Frustrated that the impact of your coaching and mentoring becomes diluted when you are working in an organisation? Then helping your client to grow a coaching culture needs to be high on your agenda! Why grow a coaching culture .…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 2: Leading Transformational Change
‘It is a change universally acknowledged’ that coaching is a key process for facilitating transformational change! Over the last few years, a considerable body of evidence has been building to support the premise that coaching is a key process for…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 3: What and Why?
Securing a Common Understanding of WHAT COACHING LOOKS LIKE and WHY IT IS EFFECTIVE is the starting point for growing a coaching culture in any organisation. Have those organisations you work with as a coach or mentor spent time ensuring…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 4: Getting Buy-in
Getting ‘buy-in’ to the growth of a coaching culture is essential if coaching and mentoring are to have more than a cursory impact. A common sense statement that is like so many other common sense statements – not always as…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 5: Walking the Talk
Regular and consistent ‘Walking the Talk’ is the next key requirement for growing a coaching culture for us to explore. Last week we looked at the importance of gaining ‘buy in’ to the concept of a coaching culture if coaching…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 6: Investing in Development
Growing a coaching culture requires investment in people development right across an organisation as well as leadership from the top. What do I mean by the statement . . . ‘Growing a coaching culture requires investment in people development right…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 7: ROI
Demonstrating that coaching and mentoring brings a Return On Investment (ROI) is often overlooked Yet demonstrating that coaching and mentoring brings a return on investment is likely to be a top priority for your client if they are to…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 8: Bringing Together the Threads
Over the last few blogs we have explored how growing a coaching culture needs to be part of an organisation’s wider vision for its future. While there is lots of evidence to demonstrate that coaching and mentoring can bring…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 9: Business Benefits
How do you respond when your client asks you to demonstrate the business benefits of coaching and mentoring? Do you feel it is a challenge or see it as an opportunity? Is it a question you are expecting or are…
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Growing a Coaching Culture 10: What others say about business benefits . . .
What evidence do you have to demonstrate what others say about the business benefits of coaching and mentoring? How do you respond when your client asks you to demonstrate the business benefits of coaching and mentoring? Alongside your own collected…
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