COACHING

Coaching Program

Coaching Program



Introduction

Coaching often forms part of leadership development programmes, with organizations investing in methods to aid successful transition up the leader ship ladder. It can assist leaders in developing the skills, behaviors and attitudes required to equip them to cope with the transition and the demands of the new role continually growing in popularity and status, and that the stigma of being coached is reducing as leaders recognize the value in working with other professionals to help them to grow and develop. However, some leaders do still consider there to be a stigma attached to seeing a coach (Barry, 1994 & Ellinger, 1999).

Discussion

Most large organizations in the world today have coaching programs in place. These may take the form of external one to one coaches for middle and/or senior executives, management training in coaching skills, or training internal coaches (Thornhill.et.al, 2000)

A particularly innovative approach has been taken by a number of Organizations. Out of this, they have created a pool of coaches from within the organizations who can provide coaching services which are charged for, but the entire funds move from one public purse to another without involving external consultants (Bowerman.et.al, 1999).

The coaching culture in any organization is only as strong as the organizational structure that sustains it. Creating a successful coaching culture doesn't happen overnight. Building a coaching culture requires a collective effort from many different individuals within the organization. However, when this collective coaching effort is backed by a strong organizational structure, the result is the creation of a unified coaching culture that will impact your bottom line.

A simple, easy to follow process that will enable your organization to support your coaching movement.

Conduct a best practice session to learn and share with each other coaching tips and procedures that have proved to be successful.

Have managers attend a coaching workshop to hone the skills needed to become a top-notch coach.

Conduct regularly scheduled practice sessions that incorporate role-play scenarios and case studies to boost coaching skills.

Develop Management Coaching Commitment Plans that will paint a very detailed picture of all future coaching strategies.

Obtain executive-level commitment to demonstrate a unified coaching movement from all leaders.

Principles

There are three principles underlying a coaching program:

Responsibility

The more a manager takes responsibility in the workplace, the less that manager's reports will take upon themselves. People are naturally creative, enjoy contributing and like to have a measure of control of ...