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Coaching
What is coaching?
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Coaching is a powerful tool to develop the potential of employees, modify behaviors and drive business success. Because of this, it can help individuals, teams and organizations explore resistance, enhance communication and promote resilience in the face of change.
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The focus of coaching is usually task and performance. The role of a skills or performance coach is to give feedback on observed performance. Consequently, coaching usually happens at the workplace.
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The coach is likely to set or suggest goals for the learner; measuring performance periodically as the learner develops new skills. This needs a good working relationship between learner and coach.
What is coaching?
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Coaching is a powerful tool to develop the potential of employees, modify behaviors and drive business success. Because of this, it can help individuals, teams and organizations explore resistance, enhance communication and promote resilience in the face of change.
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The focus of coaching is usually task and performance. The role of a skills or performance coach is to give feedback on observed performance. Consequently, coaching usually happens at the workplace.
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The coach is likely to set or suggest goals for the learner; measuring performance periodically as the learner develops new skills. This needs a good working relationship between learner and coach.
“Coaching is the facilitation of learning and development with the purpose of improving performance and enhancing effective action, goal achievement, personal satisfaction and fulfillment of potential. It invariably involves growth and change, whether that be in perspective, attitude or behaviour.”
(Peter Bluckert)
Coaching
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Relationship generally has a set duration.
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Generally more structured in nature and meetings are scheduled on a regular basis.
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Short-term (sometimes time-bounded) and focused on specific development areas/issues.
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Coaching is generally not performed on the basis that the coach needs to have direct experience of their client’s formal occupational role, unless the coaching is specific and skills-focused.
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Focus is generally on development/issues at work.
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The agenda is focused on achieving specific, immediate goals.
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Coaching revolves more around specific development areas/issues.
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A coaching's key benefits include for individual contributors:​
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High-performing organizations have stronger change management capabilities.
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Coaching is one of the most helpful ways to develop change management capabilities.
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Organizations with strong coaching cultures are more likely to have better talent and business outcomes.
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The most frequently cited applications for using coaching for change management activities include addressing leadership style, strengths and blind spots; overcoming resistance; building resilience; building change readiness; and finding processes and tools.
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Using coaching to develop managers/leaders to lead an agile culture is correlated with respondents’ greater confidence in employees’ abilities to plan and execute change.
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