You’d really like your managers and your employees to be working consistently at their optimum so that your business achieves its targets. You probably use training courses to improve their productivity through skills and knowledge development. But did you know that only 15% of success is attributed to technical/functional skills?
If your business trains only for skill development you are missing a significant and crucial element to business success. The other 85% of success is directly related to how your people behave and how they interact with one another. Unfortunately this is not something a training course has a real impact on. Why? The reason is that when we deal with people and behaviour we need to change habits and perceptions and this requires a very different approach.
How can you improve your leaders and employees so that they work better together? Consider hiring a leadership coach.
Why a coach? Here are five benefits of coaching over training.
1. Execution.
Only 57% of Australian companies met or exceeded their profit targets for the 2014/2015 financial year. How important is it for your business to meet targets? A Coach will work with the leaders &/or the leadership team to develop strategies for achieving the targets, holding them accountable for their actions. Coaching for execution will add significantly to business success.
2. Communication
Improving communication has long been a key focus in business and an area where a Coach will add significant value. Engagement, influence, and negotiation are the foundations of a great business and competencies best achieved through coaching. Relationships are not the result of good communication. Good communication is the relationship.
3. Innovation.
It’s a special talent to execute on strategy whilst enabling innovative thinking. Adapting the product, processes, and systems to keep ahead of the game can be stifled by having a mindset that acts against encouraging novel ideas and problem solving. Coaches encourage Leaders to discover, test, and implement a better mindset that increases their ability to trust and take risks and hence innovate.
4. Stress Management.
Today all employees and leaders have to cope with workplace stress and pressure in order to maintain motivation and productivity. But how many do? The business world is more complex and more demanding than it ever has been and this isn’t going to change. Many struggle to cope becoming demotivated, overwhelmed, and disengaged. Coaching helps individuals and teams develop strategies to effectively deal with an uncertain and often changing working environment and remain effective.
5. Time Management.
Highly productive employees and leaders manage their time effectively and assertively. Coaches help develop the discipline, systems and courage needed to manage time and deliver on expectations without the need for excessive working hours.
What is the best investment you can make this year? Hire a Coach. Call 0416 921 233 and get your free consultation.
