The Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Coach in Organizations

Originally Submitted on 9/30/98.

The world we live in today will not be the world we work in tomorrow!

1. Rising complexity

In today's nanosecond world, iteration is increasing at an alarming rate. The number of interactions that take place on a minute by minute basis due to the connecting of our world are ominous in the least. Sorting out issues and finding ways to simplify our lives are becoming key competencies as complexity continues to manifest.

2. Rapid change and the need for adaptive response

Attempting to deal with the blinding speed of real time environments is forcing us to see and deal with change across a broad range of issues--simultaneously. Never before has there been such a need to form adaptive responses in organizations to competitive challenges and complex environments.

3. Required performance

There is no mission without a margin. It's easy to confuse the two. While altruism is required in today's often faceless workplace, we MUST perform. Our teams, organizations and communities must meet pressing needs or be replaced by more effective mechanisms. Daily challenges emphasize the requirement for performance.

4. Desire for holism

There isn't anyone who doesn't want more balance in their lives among the requirements of the workplace, home and community. We act in concert with all of our environment, not with just fragments. The desire to be and feel whole in a world of seemingly disparate parts has never been higher.

5. Need for interpersonal harmony

Organizations today--through technology--have become boundaryless and global. We work with people we don't see, people we don't know and people in all phases of organizational inertia. The requirement for harmony and interpersonal success has never been greater. The requirements on the work group to perform, also place requirements on people to communicate, to work harmoniously with difficult cross-functional and cross-cultural challenges.

6. Sustainability

Requirements for sustainability, not just one-time success are ever-present. Personal and organizational needs for sustainability and for living in sustainable environments means that we must view our actions in respect to the whole--organization, community and world.

7. Continuous innovation

As noted earlier in the response to change, our lives are undergoing requirements for constant innovation. We have been given the gift of creativity and the opportunity to choose in the face of continuous challenge. Creating a world far beyond our wildest imagination is becoming more than a possibility.

8. Improving the productivity of knowledge workers

Peter Drucker states that the productivity of knowledge workers has not increased measurably for perhaps 200 years. Technology confounds our ability to be productive. Learning to become more productive as we collaborate in the age of knowledge will be a key success factor.

9. Finding the authentic self

Scattered among the requirements of home, work and community lies the authentic self. A great philosopher once said that the unexamined life is not worth living. In these times--of no time--we often find our identity scattered like the leaves in the wind as each new gust of demand realigns our self towards a more pressing end. Who are we...really? How does that effect the organization?

10. Connecting

Connecting with self, with spirit and with each other. Running in parallel, the demands of our lives pull hard on the traces...It is easy to feel lost, to lose one's self and one's nature among the forest of organization. Creating unity and integrity among our pursuits is a desire for all of us...in organization.

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