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Workplace Coaching
Coaching is an excellent navigation tool for leaders, which enhances any prior formal training. Business coaching seeks to improve performance, productivity and teamwork. It can also lead to personal transformation, because it is an intense process which demands commitment over a period of time.
Workplace coaching has the capacity to revitalise businesses and directly impact on the bottom line.
Coaching is about walking alongside a person, providing a sounding board and the space for them to reflect upon their day to day tasks, decisions and relationships. Conversations flow in a direction that reflects the participant's needs and aspirations.
Because coaching is a series of powerful conversations within a productive, outcomes-focused context, it can lead to behavioural and attitudinal transformation of participants in a realistic timeframe, normally three to six months.
When to invest in workplace coaching
When business circumstances change, workplace coaching can be invaluable to the overall vitality and stability of the organisation and the affected individuals. There is increasing evidence to suggest that workplace coaching will revitalise teams and individuals and enhance overall performance.
There are critical times when an explicit investment in workplace coaching will produce a substantial return to the business:
- Tackling workplace inefficiencies, due to communication and staff differences
- Working with managers who are building new teams and implementing new strategies in the business
- Businesses undergoing cultural change due to events such as mergers or acquisitions
- Preparing leaders to maximise staff 'buy in' during times of change and uncertainty
- Guiding and supporting staff who are retrenched - creating opportunity out of adversity
- Supporting the 'survivors' in the workplace following redundancy exits