Coaching World Issue 17: February 2016 | Page 25

Global Views What’s one step you’re taking to grow your coaching business in 2016? We looked at cost-effective routes to sharing our “gift” with the world and one major step we decided to take this year to grow our coaching practice is to build our social media presence and online brand. We decided to outsource our social media management to a professional social media management company to help build followership and regular media messages and campaigns on all major social media platforms used by our target audience (Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook). We have also recorded video clips targeted at our potential clients’ needs for YouTube and our website. 2016 promises to be an exciting year! —Ajibola Yewande Ponnle, ACC (Nigeria) In 2016, the focus is on showcasing to clients ROI with respect to coaching-based interventions. Using proprietary tools we want to measure how individuals who have undergone coaching are coming across to others as leaders. So instead of measuring how an individual has moved in his or her emotional intelligence capabilities, we are going to check whether these new capabilities are being demonstrated in the workplace. The tool enables us to track the individual team energy, pre- and post-coaching. This will help the coach and the individual to come up with pragmatic action plans and also track progress. I believe this measurement approach will be key in delivering value to clients. —Sunil Kumar Tadepalli (India) I will apply systemic coaching more to organizations as well as individual Executive Coaching to enhance the team dynamics within the organizations. I will also actively utilize ICF’s industry research to demonstrate the value of coaching. Coaching World —Yumiko Shito, PCC ( Japan) 25