If you are a Professional in the Leadership Development field, you know that you can invest a lot to produce quality programs, but you may still fall short of the final result you are looking for—evidenced change in behavior.
1. Even the best Leadership Programs result in just 20% of follow-on participants achieving their goals over time. Coaching gets it to 80% or more. Participants reach new levels of understanding and awareness in programs, but get stuck on the how-to’s of applying insights to their own real-time issues. Coaching partners with a leader to continually apply insights to real-time and real-world issues over a period of four to six months. Coaching greatly increases commitment, follow-through, and long-term application to leading to real changes in behavior use Coaching alone or have it immediately follow a Leadership classroom program.
2. For Senior Leaders or others that need development, a 3-5 day leadership program may not be the answer. Coaching works well where ongoing quick, and effective support is needed at intervals, as support for important new hires, to navigate through sticky relationship issues, when maneuvering through a tough political landscape is crucial, for the development of high potentials.
3. To increase retention of high level executives and high potential leaders. Coaching provides an added edge to these critical resources. Companies report higher ratings on evaluations of performance and faster promotion rates among those coached. In almost all cases, coaching focuses career progression issues and helps a leader to develop long-range strategies and day-to-day tactics for success. Coaching also often deals with boss relationships which are critical to retention.
4. A team workshop gets a team off to a good start, but the team leader, and often team members, need more support when real challenges confront the team in the weeks and months after the workshop. Coaching can supplement team development and keep it going. Complete teams or critical team members can be coached for greater synergy.