Business coaching is a pursuit of leading organisations, a way of treating employees, a pattern of thinking – in short, a way of living! It is not some technique that is rigidly spun around specific prescribed situations. Coaching is a constant practice primarily because it involves continuous construction and boost of self-trust amongst others.
How does Coaching Benefit an Individual Personally?
On a personal level, coached by business mentors would offer an invaluable room for self-development. In an organisation, managers often encounter and deal with employees who struggle with low confidence. Conventionally, organisations sent them for assertive courses in the hope of addressing the issue.
The approach is beneficial in the short term as employees imbibe new skills and communication strategies, which boosts their confidence. However, in isolation and log run, the courses fail to achieve its desired objective. The external behaviour changes while the internal though process remains intact. This is where coaching often becomes more effective.
Experienced managers never underestimate the impact of coaching on their subordinates. The resultant consequence of the process is quite substantial – it frequently creates a fundamental shift in their professional realm. Boosted self-confidence allows them to bring in more motivation and creativity to work, thereby being more assertive and resilient.
The personal benefits of coaching are diverse. Experience clients opine its impacts in the following ways:
- communicating more effectively
- being more self-reliant
- contributing more assertively and effectively to the client and organisation
- well-versed in establishing and taking action towards the fulfilment of achieving goals.
How do Coaching Unlock People's Potential?
Individuals have a natural in-built learning capacity which is often far more unique than the owner himself realises. It is widely observed that the manager's belief regarding their teammates' capability directly affects their performance. Coaching too emphasises on this fact.
The very purpose of coaching is to unlatch people's potential and maximise their performance. Potential in itself is the driving engine of coaching and performance. When aware leaders focus on an individual's potential while observing the coaching principles of partnering, curiosity, and non-judgment, they circumvent fro, measuring people with their past performance or mistakes.
Coaching reduces fear and other inner interferences while building awareness, self-belief, and awareness.
