Michael Josephson, renowned ethics expert and founder of Josephson Institute, once said, “A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.” You may read this quotation and recall images of the stereotypical sports coach—someone in a ball cap shouting from the sidelines with a whistle and clipboard in hand. However, today’s coaches come in many forms and can be found in many places—even an office.
The modern working world is, in many ways, similar to the world of athletics. Both rely heavily on dynamic teamwork, proficiency in a skill, members doing their part, and a good coach.
A good leadership coach can help you move from where you are to where you want to be. They see past what is and find what could be. And, the right coach can recognize the potential within you and help you unlock that potential.
Further, a great leadership coach can push you to grow both inside and outside the workplace.
Let’s dive into some of the benefits a great leadership coach can offer.
What can a coach offer you?
1. Enhanced perspective
Sometimes, an honest and detached perspective is exactly what's needed to help bring clarity to the bigger picture. That’s the perspective an executive coach can offer—and where a great one shines. A leadership coach can help you look beyond what you see immediately around you and open the window to the bigger picture. What’s more, a skilled coach can help you gain an awareness of yourself—your own views, perspectives, and even limiting behaviors and mindsets. Do you know why you do what you do? An objective coach may bring the vantage point you need to figure it out.
2. Strength-based implementation
Whereas traditional coaching strategies have, in the past, focused on “fixing” an individual’s weaknesses, a skilled leadership coach can offer and implement a strength-based approach, focused on growing an individual’s potential. The strength-based approach shifts the focus and energy from the often punitive task of completely eliminating negative behaviors to a more embracing approach that focuses on developing preexisting strengths and talents. Through the strength-based method, a coach typically assesses your strengths and determines a strategy that best complements them.
3. A boost in accountability
A standout coach should also provide the push you need to fully embrace personal accountability. Accountability isn’t merely accepting responsibilities for what you’ve done or failed to do. Rather, accountability is the action of taking responsibility for your behaviors, talents, and motivations—that is, accounting for your own ability. An effective leadership coach should inspire you to take ownership of your abilities. And that enables you to foster a greater sense of responsibility for and commitment to your own growth.
4. Personalized strategies to staying motivated
Personal growth and goal achievement are hard feats to accomplish without a clear sense of purpose and strong motivation. However, motivation can be hard to find and even harder to maintain, regardless of how purpose-driven you are. The right coach can offer experience, insights, and even tools that help you identify the motivators—both internal and external—you need to keep you moving along your growth journey.
5. A call to self-awareness
Self-awareness is paramount to achieving growth. Without an accurate sense of self, we lose touch of where we are and, thus, can never truly reach our destination or realize our full potential. In fact, self-awareness is so crucial to personal development that it’s modeled as one of the five components of emotional health according to psychologist Daniel Goleman. The right leadership coach will strive to help you increase your awareness of self, leading to a renewed vision and purpose.
Do you need a coach?
If you answer yes to either of these questions, then it may be time to enlist the help of a coach.
Are you looking to improve your own productivity?
Enlisting the help of a coach reflects the desire for growth and improvement, not any personal flaw or professional incompetence. If you’re looking to boost productivity and achieve goals while inspiring those around you to do the same, it may be time to consult with a leadership coach. According to a Metrix Global study, executive (or leadership) coaching offers a 788% return on investment when including factors like enhanced productivity and employee retention. In fact, the International Coaching Federation recently reported that those who have consulted with an executive coach notice a 70% increase in individual productivity and a 50% increase in team performance.
Does your organization need a productivity boost?
Coaching can certainly boost your own performance, but, perhaps more importantly, recent data suggests it may also increase the productivity of your organization. A recent Harvard Business Review study indicates organizations that provided leadership coaching reported significantly higher employee productivity and engagement levels. By addressing individual and team challenges, fostering skill development, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement, a leadership coach can play a pivotal role in helping leaders and their teams drive organizational success.
Effective coaching can help you and those in your organization increase productivity, fulfill goals, and realize potential—both professional and personal. The Growth Group founder and Success Whisperer Carl F. Hicks, Jr. offers leadership coaching aimed at empowering leaders of all levels to visualize that next level of professional and even personal success, while building up natural strengths, reworking perceptual constraints, reframing limiting behaviors. Discover exactly how a great coach can change your performance in the workplace and in life.
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