5 times your workforce needs a coaching journey

Professional coaching as a service has been available for more than 25 years with many stories of how individuals and teams have achieved success through it.

With the ROI and effectiveness of the coaching gaining accepted, more organisations are hiring coaches.

When I look back at my corporate journey of 17 years, these are the key moments where I feel a coach would have benefitted me:

1) Heading a function: As finance head and reporting to the business head, I realized the need to figure out my leadership style. Functional decisions both technical and for the team rested at my table and I needed to introspect on a routine basis to deliver the best business results.

2) Getting promoted: With every level change, responsibilities got added. A coach could have helped me find my way to manage people and their expectations as well move the team to a common vision and goal.

3) Remaining objective: I had my fair share of politics to face, be it with peers or with other departments. I wanted to be heard, avoid overthinking, not participate in gossip and conserve my energy. This is when a coach could have helped me navigate an approach.

4) Being creative: Sometimes I felt, my potential was not being utilized. I wanted someone to challenge my thinking and what I could do with the given resources and constraints.

5) Maintaining work-life balance: Sometimes I would give undue importance to work and neglect family and realize later when there was burnout. I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings on a regular basis and take steps to lead a more balanced life.

Coaching allows me to listen to the most important person who impacts my career - me. And for the organization, it helps to build an equitable and meritorious culture.