Coaching is a powerful means to unlock human potential. In the workplace, a manager who can coach their subordinates can generate enormous benefits for self and team. The PEARLS Coaching Framework enables leaders to become antifragile towards the organisation’s desired future reality. The PEARLS methodology provides a robust methodology by which leaders can coach their team members through a number of workplace topics, and explore domains of growth and learning through generative conversations. In the workplace, a manager who can coach their subordinates stand to improve engagement and quality of relationship within their team. The tools within PEARLS are designed to allow leaders to become more antifragile.
Antifragility refers to a characteristic in people who thrive in spite of stressors. This means they bounce back even stronger when under stress. Within the workplace context, the PEARLS Coaching Framework strengthens self and teams by unlocking purpose, mastery and autonomy. This generates the necessary motivation and positive energy towards key outcomes by developing productive high-performing teams – thereby creating Antifragile and Thriving organisations.
We thrive when we engage in deep reflective thinking, thinking about our thinking and questioning assumptions. This is termed double loop learning. Many employees today are stuck in single-loop thinking where they respond to inputs to make adjustments to achieve set outcomes. Double loop learning is the seat of self-mastery and the main reason why people and organisations are resilient and thrive. Antifragility takes the concept of resilience and push it further. It represents the power of breaking forth, just like how a seed might need to emerge from the soil and sprout from the ground. Antifragility is generative and the concept can be extended from individuals to teams to organisations.
At the organisation level, coaches can bring antifragility a notch higher by encouraging leaders to pay attention to random and uncoordinated actions across teams. Workplace coaches can help leaders think about redundancy so there is no single point of failure. This is where the thinking principles of PEARLS become the foundation in which workplace coaching for growth takes place.
Having a systems-thinking approach and understanding complexity that is aligned to organisational aspirations is critical. This allows for generative conversations to take place by tapping into double-loop learning. Ultimately, at the systems level, antifragile units are made up of antifragile team members who live out their life of purpose, taking many small risks and constantly learning. Teams with such a growth mindset and fortified through Workplace Coaching are instrumental in building organisations that do not falter in VUCAH times when under duress.
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