What is Workplace Coaching and How Does it Work?

Creating a Compassionate Workplace Culture

Workplace coaching focuses on cultivating compassionate leadership and supporting employee wellbeing. Rather than view employees as resources to be optimized, it sees each person’s inherent dignity.

Coaching Builds Trust

Coaches work one-on-one with leaders to develop self-awareness, emotional intelligence and communication skills. This builds trust between managers and direct reports.

Supporting People Holistically

Coaching incorporates things like mindfulness, self-care and resilience into development plans. The goal is to support the whole person.

Empowering Individuals

Coaching focuses on drawing out each person’s strengths and creative solutions rather than prescribing top-down changes.

Fostering Community

Peer coaching groups encourage vulnerable sharing and collective wisdom. This connects people through shared experiences.

FAQ

What is workplace coaching?

Workplace coaching provides one-on-one development support to leaders and employees to improve skills like communication, resilience and emotional intelligence.

How does it build trust?

The coaching process facilitates vulnerable conversations that humanize leaders. This builds connection and trust between managers and direct reports.

What outcomes can it achieve?

Coaching can lead to more compassionate leadership, better collaboration, higher employee retention and a healthier work culture overall.

How is it implemented?

Coaching engagements involve assessment, goal-setting, regular coaching sessions, reflection and evaluation of progress over a sustained period of time.

Who benefits from coaching?

Both leaders and individual team members can benefit. Ultimately, developing people holistically and humanizing the workplace is good for everyone.