Small Business Coaches Do Your Clients Have Innovative Organizations?
Do You Have an Innovative Organization?
Research has shown that the most effective leaders at leading and adapting to change at any level in the organization are those that have the highest level of emotional intelligence.
Many intractable problems in the workplace are the result of poor communication and lack of self awareness and other emotional intelligence competencies.
The components of knowledge, skills, and abilities that compose emotional intelligence can be learned. Coaching and mentoring are highly effective mechanisms to support this type of competency building.
The challenge is to accelerate the development of leaders and institutionalize leadership as a core competency throughout your organization. Coaching and mentoring are effective tools for impacting the development of future leaders and creating environments that support continuous learning.
Coaching is the artful use of conversation utilizing the communication skills of affirmative listening, giving feedback, and asking effective questions to create a process of learning, change, and accountability.
The coach helps the client establish a vision for change, clarify and set goals, shift perspective to see new possibilities, develop new action strategies.
The coach requests action, holds the clients accountable to what they say they want and what they will do, and draws out the clients’ inherent wisdom and intelligence.
Mentoring is a long-term relational process for developing an individual under the close guidance of a teacher, counselor, or leader who knows how to navigate within the culture of the protégé’s organization.
Mentoring generally refers to a relationship between two individuals, the mentor and the mentee that uses coaching skills to guide the learning and growth of a protégé who seeks to acquire or strengthen competencies needed to improve job performance and career progression.
Coaching and mentoring programs are used to develop knowledge, skills, and abilities that produce real and lasting results beyond just delivering information as is typically done in most training courses.
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