The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as a "partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential."
Coaching helps you develop your potential, explore untapped possibilities, and overcome obstacles on the path to success. It is an interactive process that, using coaching techniques and tools, facilitates the development of new behaviors, strengthens the ability to manage change, and co-creates the process between the coach and the client.
Every individual and organization is unique, so the solutions that arise during the coaching experience are specific to your needs. Coaching can be conducted individually or in groups and with various approaches (integral, leadership, transformational, systemic, holistic, NLP, organizational, Jungian, etc.).
Investing in learning coaching skills is not just about achieving business results; it's also about personal growth, developing thinking strategies, and changing limiting behavioral patterns, your own as well people you lead. To lead with coaching skills, integrating coaching leadership into everyday interactions and enhancing individual and organizational growth.
Coaching Skills for Leaders: New Perspectives for Better Results
The definition by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) states that coaching is an accelerative leadership style or management that integrates coaching skills into everyday interactions to enhance individual and organizational growth.
When leading teams or goal-oriented discussions, we can use targeted questions and techniques that encourage thinking beyond established patterns. Leaders who enhance their leadership skills with a coaching approach enable the growth and development of individuals and achieve better results.
Coaching Studies
In the annual survey, the International Coach Federation (ICF) presented findings that companies want to develop their own coaching capabilities, conduct coaching, and analyze individual knowledge, experience, skills, and traits to develop a personalized individual development plan based on that. All to acquire the desired competencies for high performance, creating appropriate support, and redirecting energy into the future.
The same survey showed that the most common reasons why coaching is needed include improving team effectiveness (43% of respondents), followed by improving communication skills (39% of respondents), increasing efficiency (38% of respondents), improving self-esteem (36%), and improving business leadership strategy (33%).
ICF measurement results also indicate that:
Individuals improve interpersonal relationships by more than 60% and become more satisfied at work.
Their efficiency increases significantly, by more than 50%.
In team leadership, there is even a 70% improvement in team dynamics, as goals, internal and external processes, interpersonal relationships, and ways of shared learning are aligned.
Coaching for Sustainable Leadership
Worldwide trends and research show that coaching is one of the most effective approaches to employee development and creating a collaborative culture. Investment in coaching support brings not only business results but also personal growth, the development of thinking strategies, and a change in limiting patterns.
Step onto the path of sustainable leadership with the help of coaching!
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