INDUSTRY RESEARCH

The Critical Role of Leadership Coaching: A Business Imperative for the Future of Work

Against a backdrop of continual change, organizations are struggling to make strategic decisions leading to the growth of their businesses. Facing an overwhelming number of choices and an abundance of information, leaders need strategic thinking and decision-making capabilities more than ever. We surveyed 405 learning leaders of U.S. companies employing more than 1,000 workers to gain insights into how their organizations are using tech-enabled leadership coaching to address their leadership gaps.

Understand key capabilities needed for success

Learning leaders face heightened pressure to ensure leaders are prepared to meet unforeseen challenges. They’re turning to tech-enabled leadership coaching to accomplish this daunting task.

Focus on high-potential frontline workers

In the current environment of near constant disruption, organizations need to equip talent in all segments, especially frontline workers, with the skills they need to navigate the future of work.

Measure the results of leadership coaching

As learning leaders place more importance on developing business-critical capabilities, they’re emphasizing bottom-line oriented metrics like speed to competency and financial measurement.

Bridging the leadership gap

Sounding Board empowers forward-thinking companies to bridge leadership gaps at all levels, and ensure that both organizations and employees thrive in a global marketplace marked by disruption and continuous change.

The Sounding Board Leadership Platform combines solution design, adaptive software, people-to-people development, and proprietary data and insights — all customizable to drive and scale people strategy.