Your personalised coaching program will be designed to align three groups of objectives: 

• business improvements in your team, work group and adjacent areas of your organisation
• increased alignment with your organisation's strategic direction, and your area's implementation of that strategy
• your leadership effectiveness and personal wellbeing at work and in other areas of your life.

We plan with you, and generally with your sponsor or manager, coaching objectives and the learning direction that will best align with outcomes across these three areas. Benefits in each area usually resonate together, so that aligned benefits develop together.

Organisational benefits and the business case for coaching

These are several ways of assessing these benefits. All give direct or indirect evidence that coaching is effective and that there is a strong business case for coaching. Many benefits flow from developing leaders' emotional intelligence, so that they better understand themselves and others, and can work and lead more effectively.Studies show that successful coaching depends on good rapport between coach and client, and it is good practice to ensure that the client’s development aligns with their organisational strategy. At Insight Leadership Coaching, we recognise that good personal rapport and strategic alignment are the most important factors for getting organisational benefits. We work with you to achieve this. Before starting coaching, we use our organisational expertise to discuss with you an appropriate coaching program. During the coaching we monitor rapport and alignment, and will suggest alternative coaches or recommend changes to programs if it seems advisable.

Coaching and your organisation's strategy

In line with the guide published by the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, we emphasise the importance of aligning coaching objectives and plans with the organisation's strategic goals. This generally involves preliminary discussion with, and feedback to, the client’s manager in three-way conversations. It may also involve general discussion with the coaching sponsor (e.g. HR department). CIPD research also supports the view that coaching works best when there is a supportive culture and climate in the organisation. We can advise on this.

Personal benefits of coaching

Successful coaching generally leads to increased purposefulness, self-assurance, confidence and motivation in carrying out work roles. Your understanding of yourself and others grows as your emotional intelligence develops. So your individual work and interactions with others may be easier and more effective, and work becomes less stressful.

There often are positive interactions between this personal development and your increased effectiveness at work --  each has a positive effect on the other, and together they may lead to enhanced professional ease, effectiveness and well-being. This can carry over into personal aspects of life, so people are able to respond better to new challenges and issues, and have an increased sense of personal well-being.

This is good preparation for the goal of being able to self-coach yourself after the coaching assignment has been completed, so that ongoing personal and professional development becomes part of a flourishing life.