It's challenging to find the best ways to set up your workplace for long-term success. When  you consider implementing coaching into your business, you have to think about how you’re going to pay for the services—and whether hiring a coach is a good investment for your company.

These are all valid questions. You need to make the best decision for the growth and health of your business. But one thing to consider is this: Your organization grows when you take time to develop the people you work with. When you invest in your employees, you invest in your business’s future. Coaching helps you find better ways to operate as an organization and set goals for achieving measurable success.

Benefits of Coaching in the Workplace

Improves Skills

Coaching improves various skills in your employees, including communication, goal-setting, and leadership within your company. Giving people the tools to perform better in their roles increases their confidence and overall job performance—which leads to more success and efficiency.

• 70% of organizations reported better individual job performance after recruiting an executive coach.
• 72% of companies report that coaching increases productivity.
• 62% of leaders report a positive impact on their leadership skills through coaching.

Better Workplace Relationships

Your employees benefit from coaching because they’re equipped to understand their environment and relate to the people they work with. Understanding yourself and others makes your workplace run more efficiently and effectively.

• 70% of coaching clients improved their workplace relationships, work performance, and communication.
• Workplace coaching reduces conflict by 30% in organizations.
• Coaching improves employee-manager relationships and reduces turnover by 14.9%.

Job Satisfaction

Providing a coach for your workplace shows your employees you care about their experience, growth, and development. A supportive work environment gives people more reasons to stay—it creates a culture of long-term commitment.

• 60% of employees stay with their company for more than five years when they receive coaching.
• Companies experience a 23% increase in employee retention when their leaders receive coaching.
• Leaders who receive coaching have a 67% higher employee satisfaction rate. 

Types of Coaching to Benefit Your Workplace

Executive Coaching

Executive coaching provides tools to help you succeed in high-level roles and lead your organization effectively. If you’re a top executive or part of an executive team, this type of coaching helps you identify your strengths, clarify your goals, and outline the action steps you need to keep your workplace running smoothly. It offers a deeper understanding of your leadership style and provides solutions related to your context.

Personal Development Coaching

A personal development coach works with individuals at any level of your organization and creates customized solutions for employee growth and engagement. These coaches build one-on-one relationships with team members, guiding them through a process of professional development, and helping them apply their strengths, manage stress, and improve workplace relationships.

Team Coaching

Team coaching focuses on groups—sometimes entire organizations—to implement best practices in communication and collaboration. A team coach helps your company develop practical tools for understanding each person’s communication style, work approach, and way of viewing the world—making it easier for everyone to work together and produce better results.

Common Signs Your Workplace Needs Coaching

Low Productivity

Your team has incredible talent—everyone knows how to perform at high levels and generate great ideas to increase your company’s impact. But for some reason, no matter how many ideas come to the table, there’s no follow-through. All the great plans you create never gain traction—and as a result, your workplace becomes stagnant, with little to no growth.

Whether it’s team dynamics, a lack of clarity around strengths and weaknesses, or gaps in the creative process, coaching helps identify where your organization gets stuck and develop a plan to remove obstacles.

If you have an innovative team struggling to implement ideas to grow your business and serve your clients better, hiring a coach helps your team overcome obstacles, boost productivity, and work more effectively to push your ideas through.

High Turnover

When people don’t stay with your organization and you're constantly hiring to fill positions, something isn't working. Unstable work environments lower morale, making it hard for employees to operate at full capacity.

There are many causes of high turnover—sometimes it's an issue with leadership, and other times, it’s related to workplace culture and how people interact during meetings and projects. Whatever the case, employee turnover often points to a deeper issue.

Hiring a coach—someone outside your organization who evaluates how your workplace operates—provides a fresh perspective. They help you find solutions and create an environment where people feel understood, supported, and motivated to stay long-term.

Poor Communication

When people don’t know how to communicate effectively, it’s easy to feel misunderstood, which leads to conflict and makes collaboration difficult. Poor communication disconnects team members, reducing engagement and productivity.

People with different personalities and perspectives strengthen your workplace. Everyone brings unique strengths, expertise, and ways of seeing the world—But this only works best when people take time to understand each other's differences.

Hiring a coach to evaluate your workplace dynamics helps you uncover common patterns of miscommunication. Coaches work with your team to improve communication, increase morale, and enhance productivity.

Coaching is especially helpful when the coach understands different personality types and communication styles. They help your team understand themselves and others better—improving collaboration and overall workplace culture.

Conclusion

Developing your team is an investment—and it's one worth making. When you have an opportunity to help your workers perform more effectively, it pays off in the long run. If you're considering hiring a coach for your workplace, Story & Style Coaching has several tools to help your team excel in leadership, communication, and collaboration.

Schedule your free call today, and we’ll discuss specific ways to help your team operate at its highest level.

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