In addition to building techno functional capabilities, successful digital transformations require cultural and behavioral changes, such as increased collaboration or breaking out of silos, customer centricity, and calculated risk taking. Now these are attitudinal shifts, which if not embraced across the organization can derail any transformation. According to a McKinsey survey, cultural and behavioral challenges are the most significant, self reported barrier to digital effectiveness. Now, the single most successful and validated strategy that can achieve behavioral change, or change of any magnitude is coaching. With its roots in brain science coaching enables individuals and groups to make quantum leaps and transformations. This strategy can add the much needed base to enable a digital culture across the organization.

Here's how You can integrate coaching into your lnd strategy to power digital transformations. One, develop it as a core leadership competency. leaders who adopt the coaching style, empower, engage, and inspire their teams towards transformation goals at least three times more to integrate coaching at every step of the transformation, including planning, executing, and sustaining to enhance readiness, resilience and results. Coaching fits into the 20 of the 70 2010. If you wish to learn more, or need further insights and details on integrating coaching into your learning and development strategy, write to me for a discovery conversation.