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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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

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