A633.8.3.RB_How Do Coaches Help?_Wathen_Reece_Sandra

A633.8.3.RB_How Do Coaches Help?_Wathen_Reece_Sandra

Coaches bring a synergy to finding solutions in a natural way. To be an executive coach, it is necessary to know that clients are the first and best expert capable of solving their own problems and achieving their own ambitions, that is precisely the main reason why clients are motivated to call on a coach. When clients bring important issues to a coach, they already made a complete inventory of their personal or professional issues and of all possible options.  Clients have already tried working out their issues alone, and have not succeeded.

Given the statement above what is it that coaches do to provide value to their clients?

Coaches use their skills, abilities, and charisma to assist organizations  in transitioning their skills, talents, ideas into a method by which the outcome includes personal development and empowerment of the individuals.  It develops key communication channels which includes effective feedback.   Confidence is also increased as the capabilities are increased, self-motivation is energized, team-work incentivized, etc.  As a result it builds positive attitudes and personal energy.  Coaches add value in that they assist an organization to evolve to its highest level capability of the Level 5 maturity model.

Why is coaching a vital aspect of both leadership and strategy?   

Coaching is a vital aspect of leadership in that it assists them to engage in adaptive leadership by just the nature of coaching.  It also encourages the "pull" technique when using the GROW model.  As a separate note, the GROW model is one of the most effective models for natural coaching through questioning techniques.  It is also vital to strategy as it provides a method to move the organization toward a high maturity level and allows leaders to let go.

How can it make a difference in an organization? 

Coaching makes a difference in an organization because it invokes intuitive techniques that resolve problems.  It can be vital for creating a bottoms-up approach since ideas and solutions are rising from the bottom of the organization.

What does this mean to you and your organization? 

It means that coaching has a dual purpose as it is an effective method to use for resolving problems, obtaining ideas, etc. and it also is a way to move the organization toward higher levels of followership and encouraging followers to take the lead.  What it really means is that coaches need to be pulled in more frequently as a tool for assisting the organization to emerge.

As far as my organization, I see it as a wonderful opportunity to leverage on a coach to help our organization move from the predominant traditional approached company to one that shows signs of an adaptive transition through coaching.  Using those ideas and creativity captured during the coaching sessions to push them to the top of the company for possible solutions, or at least recognize the power that is coming up from the bottom of the organization.

Obolensky, N. (2010); Chapter 10. Complex Adaptive Leadership. Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty. Grower Publishing Company, Surrey, England