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Benefits of leading with a coaching approach
It’s not unusual now for leaders to engage coaches to help them make sense of the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments in which they operate. Having found coaching useful themselves, they may wish to adopt a coaching approach in their own teams.
For employees who dislike the ‘command and control’ leadership styles that older generations endured, a leader who coaches may be welcomed as a partner in self- development.
Leaders benefit from conversations in which they are learning from different perspectives in an organisation. They're also increasingly able to rely on an empowered team rather than shouldering decision-making and performance by themselves.
Start-ups and scale-ups in particular benefit from leaders with a coaching approach who can help fast-growing companies become learning organisations of people who ‘evolve or revolve’ rather than ‘rest and vest’.