Coaching for Organisations and teams

Why is coaching important for your organisation and teams?

Organisations are increasingly turning to leadership coaching to maximize the potential of their staff. It can be a powerful tool for your organisation, allowing you to amplify the strengths of your leaders and improve performance across your workforce. The overarching goal is to create a framework for successful leadership but to achieve that goal it’s important to choose a coaching firm that is aligned with your organisation’s values and culture, and that can provide the right kind of coach and programme for your needs.

Whether you are trying to implement a new business model, put together a new team, handle a tough leadership transition, or maximise the potential of underrepresented staff, coaching can be the deciding factor, and if you want to go from good to great, you need to develop your people through coaching.

Why should your leaders and teams be coached?

Leadership and team coaching can help your organisation with a wide range of outcomes but at Jenny Garrett Global, our aim is to provide the support and challenge that your leaders need to navigate their careers, maximise their performance and play their part in helping your business thrive in our ever-changing world. In recent times, we’ve found that organisations and leaders are commonly looking for ways to handle uncertainty, and one of the many benefits of our programmes is that it helps leaders to succeed during these uncertain times by building resilience and learning how to negotiate, embrace and thrive in volatile, unsettled and complex situations.

When you have the right programme and coach for the job, it will make a huge difference to your staff, leaders and company.

How to coach your leaders.

Leadership and team coaching are not one-size-fits-all. It’s about solving specific problems with bespoke solid programmes. We’ve spent the last 17 years developing a range of expert coaching and training programmes that focus on issues that organisations and leaders are commonly facing today. These include:

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging – ‘no longer counting people, but making people count’, exploring and appreciating differences, cultures, and beliefs to provide the best organisational solutions.
Leadership coaching – providing the challenge and support that can be missing for executives at the most senior levels of an organisation to keep them on track.
Team performance – through team coaching, enabling improved lines of communication, increased self-awareness, and an understanding of others’ perceptions.

Our team of highly qualified and experienced coaches work with your senior team to keep them engaged and motivated. They will support your leaders to build their resilience, resourcefulness and confidence, equipping them with the tools they need to perform at their best.

What should leaders expect from their coaching?

We typically begin the process with a triangular conversation between the line manager, coachee and coach. This can include HR or other sponsors also. The purpose is to contract around confidentiality, objectives and how we will work together. Reviews during the process and at the end can also take place as well as evaluation.

Our programmes range from one-to-one coaching, bespoke 6–8-month Leadership programmes for those from ethnically diverse backgrounds to navigate their career to whole organisation programmes to cultivate belonging.

What are the benefits of coaching?

Working with a coach, an organisation can experience a whole range of benefits from improved performance, enhanced relationships and less conflict between employees. Leadership and team coaching can help your business to maintain or increase performance, or work with your leaders to help them handle negative opportunities.

Organisations that use our services benefit from trusted connections, an increase in supplier diversity, and diverse perspectives infusing their organisation. Overall, we support organisations to:

Progress diversity and inclusion initiatives
Equip all staff with the skills to lead their careers effectively and maximise their potential.
Create a culture where all can contribute and thrive.

To find out more about coaching for your teams or across your organisation, please get in touch to discuss your requirements so that we can tailor a package for you.

Case Study – Building society

The building society engaged us to support a cohort of 25 of their high-potential colleagues, with the aim of equipping participants to face the challenges and opportunities that may arise with colleagues from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

The building society was keen to incorporate one-to-one coaching and masterclasses in the programme led by us. These interventions would be incorporated into an existing internal development programme alongside other elements designed and delivered by the building society.

The programme consisted of psychometrics at the start, followed by 3 masterclasses over six months with coaching in between each session.

Feedback we received

“Coach was exceptionally good – really helped identify areas for development. Sessions were effective.”

“The coaching has been life changing. The way we are thinking about career pathway and being open about it is great – this has triggered all the right discussions between myself, my line manager, my sponsor and my community leader.”

The programme was deemed highly successful with 27% of those on the programme achieving promotion during its duration.

Programme successes include:

A shift in participants’ confidence (from 59% positive to 76% positive)
Improved perception of how diverse perspectives are received (18% positive
upwards shift)
Significantly improved access to mentoring and sponsorship (from 35% to 88% positive).

What went well

Coaching was a highlight. Matching worked well, with coachees having up to 3 chemistry calls before making their decision. The client was happy that we fed back on themes to help them improve their inclusion.