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Coaching Your Way to Leadership

As work pressures mount on individuals in organizations, they are faced with mental challenges and face myriad issues in the workplace and need some good unbiased advice? The person who can help them best may be someone they already know well – YOU. Some organizations are looking at this as an opportunity where they can help the larger workforce deal with the problems being faced by lending a helping hand using the power of coaching. In one of the organizations I used to work for earlier, there was a clear cut approach towards developing coaches and individuals who demonstrated a high level of Emotional Quotient and Social Quotient were asked to take on informal coaching roles. In a sense it was a win-win situation as the individual and the organization benefited using the coaching model. Coaching by peers is a model where colleagues offer each other advice about issues each one is facing in the workplace. These could be issues around teaming, around dealing with performance prob