Leaders, Technology, and Coaching - A Modern Classic

Author: Team xMonks | Published on: Tue, 07 May 2024 13:54:39 +0000

At the very outset, we would like to state that coaching is for the leaders, of the leaders, and by the leaders. The world is now on its way to accepting that the modern leader must also be a coach; for board meetings may be held in ‘war rooms’ but the army’s top-down hierarchical attitude is being shown the door amongst professional settings...

Years ago, executive coaching was stigmatised as “remedial help for underperformers.” More recently, it’s transformed into an elite, high-cost activity, often reserved for the highest-status executives...

Technology is now making it possible for far greater numbers of employees to benefit from outside executive coaching at scale. At a basic level, platforms are making it easier to find and select a coach...

Key Ways Technology is Transforming Coaching

Track Progress Against a Pre-Defined Pathway

Technology can help to create a single view of the client’s context, capabilities, and self-awareness by collating the output of psychometric tests (e.g. Big Five personality traits, MBTI, Firo-B) and feedback...

Build a Complete Picture of What is Said and Unsaid

To do meaningful work as a leader-coach, you will need the collection of data points that encapsulate all that has been said and all that has not been said...

Build a Path Forward

This is more about bringing hypotheses to life, creating scenarios and pinging them off against real-life and real-time variables to develop options for the client...

‘Nudges’ and ‘Reminders’

It is safe to imagine that a leader-coach within an organisation will have multiple direct reports that he or she will be coaching simultaneously...