8 Benefits of Workplace Coaching Sessions for Your Business

Have you ever taken part in coaching – as a participant, not the coach? If so, you know that part of the process is enjoying coaching’s numerous benefits. There are wide-ranging benefits to personal coaching. But the career of an individual can be positively impacted by engaging in workplace coaching. Across a wide range of needs, coaching in the workplace can help individuals develop – not just in their careers, but even on a level that is more personal. Some of the benefits of workplace coaching include the following:

• Build communication skills that are more effective
• Work performance improvement
• Confidence boosting

To each individual, however, benefits can be very specific and include far more than the three just mentioned. For your organization’s team members, and for yourself, the benefits of coaching will be examined in the following paragraphs.

What Is Workplace Coaching?

Before we can explore the benefits of workplace coaching, we must answer the question of what exactly it is.

You want your employees to be effective. For that to happen, you must equip them with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities necessary. The process of doing this is referred to as workplace coaching. It focuses on the goals of an organization and the needs of the employees through a professional “coaching” or “helping” relationship.

Could you and/or your business use some professional coaching? If you would like to enjoy the benefits explored below, the answer would be an exuberant, “Yes!”

Numerous Benefits Can Be Enjoyed Courtesy of Coaching

Depending on the coach, the organization, the team, etc. the benefits of business coaching are nearly endless. Here are some of the many benefits that may be experienced through business coaching:

• Communication can be improved and made more positive
• New team members can be better supported
• Staying on task will be easier
• Better goals can be created
• Values can be better reflected upon
• If it feels like something is “missing”, you’ll find out how to discover what it is
• Personal obstacles can be overcome
• Confidence can be boosted
• Transferable skills can be better developed
• More meaningful connections can be made
• Motivation may be seen at an increased level
• Offers an opportunity for career reflection
• Support for improvement of skills
• Build personal awareness
• Encourage deeper learning
• Gain perspective safely
• Increase engagement
• Learn how to establish and accomplish goals
• Enhance performance

Let’s look individually at the last eight benefits of business coaching.

For Specific Skill Improvement, Coaching Offers Support

It is highly beneficial to offer skill improvement support for your business team. Within the coaching process, one important aspect of progress is making an individual aware that, to help with goal achievement specifically, there’s someone there for them.

The focus of coaching relationships is frequently that of skill building. So coaching is efficient and directed, which skills to build should be specifically emphasized. Skills referenced here can include persuasion, teambuilding, conflict management, delegation, communication, and more. A coaching relationship can, with guided support, succeed in its objectives.

Personal Awareness Can Be Built through Coaching

Methods of self-improvement can be offered by a coach. However, introducing an individual or a team to their blind spots may be the more important (and first) step in the right direction. These blind spots are areas of someone’s personality or work that need improvement, but they may not be able to see it. To begin improving in these areas, they can work with the coach once they’re aware of the blind spots.

Personality assessments are one manner in which personal awareness can be built. A coach can help administer these assessments and determine their results. Individuals can take unknown weaknesses and, through building personal awareness, turn them into marketable strengths. For individuals and talent development programs, this personal awareness is a crucial confidence booster and can help in future roles.

Experience Learning at a Deeper Level through Coaching

To improve the skills of an individual in the workplace… This is just one aspect of corporate coaching. There’s an even deeper level of learning involved. Through coaching, someone can improve personality areas they’re not happy with, find out how others perceive them, and experience more self-awareness.

To take learning past understanding and remembering, coaching provides invaluable assistance. Within the safe learning space of an individual (see “Safe Place” below), a coach can help them take their skills and apply them to situations that are new and may feel initially intimidating. The skill set of an individual can be solidified by applying their skills in various situations, courtesy of their business coach.

Gain Perspective In a Safe Place

For someone to talk and go through sensitive issues, they must feel safe. Having a coach present assures them they are in a safe place. A coach, as a third-party participant, can give guidance yet remain uninvolved. Rather than going to someone within their organization and feeling intimidated, this allows the participant to gain perspective safely. Naturally, the participant and coach must be able to communicate in a secure way for this to happen.

It is important to use a safe place for development and encouragement. It allows for higher levels of comfort with a skill and more in-depth learning. In their career, an individual can begin to use their skills once they are comfortable with them. They can then see how they are gaining advantages courtesy of the relationship with their business coach.

