Increasing business ecosystem capacity through coaching
There are many benefits from having an intense course of one-on-one coaching, irrespective of the level of responsibility you have for innovation and business ecosystem thinking and designing within your organization.
In some ways it builds upon a similar approach to management behavioral coaching, one that is designed to change perceptions, re-orientate your thinking and approach it opens up to different thinking to build out your innovation understanding.
Coaching, advising and mentoring each require a combination of strategic thinking, interpersonal skills, and a deepening understanding of the dynamics of interconnected organizations.
Gaining a clear coaching return
Coaching yields a clear return but the hard work lies with the one being coached wanting to see the alternatives, and recognizing that this often re-calibrates your thinking to alter your present daily actions and working outlook.
A big part of this Ecosystem work is comprehension, reduce uncertainties and anxieties, to gain a greater confidence to experiment and draw others into a trusting, highly collaborative relationship of engagement, learning and managing diversity of opinions.
Passing through Coaching stages
Increasingly your innovation and business ecosystem knowledge and understanding goes through coaching stages, from building out 1) the interest stage, into 2) definition and relating stages, then moving into 3) adoption and gaining, 4) increasing optimization. and finally, 5) maturity level of what success looks like and its leadership needs.
Working with us through some intensive and context-specific sessions, you quickly deepen your personal knowledge and accelerate your critical business awareness and contribution. There are many building blocks for Ecosystem thinking and appreciation.
Here are some of the aspects considered when it comes to Innovation & Business Ecosystem coaching:
- Understand the Ecosystem Dynamics:
- Clarify Goals and Objectives:
- Build Trust and Relationships:
- Facilitate Collaboration:
- Provide Strategic Guidance:
- Foster Innovation:
- Adaptability and Resilience:
- Develop Leadership Skills:
- Metrics and Measurement:
- Continuous Learning:
- Stay Neutral and Impartial:
- Legal and Ethical Considerations:
Our coaching is tailored specifically as an individual process and not all these areas might not be applicable to each person. That is decided between us in the setting up of the program design. flexibility, adaptability and a genuine commitment to the success of the ecosystem coaching are key factors for effective guidance and recognizing what is appropriate in the design and implementation.
Our innovation and business ecosystem coaching approach establishes the environment for an ideal safe exchange to enable aspects to quickly take hold and be translated in these confidential sessions.
Leaders, champions, sponsors and teams can gain from this in combined coaching the group and the nominated individuals.
The Real Tipping Point in your understanding comes through ‘tailored’ coaching where you see real benefits by discussing why and this, in my opinion, always is framed around content and context:
•Context matters a great deal
•Content needs to offer a total solution
•Success takes time & effort
•Application and Experimentation builds the outcome
The key is finding a release of working time from your present activities to focus on adding new value to the Business future, and a need for hard wiring becomes essential to achieve this shift
I wrote this sometime back “Learning the Mantra of Innovation Context” It has value to read.
I take the approach to coaching innovation in multiple ways:
•Our approach is a mix of questioning, listening and re-skilling techniques and why this make sense.
•We normally recommend coaching on a 1to1 basis as ideal, but this can also be in team situations also, although it does have a different approach.
•This coaching is always innovation and business ecosystem-centric. It is central in everything we do in these 1on1 sessions in building out understanding and your competencies and capabilities.
•Ownership lies with the person being coached, and we seek to transfer the necessary insight and knowledge quickly and effectively. We advance on your understanding and agreement.
What you find is sufficient facilitation for the unscrambling of many random thoughts and provides the clarity of piecing the business ecosystem puzzle altogether.
Results are self-determined
It is yours alone to finally assimilate and use this new knowledge gained; we will help you achieve your personal goals, provide a fresh dimension, and place innovation and business ecosystem understanding into the context necessary. It is your understanding, uptake and application that eventually yields the result.
Why not contact me to learn more about several unique ways we approach innovation through coaching or mentoring? Many of these become ‘deep dives’ to provide the necessary breakthroughs and sustain personal or team value investments.
Contact Paul to learn more about how he can help you with your innovation journey. An initial investment of a thirty-minute call can make a real innovating and business ecosystem difference in your thinking and design considerations