Can You Recognize Effective Coaching?

You have heard of the idea of getting coaching for various challenges that have come up in the workplace, but how will you know the difference between effective coaching and the opposite? In this short article, we look at three tangible outcomes that may accompany effective coaching.

On a personal level, the opportunity to benefit from coaching will promote an individual’s personal growth and improvement over time through self-development. From a company-wide perspective, there are several ways to structure as well as measure effective coaching. A short list of these may include promotion, performance, better coordination inside and outside teams, and higher retention rates.

These are useful to measure effective coaching once the program has ended, but how can you evaluate the program while it is still in progress, and how are improvements seen in the working week?

Effective coaching outcomes and indicators

Better personal performance.

A high-performing employee can see the broader picture, and so more easily collaborates with other team members and with those of different skill sets. The development time required for such a person is shortened through focused coaching in areas such as project planning, strategic thinking, or influencing others.

To effectively examine and improve these areas the coach needs to be able to communicate their technical expertise of personality factors that influence these competencies, such as emotional intelligence, imposter syndrome, and ego.

Those receiving coaching come to understand what areas they need to work on, and then how to do this while staying true to themselves so that the personal growth continues after the coaching sessions are ended.

Improving team coordination and outcomes.

When a leader is coached, it is not only their performance that will improve, but their team will also benefit from higher outputs. Effective coaching will facilitate a high-performing leader’s desire to cultivate a team spirit of working together, supporting one another, and promoting self-development within the team.

The start of this journey of improvement is with a leader who understands themselves as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their team. Effective coaching will help the leader to see opportunities within areas of development.

Effective coaching increases retention.

Keeping good people on staff is not the primary outcome of effective coaching, but it is important, nonetheless. When receiving coaching through their place of work team members feel more valued and recognized, and provided that the resources are available, they are allowed to chart their career path within the company.

Employees that have received coaching are often more confident to broach areas of concern and take ownership of their careers, this often results in surprise resignations and provides the employee or company time to find alignment. This benefits the company by being able to retain the training and knowledge invested in the team member and avoids the costs of recruitment and on-boarding.

Effective coaching impacts both individuals and organizations. The intention of explaining these brief indicators of what a return on investment may look like in this field is to give you an understanding of some key results from coaching programs. These can be used to support and champion coaching at an individual, team, and organizational level by showing the value effective coaching brings to an organization.

Next steps

If you are looking for additional help to identify effective coaching from a personal or organizational point of view, please browse our online counselor directory or contact our office at Pasadena Christian Counseling to schedule an appointment. We would be honored to walk with you on this journey.