Management Development Coaching

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch

” Coaching is the facilitation of learning and development with the purpose of improving performance and enhancing effective action, goal achievement and personal satisfaction. It invariably involves growth and change, whether that is in perspective, attitude or behaviour.” Peter Bluckert:2005

Managers /Leaders come to coaching because they want things to be different – they are looking for change or they have an important goal to reach. This goal might be very specific (for example, to deliver a major change within the organisation, to effect a significant change in lifestyle) or might be more general (e.g. help me move through this period of transition in work or in life). More often than not, it is managers who choose coaching as a way of developing themselves and, in many cases, they choose coaching because it is so customised, because it is an intensive form of development that helps to accelerate change, and because they are facing issues which have no text-book solutions or precedents.

You want a coach who has (i) a good understanding of the business environment, (ii) a good understanding of management and leadership as well as organisational dynamics and cultures so that they can demonstrate a good intuitive grasp of ‘where you’re coming from’ and (iii) a good understanding of the processes of personal development and change, and interpersonal dynamics and relationships.

Coaching Process Overview