Building a Successful Coaching Culture
Building Coaching Cultures
In November, the Global IOC blog highlighted the need for leaders to develop coaching skills. Interestingly, in the work the Global IOC does with leaders, most leaders who begin the coach development programs share that they are already coaching. Yes they are! And yet, there are opportunities to strengthen innate coaching skills in formal coach development programs. For example, our Essential Leadership Coaching Skills program focuses on differentiating between positive and negative emotional attractors. Did you know that when someone hears a negative comment or interprets it as negative, his or her brain goes into flight or flight? This is huge when coaching direct reports. Participants also learn the difference between being a critical thinking partner and being a director of others’ behavior. The following discussion will focus on how to expand the coaching practices beyond an individual leader into the entire organization.
What Organizations Will Need in 2023
Our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world will continue in 2023. Additionally, many of the issues that troubled organizations will continue to impact them. LinkedIn shared a few workplace trends that they see coming for 2023. They include; retention of key talent, employee wellness including mental health initiatives, company culture enhancements including diversity, equity and inclusion programs and hybrid work. Creating coaching cultures can help to address these continuing and emerging trends. Coaching cultures provide adaptability with pace of change, actions for closing knowing-doing gaps, delivering targeted individual just-in-time development, increasing the range, effectiveness and flexibility of leadership behaviors, and acceleration of performance.
