How can the performance of a team be increased without overburdening people? How can a team "run smoothly" and be productive without negative stress? With the classic leadership methods, this doesn't work at all. But it works with Business Coaching. Here you will learn why Managers necessarily with business coaching - and how it can help you in concrete terms.
What a dream: Everyone in the team loves doing their job. They are super motivated. No one complains about Overload or underchallenge. And above all: Nothing unimportant happens. Employees only do meaningful things that end up producing tangible results. Imagine if you could create such a work environment. What would it be like?
That can only be done by magic, you think? A beautiful utopia? Hm, small moment - let's think for a moment.
Why should this state not be attainable for a team? Because this paradisiacal state is basically the whole point! Presumably, no company founder uses the wrong people right at the beginning. Rather, this is a phenomenon that creeps in over time. Processes take on a life of their own, wrong decisions remain valid - and so sand accumulates in the gears. Without being negative - it just happens. Almost every organization experiences this, especially when it grows, including many a team.
That doesn't mean people are bad. Sure there are miscasts, sure. But if, according to the annual Gallup studies. 68 percent of employees only work "by the bookthen it doesn't seem to be down to the people alone. But there is something going wrong all along the line. Often the right people are in the wrong positions. And many an employee blossoms when someone finally asks him what he actually likes to do. Suddenly he is allowed to give Excel training internally because he can do it and loves it.
So why would you say it's normal for productivity to be half of what it could be and for people to work mainly for the trash? Just because everyone has gotten used to it? Instead, you could also say that you could take a look at how to make the gearbox common again.
It's not about kicking people out and hiring others who then also get frustrated after a short time. Layoffs and new hires are extremely expensive and time-consuming. Instead, it is about looking at the tasks with which people like to do good work.
You could say, for example: The people in the company are the essential asset. The company should handle them with care. Let's find out what skills and potential are actually on board!
But how many managers act accordingly? Those who work in a company often develop a kind of operational blindness over time. This ensures that we don't even see the sand in the gears. We think it's normal that our colleague is always grumpy. She's just like that, we think. We also find it normal that the colleague calls in sick every Monday.
But has it always been like this? On the first day, the first week on the job - were these employees already so frustrated and demotivated? No. It has crept in. And it begs the question, do employees even have a chance to be productive at this point?
Leaders and managers rarely ask themselves this question. Many know that they "should" do something, but they can't find a lever. Also because they have never learned how they should proceed. And as long as all the other teams are performing so lukewarmly, there's no need to change anything. So most are content to leave things as they are.
But some executives do something, too. They get a coach. Just what for? To fill the gaps they have as managers. They get coached to advance themselves and, in turn, their team. And then suddenly it works. All of a sudden changes possible that previously seemed impossible. These coaches seem to have mastered something that moves people, teams and companies forward. They do not work with leadership methods, but rather with Coaching methods.
Therefore a compelling thought: Leadership today needs coaching knowledge. And you can acquire that!
As a leader, you could motivate your team more and increase their productivity - which would probably advance your career significantly. Or you could position yourself as an outsider with the topic "Business Coaching" and positively influence companies from the outside - with which you serve a huge need, because the pain of the companies is great.
Maybe you know from Greator the life coaching. This concerns life, communication, dealing with everyday challenges and with people. And also a little bit the search for the meaning of life.
Business coaching covers completely different fields: leadership, management, motivating teams, increasing performance, Company goals achieve. The meaning of business, so to speak. After all, people spend about a third of their day at work. So a job should be meaningful - and that's what more and more young people expect from their jobs.
There is a huge market for sense orientation in companies. Because most companies already know that they have to change something. They can use a business coach help you find the lever.
We already have two tips for you:
Tip 1: Think without hierarchy!
Unlike leadership and management, coaching knows no hierarchy. A coach does not tell the team what to do. A coach is more of a sparring partner who communicates with his coachee at eye level. In this way, the difference in status disappears and both can talk to each other normally.
Tip 2: Ask the right questions!
Then coaching is a kit with a whole range of methods. One of the most important methods is to ask questions. By asking questions, people in the company often come up with the solution themselves. A boss would tell the grumpy colleague to please communicate more cooperatively because her behavior "doesn't work at all." A coach might ask, "What in the workplace would put you in a good mood?" And suddenly you learn a cause for the colleague's bad mood and may even be able to do something about it - a hidden conflict, an impractical work schedule, missed appreciation on the part of the employer.
So how about acquiring these coaching methods? Either to have an impact within the company and strengthen your position or to be a sparring partner for managers and employees from the outside? Business coaching can be learned! You can learn how to do this in our free of charge Webinar. You should definitely be there - whether you are interested in it as a manager in the company or as a coach from outside.
