What’s the goal of a coaching culture?
Empowering staff to close the rhetoric/reality gap by using coaching to lead, manage, influence, collaborate, and communicate.

What will you see in a coaching culture?
In addition to staff participating in formal coaching, you will see:

• More listening, less talking
  
• More inquiring, less advising
  
• More focusing others on taking SMART actions, less letting others pursue undefined actions
  
• More encouraging, less criticizing
  
• More empowering others to solve their problems, less solving others’ problems

What benefits does a coaching culture provide for you?

• More collaboration, less conflict
  
• More results, less activity
  
• More staff being supported, encouraged, and held accountable to achieve goals; less staff just being assigned goals
  
• More focus on the mission, less focus on other good things
  
• More smart work, less hard work
  
• More pursuit of defined excellence, less pursuit of undefined excellence

What problems can a coaching culture help you address?

• Low morale
  
• Miscommunication
  
• Fear of change
  
• Underperformance
  
• Staff attrition

What factors encourage a coaching culture to start growing?
Leaders and managers supporting a coaching culture by:

• Getting formal coaching
  
• Getting basic coach training
  
• Coaching staff members
  
• Using coaching throughout each day
  
• Talking about how coaching has helped them and the organization

Staff:

• Getting trained on how to benefit from coaching
  
• Getting formal coaching

To begin establishing a coaching culture, take this self-assessment.