Here is why coaching makes you a better Leader

Coach your people for tomorrow as the new skills are essential to produce financial and intangible benefits for your business.

“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them.”

Sir John Whitmore

Are you a subject matter expert, team leader or a manager?

If yes? Read on

This post is definitely for you

Have you ever noticed employees in your company in the same roles for many many years? this is a very common sight I have come across in my career

Have you ever coached someone the knowledge you built over the years and see them growing while taking up new challenging tasks?

If you have done the above, give yourself a pat on your back! its a lot of work….

Based on a case study on ROI of Executive coaching by Merrill C. Anderson, Ph.D. MetrixGlobal, LLC Coaching ROI

Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business. Including the financial benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%.

Well, if you manage a team you know majority of the team members will be happy with where they are and quite comfortable with the work they do. It is difficult to change the mindset and bringing them outside the comfort zone Why Do Employees Resist Change?

All you may hear is “I am very busy”?

But as their leader its our responsibility to identify their core strengths and improvement areas and motivate them towards new learning opportunities

Adoption of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will mark an acceleration, workers require to enhance their existing skillsets Automation and the workforce of the future | McKinsey

Training and coaching needs self motivation, dedication and convincing skills, not easy at all while you manage your existing tasks – this is what makes you a great leader and feel proud at times when you do the best job

Build the culture of Coaching within your team

Know your team dynamics well, know what their goals are and how they can make real progress connecting towards their own goals. Show them the path on where they need to be in the next 2 years or 5 years to come.

As a fresher with no experience or with very little experience, team members may not have the vision or the idea. Your ideas will create a spark and brings the best out of them

Conduct regular One 2 Ones, don’t take this lightly, this is the best way to understand your team member better

A detailed article about Servant leadership by Steven A. Martin, PMP To serve or not to serve

Conclusion

Your team members may not posses the same knowledge or the key information you hold, hence its very important for you to regularly communicate and coach them towards their desired goals while meeting your organizational requirements

Be courageous and correct them when you need to!!!

For SME’s/team leaders who are aspiring to become a PMP or an existing manager facing hurdles, my personal recommendation is to study for PMP Certification this course provides you the foundation on

• People – soft skills required to run the projects smoothly
• Process – technical aspects
• Business environment – connection between projects and organizational strategy

personally, this course helped me to improve my operations and my understanding towards the above foundations better.

How serious are you when it comes to coaching and sharing the knowledge you have claimed during your tenure? please leave your comments!