What Are the Benefits to Me?

Career Moves
If you have a strong team working with you, then your chances of being able to continue on your career are greater.

Some people are threatened by assuming that if the team is strong there will be no place for them? However, just the opposite is true Employers are looking for leaders that can build strong teams. There is no better example of your worth to a company than the success of your team.

By coaching your team, you are preparing them for their next career step. If no one can fill your shoes, how can you ever expect to move on.

Employers today are looking to their leaders to think more strategically. No longer is it acceptable to focus on the day to day issues. The team is accountable for the day to day decisions. No longer can successful organizations have layers and layers of Managers. We see flattening of structures in all progressive corporations today.

Time
With all the changes affecting today’s workplace, the one thing that no one seems to have enough of is “time”.

By coaching your team, their skills will become stronger. The day to day decisions can be made by them rather than you using your time to make all the decisions.

Sharing information will allow you to delegate assignments that only you had control of in the past. This information will allow the team to make decisions and will also educate them to help identify areas where they can implement change that will improve the performance of the team.

By involving all levels in the companies' directions and goals, and by sharing the information, you are allowing people to have a better understanding of the whole process rather than keeping people narrowly focused on their job. You will find by having people understand the bigger picture, they will have individual suggestions to improve areas that they didn’t understand they could impact. People need to understand how their role fits with the entire organization. People need to understand the importance of their role. If they have no sense of ownership and don’t understand the impact they have, they will not undertake to find ways they could improve the business.

And what about time for you and your personal life? Balance in your life between work and your personal life is very important. Without balance, you eventually burnout negatively affecting your performance at work.