Coaching Employees

One of the great pleasures I have in business is conducting coaching sessions with employees. Young, emerging leaders in our business report being both inspired by and benefiting from the insights and ideas that are generated in these formal conversations. They are scheduled every six weeks across the year.

Having set times to conduct regular sessions like these achieves several objectives:

• It enables me to ask questions about their particular concerns at a point in time and informs me about the things that are affecting them in our business.
• It impels me to prepare a presentation for the next session that is on point. Undertaking this exercise sharpens my own thinking about the nature and direction of the business in and around the concerns that are raised.
• It builds strong communication channels and trust between us.
• It creates a culture of shared learning and appreciation of the people we have in our business.
• It builds commitment and motivation, for both the employer and the employee.
• It disciplines me to ensure that I am up to speed on the business subjects that are of interest to them and important for our business.

Sharing our vision of the future for our business and addressing particular issues of concern with others enable us all to get to know each other better and exposes us to different thinking.

Coaching employees is a great opportunity for raising the level of conversation in business and creating new possibilities for growth and renewal.