Coaching plays an integral role in managing and leading in todays workplace. As per HBR you cannot be a great manager if you are not a good coach. If your role is to help others leverage their skills, passion, talents and knowledge coaching is the tool to success.
Though most organizations have not enlisted coaching in their job description, this eventually decides the success or failure of the leader at any level. In fact recent research shows that coaching is the most critical competency for effective management results. Most employees who have progressed in the organizational hierarchy have been fortunate in working with supervisors who have prioritized coaching and nurturing the talent rather than robotic execution of the tasks.
The second reason why coaching has become so critical for the success of the organization, is the new era professionals from gen y; who want to engage and understand what they are doing and how that impacts the industry; rather than taking orders as used to be in the Manufacturing set ups earlier.
Todays professionals are ideating and innovating by the hours and they want to contribute more to the organization and want to work in partnership with their seniors and not get subjugated to hierarchical pressures. With information and knowledge being under constant change the only competency that keeps a leader relevant is his /her ability to empathize, facilitate explorations of the innate talent that every individual is endowed with. We often give credit to path breaking discoveries which wither with time or get updated. However ability to nurture the best in others is a timeless virtue and art thats eternally relevant irrespective of time or space.
Last but not the least coaching is a tool, a philosophy, an approach, an enabling method, which takes as a premise that every individual has unique talents and best intuition about their environment; that can support them to optimize their resources resulting in best outcomes.
Investing on creating coaching muscle in the organization is the best vehicle for lasting success and ongoing development. Thus as a part of leadership and coaching community its imperative, that we continue to share this empowering tool with the decision makers to expedite the process of creating passionately productive workforce!!!!
Posted 7th May 2015 by Sonali Dutta
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