Development 2024
As we close the 2023 year, you may have a development budget that was not completely used during the year. Why not use some of those resources to enhance, develop or fine tune your coaching skills?
Global IOC has found that coaching continues to be increasingly relevant to the success of businesses. It is a key leadership competency; with leaders at all levels who develop coaching skills driving higher levels of performance and revenue. Adding a coaching designation to the skills you already possess can open up new career opportunities for you both in the present and in the future.
Importance of Developmental Coaching to Organizations
Developing employees is a critical aspect of organizational success and involves providing them with the necessary skills, knowledge, and opportunities to grow both personally and professionally. In most organizations coaches support the development of employees by providing coaching to address specific skill gaps and foster professional development; working with employees to create individual development plans; discussing goals, aspirations, and the steps needed to achieve them. Additional opportunities for development include assigning projects that stretch employees' abilities and challenge them to learn new skills; promoting a culture of continuous learning within the organization and creating cross-functional teams to expose employees to different aspects of the business.
Connecting Coaching and Development
A range of factors has contributed to the interest in developing business coaching capabilities. They include a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, the financial cost of not retaining employees, support for organizational change initiatives and support for development of employees. Coaching, with its emphasis on just-in-time, flexible, customized learning, is seen as a welcome contribution to an individual’s development portfolio.
The convergence of organizational needs along with talent requirements presents a unique opportunity for business coaches. Coaches and leaders who can demonstrate the value of coaching while delivering upon attraction, development, and retention of key talent, high levels of engagement and performance and reinforcement of learning are in high demand.
Pathways to Becoming a Coach at Global IOC
Global IOC offers four pathways to developing, enhancing, and tweaking coaching skills. First, a foundational skill building class to introduce essential coaching skills. This program is for new leaders or for individuals who are on track to become leaders. Next, progressive skill building which integrates the core skills with new knowledge and coaching best practices. This program leads to the designation of Registered Business Coach. For those who have learned the core requirements from another group or in a variety of trainings, there is an assessment only track to gain the designation. The third pathway is to enhance your coaching through added tools and resources that allow you to continue to build capacities as you coach in increasingly complex and challenging situations within a business context at an advanced level. The Advanced program leads to a Registered Senior Business Coach designation. Both the core and advanced programs have an assessment only component which provides the candidate with an opportunity to capture prior learning and practices and attain the designation for that level. The fourth pathway is the master level. This level focuses on a deep and full exploration of current approaches to coaching, methodologies and theories underpinning business coaching along with alignment of past work and life experiences with a deepening understanding of coaching mastery.
The proprietary curriculum developed by faculty at Global IOC is an evidence-based model which focuses on application and integration of knowledge gained. The program structure of all programs is a blend of virtual highly interactive sessions along with self-paced independent learning. One to one oversights with master certified faculty deepen and enhance the coaching practice.
Bring Coaching to Your Organization
After a candidate has met the requirements for the Registered Senior Business Coach designation, he or she is eligible to become faculty with Global IOC and deliver the Essentials or Core program to his/her organization. Attendance at a curriculum immersion session is mandatory. Candidates will then determine the amount of support needed to deliver the program to the candidate’s organization. Observation of initial facilitation of the program is required along with submission of attendee logs and annual reports. A bonus of the internal coaching program is that the curriculum of the Global IOC program content can be modified to meet the needs of the organization. When the Core program is offered within an organization, participants are eligible to receive the Registered Business Coach designation.
Employee development is an ongoing process that requires a commitment from both the organization and its employees. Regularly assessing the effectiveness of your coaching and development programs and adjusting them based on feedback and changing organizational need leads to a competitive advantage.
If you or your organization have unused development dollars, Global IOC has a number of Business Coaching Programs to enhance and tweak your coaching skills and capabilities. For more information on Global IOC coaching programs, please go to www.globalioc.com