Experience Engagement at an Increased Level

With lots of encouragement, and unique one-on-one feedback, coaching engages participants. An individual can contribute more effectively to the organization and to the team when they become engaged with their workplace. Productivity and retention are also increased through this engagement. As well as a team member’s overall organization, their careers are benefited, too.

A business coach will help individuals and organizations reach the utmost level of engagement. Engagement can be increased by a coach as they assist the organization in a manner in which relationships can frequently be checked on and progress driven.

Establish Goals and Act toward Achieving Them

An opportunity is provided for an individual through coaching in order to (in a realistic way) define their career goals. With the coach’s assistance, they can work actively toward their goals after defining them and setting them up. The chance that the goal will be achieved increases with coaching assistance. 

It is common for an individual’s career goals to be centered around a couple of aspects. One is the professional behavior of the individual, while the other is the building of skill sets.

Coaching will assist an individual in setting up/achieving their goals. To track progress, coaching assists the organization as well. Throughout coaching sessions, checkpoints are given to an individual. This helps them manage the achievement of each goal. As their efforts continue, coaching can directly report progress to program administrators, supervisors, etc.

Performance Can Be Enhanced

Are all of your team members living up to the expectations you had for them upon hiring them? During the interview, they may have looked good on paper and impressed you beyond measure. What about now?

To fill in performance gaps and unlock the talent of your team members, coaching can help. When dedicated executive coaching was participated in, a 17% increase in the average performance levels of team members was realized.

From time to time, why do even talented people suffer performance drops? Do they not have an understanding of how their career could be progressing? Is there a lack of management guidance?

When asked if they thought their efforts were being appreciated by their organization, would they work harder, how many employees do you think said yes? Answer: 69%. That’s a lot of employees who could be doing a better job if they just thought someone was noticing (and appreciating them). Coaching can help you create an atmosphere in which your people feel appreciated and valued.

Retention Can Be Improved Through Coaching

You want your team members to believe in your organization. You want them to want the company to succeed and flourish. Retention rates can be significantly boosted by providing a business coach. For in excess of five years, millennials are twice as likely to stick with a company if they have coaching.

When managers are constantly asking questions and scheduling coaching sessions with their teams, retention rates improve dramatically. Boost overall company performance and help build trust between employees with regular check-ins.

Help your employees feel happier by nurturing them at work. As a result – across your organization – you will be able to develop more meaningful relationships.

Coaching Can Help With New Team Members

In addition to new team members, already existing team members being promoted or transferred to a new role can benefit greatly from the support offered through coaching. You will be able to create an environment that is welcoming and fun. This will encourage them to devote themselves to diving right in. 

With some exciting team building activities, why not break the ice?

Coaching style language and conversations make it easier for fresh team members to do the following:

• At all levels of an organization, build inspiring relationships with other team members
• Express their true personality
• Integrate within a team

When, by a new employer, a new team member doesn’t feel welcomed – or if, within the company culture, they feel they do not fit – how many new team members do you think simply leave the organization? Answer: Nearly 25%! Don’t let that happen in your organization. Get some business counseling.

Wondering how to introduce counseling to your organization? Well, Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will a new coaching style be implemented. It will be a process that takes patience and time, going step-by-step. So that an acceptance of coaching and the idea of it can trickle down hill, senior leadership roles must lead by example so all members of the organization will jump on board.

Wrap Up – The Benefits of Coaching for Both Organizations and Individuals

For organizations, the following are benefits of coaching:

• To human resource development, a business/company can demonstrate organizational commitment.
• Helps empower and motivate individuals to excel.
• Helps develop opportunities and identify both individual and organizational strengths.
• Helps identify high potential employees and develop them.
• Individual performance is improved.
• Staff and employee engagement are increased.
• Individuals are empowered and encouraged to take responsibility.

For individuals on a personal level, coaching can offer the following benefits:

• Individuals can more effectively communicate. 
• With others, they can work productively and easily ( with peers, direct reports, bosses, etc.).
• For their commitments and actions, they take greater accountability and responsibility.
• To the organization and to the team, they can contribute more effectively.
• Gain more satisfaction in life and in their job.
• They can be more self-reliant.
• Toward the achievement of their goals, they can establish a plan and take action.

Could You Benefit with Some Business or Life Coaching? Yes! You Can!

Do you want to find a way to leave your mark in this world? Could you benefit from business or life coaching sessions? Do you find yourself thinking, at times, “I need to find a way to shut down my brain for a while!” 

SAHY Motivation can help. Attend your next coaching session from the comfort of your home, office, car, etc. with one of my YouTube videos.