The promise of coaching and facilitation is:
- Things will go faster: if you have a goal in mind, coaching will cut the path to get there in 1/2.
- Things will go better: higher performance, more collaboration, met commitments.
- Things will be easier: planning, strategizing, executing will all go smoother.
Why?
- People will be seen: not just what they do, but how they do it and be able to improve on it or pivot.
- People will be heard: more perspectives will be shared, quieter voices will open up, authority won’t dictate good ideas.
- People will be valued: excellence will be noticed, teamwork will be celebrated, leaders will be recognized.
What results?
Higher revenue and retention of the best-fit performers. Long-term data on coaching in organizations is starting to prove this out.
The snag is if you’re doing X to get to Y, the discrepancy will be noticeable. Meaning…seeing, hearing, valuing in order for things to be faster, better, easier.
The tricky part is that the process is the outcome.
Seeing, hearing, and valuing people must result in them truly being seen, heard, and valued.
And when they truly are, only then things will be faster, better, and easier.
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