Coaching for Success – Top 9 Reasons To Hire A Coach

A leader is one who inspires by their actions and receives a buy-in to their vision by what they are, how they act, and what they do.  A leader need not necessarily be one with a title. Leadership is not about the use of authority.   Most organizations have managers but not necessarily many of them are leaders in a true sense.

Many managers rely on authority and control to get the job done. They are directive in their management style and instruct, no matter how enthusiastic or self-starter some members of their team may be. Described conversationally, it’s “I talk, you listen … I direct, and you adhere. “Described attitudinally, it’s I’m the boss and I alone have the authority to decide how things are done. However, no matter how junior or inexperienced your team may be most of us don’t like being bossed around.  Ask yourself if you’d like to be commanded and instructed – fact is most of us including you resent it and the team whom you are managing resent you for doing it.  Authoritative and directive style management stifle creativity, enthusiasm, learning, transition, commitment, morale and the tenacity to stay on is broken.

There are some managers who adopt a friendly style in that they trade on their friendship to get the job done. This style may increase the potential for favoritism, and loss of objectivity whilst dealing with issues. Your team members may also find it confusing to deal with you since they are not sure whether you are telling them to get the job done as a manager/boss or as a friend. This also stifles creativity, motivation and makes transitions difficult.

In today’s world where attention spans are for less than a nano second and with companies expanding and becoming complex, most managers expect the work to be done without actually caring to determine if their team member/s have understood or not.  Many high performing individuals are frustrated because there is no one to listen to them or determine what they actually want. Also, many times authority-based systems are a breeding ground for abuse of power and are prone to creating oppressive work environments.

So what can organizations and individuals do in these kind of situations, where meeting deadlines and targets are important but a manager may not necessarily have time to help a person within their team through a transition. Who can assist you in these kind of situations

9 things your Coach can help with:

1. Life Skills Coaching – clarifying what you want in life – your purpose and vision and action plans to achieve it.

2. Transitions – Assisting you in managing the transition process be it a new role or promotion or new responsibility.

3. Business Coaching  includes Interpersonal and communication skills, time management, increasing productivity, increasing market share, customer service development, staff development and dealing with conflict, identifying gaps and obstacles to efficiency, strategic thinking and business planning.

4. Career Coaching – for those starting a career, mid-life career changes, re-entering the work force, transition and change due to company restructuring, increasing your visibility and profile in the current workplace, dealing with job loss.

5. Skills Development – focuses on Executive’s current task for e.g. presentation and negotiation skills.

6. Performance – is focused more broadly on an executive’s effectiveness in a present job.

7. Development – is focused on an executive’s new or future’s career

8. Leadership – defining transformational leadership – authenticity, credibility, inspiration, leading change, seeking opportunities for change, determining and guiding change, defining and clarifying goals and strategies to achieve change

9. Communication skills – giving praise, feedback and encouragement , problem solving with staff and clients.

A coach is a leader and helps you to identify and remove barriers that limits the expression of your potential is one who assists you through the transition you wish to make.

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