Coaching – An effective leadership development tool

Dr.S.SUNDARARAJAN

Associate Professor – MBA

Introduction

Effective coaching is about achieving goals. The coach helps the employee set meaningful ones and identify specific behaviors or steps for meeting them and also clarifies milestones or measures of success and holds the employee accountable for them. we should seed our organization with coaching role models

Key Coaching Skills

Goal-setting: Coaching is a goal-focused (or solution-focused) approach, so the ability to elicit clear, well-defined and emotionally engaging goals from a coachee is one of the most important skills for a coach to possess. The following are the key coaching skills like Looking, Listening, Empathizing, Questioning, Giving feedback, Intuiting, Checking Etc.

Principles for successful coaching

• The Coaching Spirit.
• Relationship and Trust.
• Asking Questions and Curiosity.
• Listening and Intuition.
• Feedback and Awareness.
• Suggestions and Simplification.
• Goals and Action Plans.
• Accountability and Accomplishments.

 

Success Coaching: It is done through dialogue, inquiry, goal setting, accountability and general motivational techniques, the Coach supports the client to assume full responsibility for creating a fulfilling life. He also helps people to set better goals and then reach those goals

Probably the most widely known and used model is the GROW coaching model. This simple model helps the coach to take care of your coachee from goal setting,

The 5 Essentials to Effective Coaching

Build trust by developing a real relationship. The best leaders concentrate more on their team’s success than their own.

• Listen, listen, and listen.
• Use positivity as your base.
• Aim for one target.
• Be a consistent presence.

How should companies provide coaching?

• Decide what you want to accomplish.
• Set a goal with your employees.
• Make a roadmap for reaching the goal with milestones along the way.
• Give feedback.
• Make sure your coaching is aligned with your company’s core values.

 

Benefits of Coaching for Individuals

• Establish and act towards achieving goals. Coaching gives the individual an opportunity to define their career goals in a realistic way.
• Increased engagement.
• Safe Place to Gain Perspective.
• Deeper Level of Learning.
• Build Personal Awareness.
• Support for Improving Specific Skills.

Endnote:

Coach practitioners have a great deal of flexibility when working with coaching models. The client’s experience is underpinned by a range of factors, including culture, education, life experience and personality. Leadership can also be developed by strengthening the connection and alignment of the efforts of individual leaders and the systems through which they influence organizational operations. Each and every process which is done by leader and  play a major role for the individual personal development, team development and company development.