Leadership Coaching Creates Future Ready Leaders
October 30, 2018
What is the single most important element for companies to ready for the future? Answer: Leadership coaching.
Leadership Coaching Helps With These Challenges:
- Ability to innovate
- Increasing speed of technology changes
- Attracting and retaining talent
- Breaking down silos
- Disengaged employees
Each of the above challenges can be solved by effective coaching to help leaders be better leaders.
Leadership coaching provides one on one learning.
The right leadership coach can quickly elevate a leaders ability to increase his or her impact on the team and on the business.
The leadership skills of the past are a base line for leaders to be effective today.
Traditional leadership skills such as communication skills, conflict management skills, negotiation skills, and leadership skills are not enough for leaders to be effective today.
Today and in the future the skills leaders need are, change leadership skills, technology skills, agility skills, innovation skills and team motivation skills to name a few.
Organizations that provide leadership coaching for their leaders are 63% more successful at attracting and retaining their employees.
Companies that help their leaders to increase their technology skills increase innovation by 54%.
Leaders who learn how to be better ‘humans’ by increasing emotional intelligence, creative intelligence and generational intelligence are better leaders.
Future ready leaders have higher success rates in attracting and retaining employees.
The best in house leadership coaching programs help leaders be more flexible, more tech savvy and more inspiring.
If your company does not have the right people to coach leaders at a high level you will want to look at outsourcing to a leadership coaching firm.
The best leadership coaches provides leaders with new ideas, new energy and expanded ability to innovate and inspire teams.
When looking to hire outsourced leadership coaches ask the following:
- Does the leadership coaching focus on future ready coaching?
- What is the leadership coaching accountability process ?
- How will the leadership coaches measure progress of the leaders being coached?
- Does the leadership coach provide links to company strategies and performance goals?
Investing in leadership coaching is a key success factor in helping leaders to be future ready.
Providing the skills, resources and development helps leaders to be at his or her very best and ultimately to help create future ready teams.