The Everyday Coach
We have created a new concept called The Everyday Coach. Who is the Everyday Coach? When do they coach? Whom do they coach? Why did they coach? The Everyday Coach is You!
First, let me share where we came up with the concept. I had a friend share with me he could not believe how much coaching I was doing on a daily basis. I inquired why he said that and he responded you coach every day from your clients to your employees to the kids you coach on the volleyball teams that you run. I never really thought about it but yes I'm immersed in coaching but it also got me thinking I cannot be the only one. It also got me thinking I bet you there are tons of people who are already coaching don't even realize there coaching. Coaching is about investing in other people and after my friend shared that concept with me it got me thinking you don't need to be a manager or business owner or a leader to be a coach, rather a coach is a person who is willing to invest in other people to help them leverage their strengths and ultimately address areas of opportunity to improve. This includes parents, youth sports coaches, friends, teammates, coworkers, kids, just to name a few!
Certainly, the coaching industry continues to grow as well as the need for managers to coach their employees. With that being said we should not negate the fact that every employee and person has the ability to coach. We coach each other at work. We coach our kids at home. We coach kids during athletics or extracurricular activities. We coach ourselves. A coach is a person who is conscientiously aware of the value of coaching, what it does for other people, what it does for themselves, and the overall value it brings to the workplace. The Everyday Coach is not merely a leader rather a person who is genuinely interested in helping other people see things in themselves that are of great value as well as opportunities to improve on a daily basis. The Everyday Coach inside an organization is powerful. The Everyday Coach who leverages strengths and positive attributes of their kids are also called great parents. The Everyday Coach who invests in the good things that players do even when there is not success is called a life changer. The Everyday Coach who does not have the title of supervisor leader or manager but invests in coworkers positively is called a great teammate. The person who offers to practice a role-play with the fellow teammate at work and ultimately acknowledge the good things that partner is doing is called a great coworker.
When I think about the corporate workplace and the typical responses we get when it comes to coaching such as a lack of time when in fact the real reason is usually they don't know how this presents workplaces a tremendous challenge. We cannot publish our corporate values without having leadership that executes through coaching and leadership to those corporate values. As leaders are indeed busy today what would happen if employees started to coach? What would happen if leaders started to recognize the value of coaching through their own employees? What would happen if coworker started to acknowledge to their leaders that help they're getting from their teammates? This not only would pull reluctant leaders and managers into the coaching workplace but would make it easier for them as employees have been nurtured to coach as well as received coaching.
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