A633.8.3.RB- How Do Coaches Help?
One of the most important parts of
the coaching statement is, “It is necessary to know that clients are the first
and best expert capable of solving their own problems and achieving their own
ambitions.” This statement supports what Nick Obolensky (2010) writes about the
GROW model for coaching. Rather than
directing their clients on what to do, coaches should just guide them in the
right direction and help clients find solutions on their own. Coaching is important for leadership and
strategy in an organization.
Coaching is important to leadership
and strategy in an organization for several reasons. First, the act of coaching itself helps
leaders to gain important leadership skills that can only be gained through
practice. Every person is unique and has
unique problems, therefore, the more people one coaches, the more experience
and skill he or she will gain. As far as
strategy goes, coaching helps clients to learn the skills to solve problems on
their own in the future. Whereas telling
a person how to do something will enable them to solve that exact problem in
the future, coaching a person will help them to build the skills necessary to
solve many different problems in the future.
This long-term benefit of coaching is very important to the strategy of
an organization.
As discussed, coaching can make a
big difference in an organization in both improving leadership and strategy,
and improving relationships between the people being coached and the
coaches. Coaching makes a very positive
impact on an organization, which means that my organization and I need to start
taking coaching more seriously. Right
now, coaching is not emphasized by leadership, but if we want to be the best
that we can be, we need to start emphasizing coaching.
References:
Obolensky,
N. (2010). Complex Adaptive Leadership. Ashgate
Publishing.
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