What One-on-One Leadership Coaching can do for you

“Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”
— Eric Schmidt, Former CEO, Google

                  “The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.”
— Harvard Business Review


As a New Director, , Manager, Physician or Nurse leading a team,
Do you sometimes wish a meteorite would crash into your office so you have a good enough reason not to return to work?
Do you constantly wonder if your boss was raised by wild animals?
Do the words “Oh, grow up” frequently cross your mind while you’re talking with your direct reports?
Statistics show that over 80% of people leave their jobs because of their managers. In an age where one can track someone down in China about a hundred million times faster than Marco Polo, have leadership practices evolved much, or are organizations simply using different words to express the same confusion?
For most new managers and directors, a sudden leap into leadership may seem like dancing across the bowling alley in a tutu.
Yet, you are left on your own to perform, usually to the detriment of your direct reports and peers.

One-on-one leadership coaching can help.

Since 2005, Discerning Leadership™ has been personalizing coaching programs for C-level Executives (CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CHROs),
Physicians and Nurse Leaders, Business Owners and Non-profit Directors to suit their unique goals and needs. 

One-on-One Coaching focuses on:

• Identifying and overcoming hidden barriers that impact the way leaders communicate
• The ability to successfully overcome significant challenges like deteriorating employee performance, severe project delays and the loss of key clients or employees
• Creating high-functioning, collaborative teams who have minimal conflict
​• The ability to align and coordinate actions across the organization in a way that achieves goals
• The skill to manage stress in an increasingly complex and fast-moving world

According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), the leading professional coach association, for every dollar invested, there is an average return of $4.30 to $7.90. They also found that training combined with coaching increases productivity by four times more than training alone. This is especially relevant given that almost 85% of training content is forgotten after two weeks.

In a separate survey, Fast Company magazine found that 92% of leaders who have been coached said that they plan to hire a coach again.

Organizations that provide coaching report benefits through improvements in:

– Employee retention, especially among those receiving coaching
– Cost reduction and bottom line profitability
– Customer service and reduced customer complaints

The managers and directors receiving coaching report these benefits:
– Improved working relationships with direct reports, supervisors, peers and customers
– Reduction in conflicts
– Increase in organizational commitment
– Acceleration of change initiatives
– Improved employee engagement scores
– Ability to move into a leadership role
– Improved team performance
– Significant improvements in productivity and use of time
– Greater job satisfaction and fulfillment
— Reduced stress

The best way to measure the return on investment for executive coaching is by identifying specific challenges that your organization wishes to address with coaching. Then we can set specific goals and ways to measure progress throughout the coaching process. That way, measurement and results are baked in and you are more likely to achieve the return on investment you seek.

Useful articles on coaching
1. What CEOs really want from coaching -- Harvard Business Review, Mar 2013
2. Five Reasons Why CEOs Need to be Coached -- Entrepreneur magazine, May 2016
3. Want to get great at something? Get a Coach TED talk by Dr. Atul Gawande

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