How Much Will Leadership Coaching Transform Your Team Culture and Performance?

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• How Much Will Leadership Coaching Transform Your Team Culture and Performance? - by Sean Glaze

• Extra Insights: A Great Manager’s Most Important Habit - Gallup

• Weekly Motivation Boost: “I Got Rich When I Understood This” Jeff Bezos, Business Motiversity (YouTube)

• Action for the Week: Schedule Strategic Career Planning & 1 Action Item

• Together with the Hustle Daily: The Ultimate AI Side Hustle Guide

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How Much Will Leadership Coaching Transform Your Team Culture and Performance?

By Sean Glaze

A Harvard Business Review study found that “coaching boosts productivity by 44%.” Leadership coaching is more powerful than most initially think. Coaching facilitates growth, enhances performance and drives positive change within your organization.

There are three pivotal ways leadership coaching can address the issues managers face: focusing on the right questions and priorities, clarifying next steps with accountability, and enhancing awareness of strengths and blind spots.

The Right Questions and Priorities

One of the most significant challenges for managers is the constant barrage of decisions that need to be made. It’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters.

The right coach can play an important role in helping managers cut through the noise and focus on the right questions to anticipate changes, seize opportunities and guide their organizations in a positive direction.

These conversations help managers stay centered on their priorities and refocus their time and energy on tasks that drive real results.

Clear Next Steps and Accountability

Even with clear priorities, the journey from intention to action can be challenging. How often have you set goals only to find yourself struggling in the follow-through?

Coaches provide that support and encouragement to keep managers on track. They help clarify the next steps, breaking down large goals into manageable actions. This accountability ensures that you don’t just plan but also execute.

Awareness of Strengths and Blind Spots

Self-awareness is a cornerstone of effective leadership, yet it’s one of the hardest skills to develop on your own. Managers often struggle to see their own strengths and may be unaware of their blind spots, which can hinder their interactions with their teams.

A coach provides an objective perspective, using tools like personality type assessments to highlight a manager’s default leadership style. This awareness allows managers to leverage their strengths more effectively.

How Do You Know What to Look for in a Leadership Coach?

1. One-to-One Ratio: Personalized coaching sessions tailored to individual leaders produce the most effective results.

2. Effective Communication: The best coaches encourage open and honest communication. They ask powerful questions, listen actively and offer transparency and feedback.

3. Emotional Intelligence: A good leadership coach not only focuses on pragmatic skills but also on emotional and cognitive development to develop self-awareness, empathy and a growth mindset.

4. Customized Approach: The best coaches tailor their approach to the specific needs and challenges of each leader, whether they are executives, mid-level managers or first-time leaders. Even the term “coaching” can mean many different things.

Coaching usually refers to interactions where the coach asks prodding questions to help the client come to their own insights, while “mentoring” is usually about a relationship where the mentor shares helpful insights and information from their own experiences.

Some leadership coaching programs tend to lean a bit to the mentoring side of the meter, although questions are the heart of the conversations with most coaches.

Measurable Results: Effective coaching programs track and share clear data on their results. This transparency allows you to monitor progress, demonstrate success and, most importantly, maintain momentum.

Investment vs Cost: American University recently reported that coaching has a “788% Return on Investment.” It actually ends up growing your profits and improving team performance by developing better leaders and more productive team members.

Leadership coaching is not a one-time event. It’s an ongoing process that can drive long-term success. Just like team building events are not a one-time cure for poor organizational culture.

Leadership coaching transforms your organization by developing more effective, confident and self-aware leaders. Understand what to look for in a coach and recognize the benefits of coaching so you can build a positive and profitable team culture that drives long-term success.

💡EXTRA INSIGHTS

A Great Manager’s Most Important Habit

Gallup

6-Minute Read

🏅WEEKLY MOTIVATION BOOST

“I Got Rich When I Understood This” - Jeff Bezos

Business Motiversity

8-minute watch

🏃🏽‍♀️Action for the Week

Schedule Strategic Career Planning & 1 Action Item

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