Performance Management:

Coaching

Coaching Organization

Unlocking the Full Potential of Your People, Your Organization and Yourself

Coaching Organization Defined

The Coaching Organization creates an environment where the behaviors and practices involved in continuous learning, exchange of both explicit and tacit knowledge, reciprocal coaching and self-leadership development are actively encouraged and facilitated.

Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements

Performance Management (Water):

• Coaching environment helps people unlock their true potential... More

Coaching Organization vs. Learning Organization

A Learning Organization focuses on knowledge management. A Coaching Organization goes beyond knowledge management. It is also less about WHAT is to be achieved, it's more about HOW to achieve it: how to unlock inner power – creative, emotional, entrepreneurial – of people within the organization and make them relentless innovators, self-leaders, and team-workers.

What is Coaching?

One of the "hot" areas of personal, professional, and business development is coaching. Coaching is all about helping others to identify and define their specific goals, and then organize themselves to attain these goals. Coaching deals with building an individual's personal skills, from setting the goals, to communication to management style to decision making and problem solving. Coaches draw upon a client's inner knowledge, resources and creativity to help him or her be more effective... More

Benefits of Coaching in the Workplace

Coaching brings more humanity into the workplace. "Effective coaching in the workplace delivers achievement, fulfillment and joy from which both the individual and organization benefit:"³

1. Achievement means "the delivery extraordinary results, organizational and individual goals achieved, strategies, project and plans executed. It suggests effectiveness, creativity, and innovation. Effective coaching delivers achievement, which is sustainable. Because of the emphasis on learning and because the confidence of the player (the coachee) is enhanced ('I worked it out for myself!') the increase in performance is typically sustained for a longer period and will impact on areas that were not directly the subject of coaching."³

2. Fulfillment includes learning and development. "To achieve the business result is one thing, to achieve it in a way in which a player learns and develops as part of the process has a greater value - to the player, the coach (the line-manager) and the organization, for it is the capacity to learn that ensures an organization's survival."³ Fulfillment also includes the notion that individuals through coaching begin to identify goals that are intrinsically rewarding. "With fulfillment comes an increase in motivation. That the coach respects the player, his ideas and opinions, that the player is doing his work in his own way, that he is pursuing his own goals and is responsible - all this makes for a player who is inspired and committed. In this way more of the energy, intelligence and imagination of each individual is brought to the service of the organization."³

3. Joy: Enjoyment ensues when people are achieving their meaningful stretch goals and when learning and developing is part of the process.

These three components – achievement, fulfillment, and joy – are synergistically interlinked and the absence of any one will impact and erode the others. "Learning without achievement quickly exhausts one's energy. Achievement without learning soon becomes boring. The absence of joy erodes the human spirit."³

Coaching Culture

References:

1. "The Challenge of Managing Knowledge", Laura Empson

2. "The Knowledge-Creating Company", Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi

3. "Effective Coaching", Myles Downey

4. "The Coaching Culture: The Importance of Continuous Development, " Leadership Guide Magazine

5. "Effective Managers Need To Coach," Wendy Hearn