Coach friendly organizations and all the rest
Trends are clear. Finding talent is hard. Retaining talent is harder and for some organizations next to impossible. Not only are major corporations embracing executive coaching; they are now training their leaders to be coaches. It used to be that organizational leaders were taught how to do triage and fix things before they got too out of hand. A reactive organization rarely retains talent as rising stars want to be affiliated with companies and government departments that are known for their cutting edge style of leadership. Coaching is no longer an intervention; it’s now become an organization’s culture.
Human Capital
def: The set of skills which an employee acquires on the job, through training and experience, and which increase that employee’s value in the marketplace. Add coaching to the equation which helps a staffer evolve into his/her level of excellence and you have a dynamic and attractive workplace. If the staff knows they’ll be valued, trained, coached and grown, they’ll stick around a lot longer than if the opposite were true.
Where is your organization in the scheme of things?
Are you growing your staff or burning them out? Are you integrating coaching into their everyday worlds so they get the support and feedback they need to help them and the organization fly? The chasm is ever widening. Those organizations that promote coaching and who are measuring their success based on human capital are the ones that will stand out among the rest. It’s already happening.
Look at the DNA of successful organizations and you’ll see a place that grows its people. Look at the exodus rate of some organizations and you’ll see places that don’t care about their people at all. For those talented individuals, where do you think they’ll want to be working? Just as look at successful coaches and where they’re ‘playing’. They are picking and choosing clients who want to fly. They’re not in fix-it mode. If you’re fixing, time to switch to building mode. You have to live it, eat it breathe it. If you build it through a coaching culture, they will come.
“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” — HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
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Last but not least…
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I’ll leave you with this:
Asked for a conservative estimate of the the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies. — FORTUNE MAGAZINE
With deepest respect,
Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
A Better Perspective
http://www.abetterperspective.com
ISSN 1913-6307
Bouncing Balls
I’m going to contradict myself in a moment. As a Coach we look at life and all it encompasses from every angle. On one hand, I understand when Anthony Smith says “To achieve a high level of competency, work/life balance doesn’t happen. Something’s gotta give.”
Take my son’s surgeon for example. This woman worked up to 40 hours at a time on one surgery. Is it possible to have any kind of life when this is the norm for her? Absolutely not. Is it imperative we have people like her in the world who can do such amazing work? Definitely! Is it up to me as a Coach to lecture her about work life balance? No. It’s up to her to make that choice and for me to support her in her choices.
On the other hand, to quote the past CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises (1959-1994) Brian Dyson, “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.”
What balls are you dropping? There’s the contradiction. Why the contradiction? Because it’s all about paying attention. Only by paying attention to what you’re living and what you want in your life and seeing if they’re in alignment, can you make the choices that work for you. Our lives are filled with contradictions!
Is it all about hours you put in?
No. You can be working an 8 hour day, and even though you go home at the end of the day, if you take your stressors and problems home with you, well, you might not be working but you might as well be as you’re not ‘present’; your mind is miles away.
What can you do about it?
If nothing else, make a list for yourself to get to first thing in the morning. Like that rubber ball, those problems will still be there waiting for you tomorrow. It’s not to say procrastinate, avoid and shove everything in the closet. It’s saying “I can’t do anything about it right now, so I’m going to park it until tomorrow, go home and do my thing for now, knowing it’ll be waiting for me in the morning and maybe…just maybe not seem so overwhelming when I’ve had a chance to sleep on it. Maybe you’ll have more clarity of thought when you do get back to it or realize it wasn’t as earth shattering as you first thought. Regardless…that ball will bounce back. Or you can call someone whose insights you trust, set up a conversation for the following day and wait until you have an added perspective and support so you’re not going it alone. You’ll figure it out, don’t you think?
Last but not least…
As always this newsletter will be posted here http://www.perspectivesinbrief.com/. If you like it, please forward the web link to others though, pricing specials are only available to subscribers.
Our blog can be found at http://betterperspective.blogspot.com/ If you want deeper insight into human behavior, yours and others, then sign up for It’s All About You…and Others, at: http://www.itsallaboutyouandothers.com/intro.htm
I’ll leave you with this:
“The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you “come to terms with” only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.” - Ingrid Bengis
Make sure those questions are answered.
With deepest respect,
Donna Karlin
Founder and Principal
A Better Perspective
http://www.abetterperspective.com/
ISSN 1913-6307
