Engaging a coach/business psychologist - when, why, what for?

I would work with someone whom I personally liked and respected. Furthermore, that really understood my business/department.

I can recommend https://www.thegcindex.com/lee-lam-consultancy/

cheers Andy

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Typical pain points within and across an organisation and team dynamics include:

• Senior Management Perceptions/Mis-perceptions
• Management Behaviours and their consequent impact on staff, culture and operations/business
• Organisation Culture where that culture is informed by Snr/management behaviours, perception and aattitudes
• Perception Disconnect between Operations and Management

Engaging a Coach/Doing workshop

Topic – Ideally you’d want to take a two pronged approach

1. Do some individual sessions with Senior Management Perceptions of the organisation, business, culture, identification of things that do or do not work well and then do the same with Operational Leads.
2. Have a workshop scenario with senior management (or their empowered representatives) and operations leads together and share in an anonymised fashion the findings in different perceptions that have been gathered and the impacts that have been experienced as a result.

This will provide the basis for what needs to change and the coach can then help facilitate that approach.

Hi Lilyana, 

I think you have raised a really good and sensitive challenge.

I am a firm believer that for the efficiency of the teams and team dynamics - companies do not need HR department in its current form, but rather coaches and business psychologists.

Until now, when there is a problem within the team and team communication, fair-play, transparency - the answer is "go and speak with HR". However speaking with HR is individually and it is not a work with the team.

What I would love to see implemented is :

• coach/business psychologist working with the team on the issues that are affecting the smooth and efficient work in a nice environment. I imagine the coach teaching the team what are the types of personalities, speak about emotional intelligence, how to cope when under stress, how to give constructive feedback, team awareness etc.

People from the team who are interested in reading about psychology often have clashes with the others from the team who lack awareness and there is where the team dynamics problem comes.

• once the coach/ business psychologist understands the team and the dynamics, I would love to see individual sessions implemented together with the group sessions and to work on the mentioned above.

And definitely I think that this should be 1-year program at least, because to change the bad habits of communication is not a one-off.

I am not sure whether I raised the points correctly, but I would love to know are there practices like the above.

Thanks, 

Marieta

Hi Lilyana:

THE MAJOR BENEFITS OF COACHING

So I’d like to outline three major benefits that I firmly believe companies should expect from all executive coaching: self-awareness and insight, self-management, and collaboration. And since people tend to be biassed towards their own lenses, I’m also outlining why therapists are specially equipped to provide this value to their corporate clients.

WHY DO COMPANIES NEED AN EXECUTIVE COACH?

Ultimately, the job of an executive coach is to support the client in achieving the client's goals, and in companies that hire coaches, the goals are usually related to improving employee engagement and retention, boosting team effectiveness and productivity, and ultimately increasing revenue. To get there, every company and individual client needs to grow in at least one and usually several of the areas outlined below.

Here are the three biggest benefits of executive coaching (especially when provided by a therapist):

SELF-AWARENESS AND INSIGHT

Good coaching helps people see what they’re doing - this is self-awareness. Great coaching helps them understand why they’re doing it - this is insight. Without these two, it’s really hard for people to change or grow. A good executive coach is like a mirror - helping people to see what needs refinement without judging them. Therapists have deep training in building the rapport required to help people feel safe enough to do this work and provide the reflective listening that helps people start to see themselves accurately. Therapists working as executive coaches also have deep training in identifying their own biases so they can ensure the mirror they’re holding up for clients is accurate and helpful.

SELF-MANAGEMENT

A solid executive coach teaches clients the skills to fine-tune themselves internally and present themselves well externally so they can maximize their impact at the company. An executive coach with a therapy background can teach clients and companies many, many, many ways to manage stress, manage negative emotions, bounce back and learn from failure, and establish solid boundaries in regard to time and roles.

COLLABORATION

People with good self-awareness, good insight, and good self-management are more able to be empathetic, patient, team-oriented, and good communicators; all necessary qualities for productive collaboration. Good coaches teach people how to be effective with others while also being authentic - and working with the whole organization means everyone learns these skills so there’s less need for primitive strategies like politicking or manipulation, both of which are exhausting and erode trust and motivation. Executive coaches with a therapy background aren't afraid of messy team dynamics and can help coworkers negotiate their relationships and communicate their needs in healthy and effective ways.

Executive coaching is a big investment of time, energy, and resources and this is the return all companies should expect and deserve - these benefits are the major value of working with an executive coach and are needed in order to achieve nearly any business goal.

I hope it helps!

https://blog.6prog.com/2019/03/25/lee-lam-joins-6prog-as-advisor-for-people/

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