I could easily discuss how coaching improves performance, increases employee retention/satisfaction, and reduces workplace drama, or how it promotes creativity, breakthrough performance, and resilience, but these are all secondary to the primary benefit: it builds solid leadership and promotes personal development.

NYU has a commitment to cultivating leadership.  This is reflected in the many programs and initiatives throughout NYU both with students and employees.  A good example is the free Critical Skills for Emerging Leaders certificate program found in iLearn.

I propose adopting coaching to become a better leader and for your own personal development.  Good leadership is fundamental to any efforts in improving the performance of those responsible to us.  As author and speaker John C. Maxwell wrote:

“Most people want to change the world to improve their lives, but the world they need to change first is the one inside themselves.”

In adopting coaching into the workplace, you will become a better leader, and in turn, your coaching and leadership will bring out the best in others. If you want to envision what an organization that embraces coaching in the workplace looks like, explore the idea of a strengths-based culture.