Harmony & Mobility Consulting

WHAT COACHING CAN DO FOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM

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Business coaching is an approach aiming at developing individuals, improving their skills, providing directions to enhance performance and opening up opportunities to new solutions.

For the last 20 years, multinationals like IBM or Hewlett Packard have included coaching skills in their management development programs, while others like British Airways or Starbucks acknowledged the growing importance of its advantages during transitional periods. Now coaching is also extensively used in small and medium enterprises and has become a very common support for all types of organizations. Its structured methodology has given it the status of a powerful managerial tool to navigate the disrupted world* and prepare the organization to the business challenges of the 21st century. 

How will coaching help?

  • A change to a new management style

The pandemic in amplifying the digital transformations initiated few years ago has brought in sudden and unforeseen disruption.  
Threatened by uncertainty, employees are vulnerable and in search of protection. As the main assets of the organization, their proper management is critical for realization of the objectives. For managers it is not easier. In a world where the only constant is change, they must define new strategies, maintain business, and adapt their management to a changing environment incorporating new needs and expectations expressed by employees.  

Going through this change offers a unique opportunity to meet the demands for new skills that belongs to the coaching methodology.  In 2020, a Gallup study stressed that “They “(Millennials) don’t want boss, they want coach”. The different management model and the necessity to align the organization with the new environment put the focus on people-skills. It is now a priority for leaders. However, in 2021 Gartner has identified that only 47% of managers feel that they are ready for this future role.

Managers overwhelmed with the growing complexity of their role and new responsibilities seek a new approach to deal with them. Here is, among other things what they could develop with coaching.

  • Based on people-oriented skills

During highly personalized one-to-one meetings or group sessions with executives, the coach focuses on personal development and improving self-awareness. Through astute observation, active listening, powerful questioning and effective communication managers are developed to use and display more emotional intelligence, show empathy and establish personal interaction.

  • Focused on providing guidance and directions rather than instructions

Your organization with its individuals and its teams always remains the center of the coach preoccupation.

With open-ended methodology and thought-provoking methods, the coach helps your team members to challenge the existing options and invite to explore new ways of thinking, working & collaborating. He guides you and the entire organization step by step towards the identification and adoption of your own solutions, setting up an environment which boost the creativity.

  • Leading the change

Group activities conducted with the coaching methodology and custom-designed to each situation addressed to leaders, managers and teams underline the importance of competencies such as adaptability, agility. Exploration of resistance increased engagement and promotion of resilience in face of change are embedded into the organization members. The coach will equip you and your team with a positive mindset, solutions and future oriented. A people centered plan is a necessity to increase change-management capabilities of the organization.  

 

 

To conclude, coaching can help managers build and show direction, for their teams, business and for themselves. If you are looking for a way to develop yourself as a manager and a leader, and therefore develop your team, give it a try!

*a study realized in 2010 for HEC Executive Education show that 97% of individuals who received coaching confirm that the objectives were successfully achieve to the organization benefits.

 

 

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