Coaching in organization and leadership settings is also an
invaluable tool for developing people across a wide range of needs.
The benefits of coaching are manymajority of people who receive
coaching report increased self-confidence, and benefit from
improved work performance, relationships, and more effective
communication skills. /Most of companies report that they recouped
their investment on coaching
Coaching provides an invaluable space for personal development.
For example, managers are frequently presented with employees
struggling with low confidence. The traditional approach would be
to send them to an assertiveness course and hope this addresses the
issue. In the short-term, the employee learns new strategies for
communicating which may improve confidence. Unfortunately, in
isolation these courses rarely produce a sustained increase in
confidence. Although external behavior may change; it needs to be
supported by changes in their internal thought processes. This is
often where coaching is most effective.
6 Benefits of Coaching for Individuals
- . Establish and act toward achieving goals-
Coaching gives the individual an opportunity to define their career
goals in a realistic way. With the assistance of a coach, they can
set these goals and then actively work towards them.
- Increased level of engagement -Coaching
engages participants with its unique one-on-one feedback and lots
of encouragement. When an individual becomes engaged with their
workplace, they can contribute more effectively to the team and the
organization.
- Safe Place to Gain Perspective-Having a coach
gives the individual a safe space to go and talk through sensitive
issues. The coach is a third-party participant, and their ability
to remain uninvolved but give guidance allows the coachee to gain
perspective without feeling intimidated by someone within their own
organization
- Deeper Level of Learning-Corporate coaching
isn’t just about improving an individual’s skills in the workplace;
it takes learning to an even deeper level. Through coaching, an
individual can learn more about themselves, find out how they are
perceived by others, and improve on areas of their personalities
that they are not satisfied with.
- Build Personal Awareness-A coach can give
their coachee ideas for ways to improve themselves, but more
importantly they can help them become aware of their blind spots.
These blind sports are areas of the individual’s work or
personality that they may not see, but that need improvement.
- Support for Improving Specific Skills-Having
support for improving skills can be extremely beneficial. Simply
knowing that someone is there specifically to help goal achievement
is an important part of progress within the coaching process.
The Benefits of Coaching in Organizations:
- Empowers individuals and encourages them to take responsibility
which aid the institutions to many acievements
- Increases employee and staff engagement providing maximum asset
utilization
- Improves individual performance which will increase the
perfomance of the company
- Helps identify and develop high potential employees and to
bring forth future leaders
- Helps identify both organizational and individual strengths and
development opportunities helps to improvise everyday
- Demonstrates organizational commitment to human resource
development