Transform Your Executive Leadership And Coaching With These 7 Trends was originally published on Ivy Exec.
All across the business landscape, top market-leading organizations are invested in executive leadership coaching programs to help optimize the success of their enterprises.
Executive coaching is more popular than ever before because organizations realize they can achieve much higher profit margins by activating, engaging, and retaining their top executive rainmakers.
A Fortune 500 company wanted to evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from offering executive leadership coaching opportunities. They found that 77% of their employees indicated that corporate coaching had made a significant impact on at least one of nine business improvement areas.
In addition, they found that overall employee productivity, employee engagement, and employee satisfaction were the most positively impacted areas from offering professional development programs.
All in all, the value of executive corporate coaching was found to lead to a 788% ROI for organizations that invested in offering top executive coaching opportunities to their staff.
Manchester, Inc. surveyed 100 executives, most of which were from Fortune 1000 companies. Their research showed that a company’s investment in Executive Coaching realized an average ROI of almost six times the cost of the coaching.
Executive coaching services are a powerful opportunity for activating and engaging staff members. Currently, 34% of workers are considered actively engaged in their jobs, and as many as 13% are actively disengaged. There is tremendous value in seeking to improve employee engagement and ensure more professionals are truly dedicating themselves to fulfilling their professional obligations.
In this article, learn about seven trends that are transforming executive leadership and coaching in 2022.
7 Leadership Coaching Trends Driving Corporate Success in 2022
1. Responding to the New Normal: Change is to be Expected
Over the last two years, a global pandemic, international government response, supply chain Sportage, and looming recession are just a few of the macroeconomic issues that organizations have been facing.
Executive coaches play a fundamental role in supporting all the change underway by working with corporate teams to see the opportunity amidst all the measurable challenges.
COVID-19 has completely changed the way many organizations seek to respond to their customer needs. Leadership coaches are helping to support more agile and resilient teams.
2. Educational Initiatives Have Gone Digital
Today, it’s possible to engage with award-winning lectures and bounce ideas off c-suite mavericks using the power of zoom and wireless network connections.
Educational initiatives have gone digital, and that means that organizations today can reap huge rewards by working with virtual coaches. Virtual coaches deliver the flexibility their customers need to be matched with the expert insights their teams need to overcome anything that their industry throws their way. Like remote work, remote coaching is here to stay, and that means it’s even easier for organizations to deliver the expert guidance their teams need to thrive.
3. Personalized Coaching Solutions Are Here to Stay.
Not so long ago, leadership training was only offered to senior professionals at major corporations.
All of that is changing with every type of public and private organization imaginable investing heavily in personalized coaching solutions to provide professionals of all backgrounds and ability levels with the one-on-one guidance they need to succeed and master new areas of their business.
There are affordable personalized coaching opportunities available for organizations of every size, shape, and budget.
4. Business Coaches Are Replacing Consultants
Over the last several years, many organizations have undergone rapid change initiatives to bring more expertise in-house and do away with working with expensive external consultants.
To make up the difference, on-site business consultancies have declined, but digital coaching opportunities have flourished. While it will likely be some years before business consultants are totally forgotten, coaching is quickly becoming the gold standard.
5. The Next Evolution in HR is Driven by AI
Today, organizations have more access to analytical insights about professional activity than at any other time in history.
All of that data is fueling even more personalized learning opportunities, and more laser-focused corporate mentorship.
As organizations learn more about who their top professionals are, they are better suited to serve them and encourage them to deliver game-changing results.
6. Smart and Measurable Goals Guide Performance Improvement
Businesses have realized that measuring performance is the key to improving the margins that so many industries depend on to be profitable.
This has become even more so in recent years, where economic strains have been felt even at the world’s true market-leading enterprises.
The best client and coaching opportunities are guided by smart and measurable goals that align learning and development with business strategy.
7. Increased Industry Regulations
Currently, the business coaching industry is not regulated though increasingly, organizations are seeking out opportunities to validate the certifications and diplomas their staff earn when they complete programs.
In the future, it is likely that the accreditation and certification for leadership coaching will increase, and many jurisdictions are already considering regulations to better control the way coaching impacts industries in their communities.
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