7 Ideas to Help Build a Sustainable Coaching Culture

As the modern workplace environment continues to change at pace, the need for a more enlightened approach to management has never been more urgent. No longer will people put up with the traditional, desk-thumping ‘command and tell’ before packing their bags and moving on — instead, retention has become the focus for most employers. And with that focus, comes the need to engage people differently so that they’ll stay for longer than the projected average of less than two years for Millennials...

With Executive Coaches now ten-a-penny, often with no better qualification or recommendation than being a “friend-of-a-friend” or an “old associate”, and organisations rightfully confused about how to bring coaching into their business and whether and how to build an internal coaching culture, we would like to offer a refreshing viewpoint on how to begin to build a sustainable coaching culture and how you can be sure that your investment in this area will deliver a meaningful ROI and a long-term change for the positive within your organisation.

1. Be Inclusive

The focus of a coaching culture is on finding a way of tapping into the potential of all people within an organisation. Instead of forcing changes upon staff in the name of progress, by taking what Notion have dubbed an ‘Operational Coaching’ approach towards establishing a coaching culture, you are inviting everyone in the organisation, at every level, to step up and give more; to begin to maximise their potential.