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4 Keys Experienced Coaches Miss in Organizations

4 Keys Successful Coaches Miss

The world of coaching continues to grow and be accepted as a potentially valuable offer. Coaches come from many disciplines, backgrounds, and trainings, and some become quite successful. Yet coaching in organizations adds unavoidable dimensions to the coaching engagement beyond the coachee.
Even successful coaches often have blind spots and misconceptions in the territory of coaching in organizations. Four keys we’ll cover here.
We have found that with more clarity about the keys for coaching in organizations there is a  a greater opportunity for creating impact, acquiring and retaining clients, and generating income. All while still making a difference in the lives of many.

What would you say is missing for most business or executive coaches?

Here are a few of the misconceptions that even some successful coaches hold as necessary to be successful:

  1. Experience and even success in other roles throughout a career translate into coaching skills.

  2. Coaching in organizations is doing good coaching of your individual coachee.

  3. If you coach the coachee to their satisfaction that is good enough for the organizational client.

  4. Providing clarity to the coachee and having them commit to new actions is enough, whether their actions affect organizational outcomes or not.

While some of this may be helpful from time to time, and ultimately where a coachee will accept coaching, there are keys to make bigger offers in organizations. Offers that ultimately make for a more successful coaching practice.

From our experience, there are 4 keys (and quite honestly more) that even successful coaches miss in their work with their organizational coaching clients, which we’ll share in just a moment.


One key that we’ve identified is “Coaching for Results”. Coaches many times assess that they are coaching for results, however as they dive into a coaching session, what’s missed is an understanding of how human care, commitment, and conversation is the source of all actions and results. This is just part of what we’ve identified in coaching results.

 

 

Key #2 is Knowing the Anatomy of Organizations

 

 

#3 is “Understanding the Mood of Organizations”.

 

 

The 4th Key even successful business coaches miss is “Managing Breakdowns”.

 

 

These Keys may seem obvious as you read them. Of course there’s more behind these keys. The intention is not to overload you too much. However, if you want to dive into these Keys a bit more, fill out the form below to get access. You’ll explore them from the generative perspective as well as many other skills that we must keep in the background to be the best coach we can be for our organizational clients.

Even the most successful coaches miss out on these. If you utilize what’s in this download, you’ll be able to expand the repertoire of your coaching in organizations!