Why you need leadership coaching for your team

When most people think about hiring a coach, they imagine someone who works 1-on-1 to help leaders to become better leaders, or sales people to become better sales people. 

But not enough organizations think about hiring a coach to help a team become a better team.

And your most important team is the leadership team.

Here are three important benefits of leadership team coaching:

A proven process

A company, much like a computer, needs an operating system to run effectively. The right coach will bring a proven framework and a common language to drive your vision, strategy and execution disciplines. 

The RIGHT process can make your vision a reality with incredible velocity.It also allows the great work done by the leadership team to cascade down to the rest of the organization. So EVERY team member understands how their job relates to the vision and strategy of the organization. 

Discipline

A great process without disciplined execution is worthless. It’s too easy to drop new habits when old issues or new challenges pop up.  

The right coach challenges you to create AND maintain habits, until they’re as ingrained as brushing your teeth in the morning. 

I’ve seen teams drop the discipline over and over again:

‘I think we’ve got this now. We should be good.’

And then meetings get canceled, priorities are ignored and plans fall by the wayside. They quickly get out of the rhythms that support performance without a coach keeping them accountable.

Coaching is about much more than just teaching your team a bunch of techniques. That’s the  easy part. Sticking to them so you can see long term results is where the heavy lifting happens

Outside perspective

I used to get this question a fair bit from CEOs: How many years of experience do you have in our industry? 

Most times, I had little or no experience in their specific industry. So the question would initially throw me off. But then it hit me…it’s actually an asset. 

I remember asking one CEO, “how many years of industry experience do you have on the leadership team?”

“Well, we’ve got a very experienced team. All together we’ve got over 100 years of experience.”

“That’s great!” I answered. “How many more do you need?” 

What they really needed was someone with an outside perspective to ask the questions that no one else thought to ask. They needed an outsider to bring unique insights, not the same old ideas everyone else in their industry was trying. 

A coach is that person.

There are a lot of great coaches out there, each with their model of coaching. You can read more about mine right here. >> https://www.mike-goldman.com/coaching