Businesses are constantly innovating, it’s a fact; implementing new strategic plans, adopting new technological solutions and, more importantly, caring every day more for their employees. At the end of the day, it’s thanks to their team and the work that they provide that companies manage to steer on. We touched on this subject in a previous article dedicated to work incentives. Team leaders need to find new ways to motivate their employees, and not only by giving them pay rises. Many companies already dedicate part of their resources to implement incentive programs such as incentive travel, bonuses, merchandising, etc. One of the predominant trends in the field is to provide executive coaching to employees.
What is executive coaching?
Let’s start with the literal meaning of the term ‘coaching‘: a method that is designed to accompany, educate, and train a person or a group of people, with an underlying objective of achieving specific targets or developing specific skills.
But how does this apply to the business sector? The term coaching is often associated with the practice of executive training: a process which has as main function to maximise the professional and personal development of the person receiving it. If undertaken in an optimal and appropriate fashion, this process can result in a highly positive transformation.
The best element of coaching is that the activity is totally customised, each session being 100% adapted to the group. It’s an extension of what they want to achieve or work on. In this sense, the options are infinite.
Why implement coaching sessions amongst employees?
Many may think that it’s an unnecessary expense. What’s the point, if it doesn’t work? FIRST MISTAKE. Coaching has been proven to unite a team through the various techniques and activities they participate in.
Evidently, coaching doesn’t work miracles. Whoever partakes in coaching sessions needs to be open minded, emotionally receptive, and eager to optimise their productivity at work and, why not, on a personal level too. Executive coaching presents a great opportunity to introduce something new to the work routine of one’s employees, to improve communication within a team, and to prove to them that the company cares for them.
Benefits of executive coaching
- Empower whoever wants to reach specific objectives and dreams
- Focus on problems and convert them into opportunities and solutions
- Develop a sense of responsibility and initiative in a team
- Draw out a plan of action and bring up unforeseen circumstances and obstacles to overcome
- Bring to light the talents of each individual in a team
- Boost the sense of belonging within a group
- Improve self esteem on a professional and personal level
- Increase self assurance in the decision-making process
- Promote creativity
- Reduce stress
Es.cultura Events vouches for executive coaching
We could go on listing the benefits of coaching, but we’d quickly run out of space. Its benefits outweigh any possible negative comments that may brought against it; there’s simply no excuse to not try it at least once. We at Es.cultura Events have always valued team work. All for one, one for all. In fact, we regularly carry out coaching days for our own team. Last time we went on a ‘Coaching weekend‘: a weekend away all together filled with activities to improve communication between us and coaching sessions that made us reveal what were our individual goals within the company.
In addition, we also have one of our most ambitious initiatives, Talentus, focussed exactly on executive coaching for businesses. We aim to motivate employees and to bring out the best of each of them through a variety of activities that promote effective communication and the involvement of all.
We believe in creative programs, that are above all useful and productive to participants. We recently launched our workshop ‘Lego Serious Play’. Yes you read it correctly, as in the Lego blocks. It’s a technique used to enable critical thinking, communication, and problem solving within corporate work teams and also individuals on a personal level. We’ve already implemented the activity on a number of occasions and always with great success, due to the fact that it improves creativity and ingenuity while achieving the goals set from the start.
Another successful dynamic is our ‘Think Outside The Box‘ activity, once again born with Talentus. Much more than an activity in truth, it’s a team building activity used to develop new communication techniques and improve creative thinking. The idea is to overcome various new challenges that we create in order to obtain new perspectives during the thought process.
As you can see, there simply is no excuse not to try out executive coaching for your team. To innovate, to renew, and to better oneself. Are you ready to propel your company towards a new perspective? Contact us to organise your team building activities and incentive travel in Spain.
