How Coaching will benefit you
Coaching is a learning process designed to create long-lasting benefits in a person's career and life - helping them to unlock potential to build their own success. Coaching includes helping people define clear goals and setting a specific time frame in which to meet them. The goals range from overcoming a problem with personal interactions to achieving a professional objective.
Workplace coaching has a particular focus on the work aspects of a client's overall well-being. The one-on-one relationship between client and coach helps the client determine what he or she wants to do, what's in the way of his or her progress, and how to move forward with a clear plan of action.
People use coaching during periods of life transition, change, or when they want to achieve a new level of skill and satisfaction in their workplace or personal life. Gary’s background allows him to provide effective support to people in a variety of workplace settings to achieve career success.
Workplace coaching operates in a practical and pragmatic manner to help address obstacles people may face in developing confidence, improving performance in their work roles, and generally increasing success in their careers and lives.
In addition to one-on-one individual coaching, there are times when teams and groups can find shared coaching or facilitated sessions helpful.
So, what do the benefits of coaching look like?
Coachees will achieve:
• Increased motivation and more influence over their own work results
• Higher results and better quality work
• Better understanding of the workplace, its customers and the importance of quality work
• More interesting and rewarding work
• More options in career development and more influence over it
• Better communication with other staff
• More appreciation of your own initiative
Organisations will achieve:
• Decreases in employment turnover – lower costs for recruitment and retention
• Better image as an employer and higher loyalty of current employees
• Better teamwork and more pleasant working atmosphere
• Increases in productivity and quality of work
• Better customer service (both towards external and internal customers)
• Improved teamwork across the workplace
• An increase in customer satisfaction
Managers will achieve:
• Better leadership – especially when working with highly skilled professionals
• More time for strategic work, networking and new business development
• Decrease in operational management and more tasks for delegating
• Less conflict and a better working atmosphere
• More innovation and improvement ideas from employees
• Employees coming with solutions not with problems
• Employees recognising the added value of leadership
• Problems and mistakes fixed at an early stage and not hidden
• Employees who are more skilled
(Acknowledgements to Southern Institute of Technology’s Coaching Resource Material.)