Creating a Coaching Organization – Part 1 – By Manoj Sharma
January 30, 2007
CXOs, Presidents, Directors, Managers and Leaders please take note… Professional Coaching is designed to assist the average become good; the good become great; and the great to be truly outstanding. Therefore Professional Coaching is a core leadership competency you need to keep enhancing to bring out the best in your people.
We live in a world in which, business, technology and life have integrated inseparably on a global scale. This has created a highly competitive “always on culture”.
We live in a world in which there is a huge demand for people to not just have a solid formal education, but also a solid informal education. The former and the latter combined has resulted in an integration we can call “formal-informal education” and it has fast become a prerequisite for economies, organizations, teams and individuals to stay ahead of the pack.
We live in a world in which there are no longer clear lines between our career/business, relationships and life. This has caused endless challenges with respect to work-life balance and thrown up the need for us to be able to handle “work-life integration”.
We live in a world in which there is an information overload and in which the integrity of information is getting hard to vouch for. This has resulted in mass confusion and led to a situation in which we can no longer be certain what the best course of action is. We need to think for ourselves and figure out what’s true, not just make decisions based on facts. We need “principle-based, immediately-actionable, core-knowledge” to thrive.
We live in a world in which customer driven demand is creating new business models, new technologies and new outlooks on life, whether we are a part of it or not. This has led to the “instant change” phenomenon.
How do we survive, live and thrive in a world, which seemingly is putting insurmountable pressure on us as individuals, teams, organizations and economies?
Sure, we have heard numerous times that we need to be quick, flexible and progressive. We need to think out of the box, embrace change, create on the fly and deliver timely results.
“But, how are we to do these things…” – I can hear you ask, “..when employee retention is low, customer focus seems to be given lip service to, motivating people is exhaustive, market competition and scrutiny keeps increasing, when margins are getting tight, when value propositions get speedily eroded and so on?”
The solution lies in Creating Coaching Organizations.
So what is a coaching organization?
Please read Part 2 of Creating a Coaching Organization to find out.
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