Do You Want to Create a Coaching Culture?
Smart leaders learn how to create a coaching culture as part of their overall talent management strategy to attract, develop, engage, and retain high performers.
We know from our best places to work employee engagement survey research that 85% of highly disengaged employees don’t receive enough coaching from their boss. We also know employees who prefer coaching from direct managers as a form of professional development are 5.6 percentage points more engaged than those who don’t want coaching.
Make Coaching Part of Your Workplace Culture
In order for coaching to be an accepted, relevant, and effective form of employee performance improvement, it needs to be ingrained into how work gets done in your organizational culture. Think of coaching as an ongoing and organization-wide program, a cultural element that drives your internal people operations and the success of your business.
Four Proven Ways to Create a Coaching Culture
Who gives feedback? Who receives feedback? How often should feedback occur? How to provide effective feedback? and What is the goal of a coaching session?
Make coaching part of your processes and traditions, from new employee on-boarding and appraisals to everyday conversations.
The Bottom Line
When employees are properly pushed to learn and raise performance, they’ll be more equipped to do their job, more motivated to go the extra mile, and more likely to produce high-quality results. In fact, organizations with employees who are coached effectively and frequently improve their business results by 21%, compared to those who don’t coach employees
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