coming to shared goals and overall organizational success. Through coaching leaders build staff goal plans that point towards the organizational vision. With a coaching approach, leaders build loyalty for the company but they also build confidence, trust, and many other positive attributes.
By building a coaching culture within the company, leaders are building the capacity for greater and greater levels of success. Coaching assists leaders support staff, empower staff and engage staff. When leaders embrace coaching as their mode of leadership they build their staff up. Whether within the team or individually the strategy has positive effects on the individual and the team.
Donna Price is the President of Compass Rose Consulting, a business coach and consultant working with work teams to work in more effective ways. She provides training, facilitation and coaching to business owners, work teams and managers. Donna is also the Co-Founder of the Real World Leader's Institute with Executive Coach, Debora McLaughlin. Donna has worked in Adventure Education and Facilitation for 10+ years and offers teams opportunities to learn holistically through adventure programs combined with other team building or strategic planning programs. To pick up your Real World Leader's Report visit: http://www.realworldleadersinstitute.com or call 973-948-7673.
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