Why is Coaching Important in Leadership?
A leader or manager is no longer just an authoritative presence in the workplace. It makes more sense that managers today throw off the constraints of traditional and outdated styles of leadership, revealing their authentic selves and adopting a companywide inclusive and coaching style of leadership to foster positive change among their employees and achieve…
Managing Using a Coaching Mindset – The Benefits!
Coaching and managing are often seen as one and the same thing but being a great manager does not always mean being a great coach and vice versa, although some of the core skills in both these approaches do overlap from time to time, the main principles are different. Let’s take a look at the…
What is Burnout?
Have you ever felt like the demands and responsibilities upon you are far more than your ability to cope on a consistent basis? If the answer is yes, then you might be suffering from burnout, or at the very least, severe stress. This article will take a look at what burnout is, why it occurs,…
How to Measure the Effectiveness of Coaching
What exactly is effective coaching? To answer this question, clear outcome objectives need to be clarified at the onset of coaching to effectively measure success. As coaches, we support a coaching process that creates intrinsic behavioural transformations by improving employees and their leader’s approach to working. This guided approach provides results, a solid impact on…
When to Use a Business Mentor, Coach or Consultant and their Key Differences
You have probably heard a lot of words like consultant, coach and mentor being talked about in business circles but, what you might not know is the difference between them or which one to reach out to. Perhaps you know deep down you need some extra support for your own business but don’t know where…
How Can You Develop Emotional Resilience?
Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt and cope well with daily stressors and unexpected events with ease; allowing you to make your own choices about how you want to feel in any situation. Your own emotional resilience is built up by genetics and then many factors throughout your life including, age, gender, upbringing or…
5 Ways Coaching Helps Employees
Coaching leadership practices have boomed for good reason, not only does coaching help the management team to do their job effectively, but it also has benefits for employees too. Leaders who adopt a coaching mindset and demonstrate this to their employees are much more likely to see an improvement in productivity, overall atmosphere within the…
How to Create a Coaching Culture
A coaching culture has many benefits to a business, its people and its processes and is successful when leaders open up the lines of communication and consider the needs of their personnel at a profound level. A coaching culture incorporates the company as a whole and some of the benefits include: • Creativity and collaboration…
How Coaching Can Reduce Workplace Stress!
Stress is our body’s way of reacting to external demands, but when those demands are higher than our ability to cope, stress is the natural response. A certain amount of stress in the workplace is healthy and means that we can react appropriately to demanding or high pressure situations in the short term, however, when…
4 Misconceptions of Coaching
If you are not familiar with business coaching, it’s many benefits and purpose may not be immediately obvious to you, or maybe you have even heard of popular misconceptions and want to arm yourself with further knowledge before seeking the services of a coach. Before we go ahead with the misconceptions, let us explain what…