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6 Ways Coaching Can Benefit You, Your Colleagues and Your Organization

Coaching managers and team members is a proven way to improve their productivity and help them reach their goals. Here are some of the many benefits coaching can provide your team.

1) Coaching helps employees learn new skills

Coaching gives employees an opportunity for customized one-on-one training, which means that employees get personalized attention to develop new skills. At Spitfire Coach, we assess individual clients for their strengths, opportunities, and preferences. Each technique works best when it is tailored specifically to fit individual employee learning and development needs. We create inclusive environments that are ideal for learning and growing.

2) Coaching supports employee growth and development

Coaching also allows leaders to encourage their employees by showing that they are invested in each person’s development. It creates loyalty among staff because everyone feels like they are growing together as a team. This engagement and the development of interpersonal skills are good for engagement and productivity. We have found in working with thousands of clients, that coaching works best when it is offered as a benefit and communicated as an investment in the employee's future with the company.

3) Coaching improves communication within teams

Another important benefit of coaching is improved communication between employees. At Spitfire Coach, we focus on creating multiple avenues of understanding rather than one-way streets of communication. When an employee feels seen and heard and can speak up with confidence, it creates a more positive work environment. When each person feels safe talking to one another, it encourages them to reach out when they need help. When this happens in a team, everyone will be able to better understand each other and work together towards common goals more effectively.

4) Coaching increases employee satisfaction and motivation

Employees feel valued and supported when their managers take the time to coach them personally; this engagement is great for morale and engagement. Motivation comes from feeling like one is continually learning and growing; coaching allows employees to feel like they are on an upward trajectory in their careers. More now than ever, managers are expected to be coaches, but very few have the skills needed to successfully coach their team members. At Spitfire Coach, we equip managers with the skills, frameworks, and processes to meet their team members where they are and support them where they want to go.

5) Coaching leads to tangible business results

Coaching can improve engagement, productivity, and employee satisfaction in the organization. These benefits lead to improved results in deadlines, accuracy, and innovation. An engaged workforce will focus more of its energy in producing higher quality work with fewer problems in implementation. Productivity increases when companies show that they care about empowering their workers through coaching. Coaching bridges the gap between idea and reality.

6) Coaching provides managers with additional tools to support their team

Finally, managers get more tools for leadership when they are coached. It's hard to see your label if you're in the jar. At Spitfire Coach, we focus first on Self-Awareness to objectively identify strengths, gaps, and blind spots in managers' leadership styles and communication practices. We bring an honest, direct, and playful approach to make learning leadership fun! We help you better understand how to get the most out of your teams and make management easier overall.

These six benefits of coaching can be applied to many different types of managers and teams across the board, but they are most effective when used with professionals who are dedicated to the coaching process and want to reach their peak potential. At Spitfire Coach, we give our clients the tools needed to coach their team members to success. To learn more about how coaching supports engagement, productivity, engagement, leadership, communication, motivation, and results for your business, contact Spitfire Coach today .

Imagine having someone in your corner whose sole objective is to see you succeed.

It may be uncomfortable. It may be scary. But it is so worth it!

What is The Spitfire Activation Method in Coaching?

Within every person is a deep passion and desire that is yearning to be expressed. Throughout our lives, we have learned, absorbed and acquired beliefs, stories and restrictions that had covered up and buried our purest vision of who we were meant to be.

Over time we went from carefree and limitless creativity to stressed out and frustrated people-pleasers. The Spitfire Activation Method (SAM) supports you in becoming aware, acknowledging, assessing, and activating your inner Spitfire power.

 The Spitfire Coaching process includes eight sequential components that allow you to learn, experiment and apply the concepts to your every day.

FAQs

What is Coaching?

According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential, which is particularly important in today's uncertain and complex environment. Simply put, coaching supports you in finding your answer.

What is Executive Coaching?

Executive Coaching is a partnering between a coach and a professional that focuses on key areas of success - leadership, communication, goal-setting, accountability, emotional intelligence, collaboration, team building, conflict resolution and professional development.

The coach may act as a mirror, magnifying glass, spotlight or flood light to expose blind spots, risk factors, opportunities and wins.

What kind of time commitment do I need for coaching to work?

Each coaching session is approximately 45-60 minutes and is 100% confidential and focused on your success. In between sessions, you may have 30-60 minutes of “homework” including journaling, reflection and applying the tools you learn.

What’s the deal with coaching certification?

Anyone can say they’re a coach. Anyone can say they’re a life coach or executive coach. A certified coach is trained by an ICF-accredited school and has gone through hundreds of hours of extensive training and testing in order to hold the credential of ACC, PCC, or MCC. Certified coaches also adhere to a strict Code of Ethics from ICF that maintains clear boundaries, expectations and confidentiality.

What’s the difference between Coaching, Therapy, Mentoring and Consulting?

Here's a breakdown between coaching, therapy and consulting. 

Therapy is awesome for getting you from a place of dysfunction (past) to a state of function (present).  Therapists may specialize in specific areas like family, relationships, trauma or eating disorders. Many therapists now incorporate elements of coaching in their sessions.

A coach may reference the past for context and patterns, but will typically stay in the present moving towards the future.

Mentoring is amazing when you find someone who has blazed a similar trail that you would like to experience and they will tell you how they did it. The value of mentoring comes from the quality of the mentorship dynamic - if the mentor has relevant experience, if the mentor is open to sharing, if the mentee is open to listening and asking questions. Some mentors (the really good ones) incorporate coaching techniques in their engagements.

A coach may have past experience in an industry or trade, but will put the focus on you as the client and your goals. They will assess your goals beyond the goals and your values to help you build and live in your dream trail. A coach asks the questions to open doors to new opportunities you may have never considered before, that once seen, seem completely obvious.

Consulting is fantastic for telling you exactly what you need to do to address a problem. Some consultants use coaching tools and techniques to better understand their challenges and opportunities.

A coach will help you dive in to uncover your own solutions and will help you be accountable to see it through. They listen to the goal behind the goal and identify areas of "stuckness" and work with clients to resolve and move through the blocks to get to their ideal goals.