With all the costs involved of running a business of any size, executive leadership coaching is low in the priority list for many business owners. But in reality, investing in executive leadership training is one of the best things you can do for your business.
Today 's economy is fickle and precarious and nearly all businesses are feeling the effects. Far from having the luxury of employing executive leadership coaching, many companies have to deal with deciding where to cut costs in order to make up for decreased revenues.
Unfortunately, some companies believe one of the easiest ways to do this is to cut their employee training budget. Deemphasizing or illuminating the costs of executive leadership coaching programs may prove to be a short-term gain, but businesses interested in long-term viability need to understand that to be successful they must continually develop their people, especially their leaders.
The American Society of Training and Development conducted a study surveying HR Directors at small, Chicago-based, start-up companies and found that leadership training was their number one professional challenge. Another recent study showed that companies with regular executive leadership coaching consistently outperform companies who do not train their people by about 35%. These findings are consistent with those of previous studies, and prove that proper executive leadership coaching is one of the single most effective ways to improve productivity at every level of a business.
There are all different kinds of executive leadership coaching programs. The best ones (the ones that have been proven to have most positive and lasting results) promote leadership in three phases;Plan for Leadership Development. The first part of planning an executive leadership coaching program is to examine what you currently have in place.
The next planning step is to begin identifying characteristics of people who are already successful leaders in your company. Every company has a unique culture that favors particular characteristics. The key to building a successful executive leadership coaching program begins with looking at successful people. Ascertain what it is about them that makes them successful. Chances are you will begin to notice patterns of common experience, educational background, training, communication skills, and interpersonal relationship skills.
The next phase is Practice Leadership Development.
Once you have decided on characteristics you want your leaders to emulate and have defined what "success" looks like, it 's time to implement the program. Start small, with one or two people. This will allow you to test your executive leadership coaching program and make adjustments. There are different ways to begin the program, but nearly all successful ones include elements of: Effective business communication,Conflict resolution skills,Team building,Relating to different personality styles,Time management,Delegation skills, Goal setting,Critical coaching skills,Other areas specific to your business.
The last phase is to Promote Leadership Development. Once you have refined your executive leadership coaching program by working with a couple of leaders, you are ready to start promoting the program. One way to start is by informing potential employees of your executive leadership coaching in the interview process. This ensures that all new employees start out with the company developing good habits.
Executive leadership coaching is absolutely critical to the success of business, especially small to medium sized companies. Successful companies understand that "people are our most valuable asset," and therefore, developing people through effective executive leadership coaching is a most important investment. Smart companies are beginning to recognize that leadership development and people training is a process, not an event. So executive leadership coaching deserves more than just the annual workshop attention.
About the Author:
Executive leadership coaching (http://www.partnersinleadership.com/) is crucial for developing the personnel of any company. The author Art Gib is a freelance writer.
I couldn't agree more with the necessity of leadership development. Coaching is an excellent method for receiving individual support. Coaching can be coupled with peer group interaction to accelerate the rate of learning. Check out www.vistage.com for some ideas.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more with the necessity of leadership development. Coaching is an excellent method for receiving individual support. Coaching can be coupled with peer group interaction to accelerate the rate of learning. Check out www.vistage.com for some ideas.
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ReplyDeleteCoaching can be an effective part of any leadership program, and it can take many forms. External executive coaches for high level senior managers, internal coaches for new, struggling, or high potential managers, as well as training managers on how to coach. At my company, we use all three.
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In these trying times of finding adequate labor and skills to run the operations, we certainly are spending much more on training costs. However, I have get frustrated with the organizations that throw training at a crowd as if one size fits all. This is a horrible waste of these training resources. Choosing the right audience sounds like a simple endeavor; however, we hardly ever get it right. In many training sessions, you have a few who really would benefit more from a synopsis or a quick email rather than the full-blown course. As you choose your audience, try to get away from the group or department mindset. Training the wrong person not only wastes your time and the company’s money, but it also aggravates the person you have at gunpoint.
ReplyDeleteAs a whole, we all developed our training model after old Mrs. Snodgrass in the third grade. She was the teacher, you were the pupil, and you better sit there and be quiet as she drones on about the ABCs. Adult learners are quite different. Unlike third-graders, most adults see themselves as responsible for their own decisions and lives. Adult need to know why they need to learn something. In addition, each class may have a wide variety of ages in attendance. As much as it hurts me, I will be the first to confess that the older people need more time to learn than the younger set. People in their fifties, sixties, and seventies can learn new techniques and acquire new knowledge just as well as younger people. However, the older ones will need a little more time. When you mix your training class with both young and old, you will have some who are bored and some who are struggling. Be aware of this and come up with creative solutions. Michael L. Gooch, SPHR Author of Wingtips with Spurs: Cowboy Wisdom for Today’s Business Leaders http://www.michaellgooch.com
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Couldn’t agree more with this blog as executive leadership training is indeed a wise thought to utilize in this highly competitive market. Achieving sustenance with stability is quite a difficult job, but with the executive leadership training, one can sail through with absolute ease. This coaching can help develop people management and relationship which eventually can become the greatest aspect of the company.
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