Leadership in Action: In Focus - Coaching - Business Leaders Reflect on Coaching Cultures

SEISMIC SHIFTS

Respondents were asked to describe their company's culture according to a series of attributes. They then were asked to describe what a coaching culture would look like in their company. Contrasting the two sets of responses revealed how the respondents believed that achieving a coaching culture would affect each cultural attribute.

The respondents believed that some seismic shifts in their respective cultures were possible:

• Thirty-six percent said that achieving a coaching culture would increase leaders' active contributions to the development of others; 32 percent said it would improve the way they routinely review and manage people's performance.
• Thirty-two percent said that achieving a coaching culture would increase the sharing ...