How Agile Coaching Can Keep You Motivated

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving business world where statistics and dollar amounts often cast a shadow on the people that ultimately make them possible to begin with, the human element often is perceived to be and is approached as ancillary or secondary to the overarching goals of the businesses where people usually work in teams, sometimes at odd hours, drinking coffee to try and stay awake and focused. 

While expectations of productivity and compliance are made into asymptotic goals that the workers must achieve in spite of rather than by way of their own human nature and tendencies, it is all too easy to disregard the importance and indeed the existence of motivation. It is often expected and demanded of workers and by people with little actual understanding of what it entails and how to cultivate it in others of lower pay grades, an unfortunate disconnect created and enabled by the modern almost pyramidal corporate hierarchies and divisions of labor. 

As a result, frustration quickly ensures when the particular quality of work does not satisfy the seemingly arbitrary expectations of those in higher positions who benefit from the labor of those in whom disappointment grows. However, in spite of this unfortunate reality, there are so-called agile solutions and strategies to help motivate employees that have been tested and proven to work.

1. Affirms your Humanity

So what is agile coaching then, and how can it help keep you motivated? Essentially, it is a strategy that aims to better align workers' goals with their employers' mission statements and assign workers to roles for which they are best suited in order to promote organic and authentic efficiency, cohesion, and self-sufficiency within the business and among its members. 

It does not focus on the company's numerical and financial results in the short term but rather helps workers discover for themselves and work towards their very own best fit within their company and industry in order to maximize the long term success of not only the company the workers happen to be working in at the time but indeed that of the workers themselves and any business they may work for in the future.

2. Promotes Self-Sufficiency

Agile coaches offer consistent guidance in real-time to workers in a way that does not dictate to them what to do to satisfy the company but rather affirms them by formulating endeavors that they can complete on their own to cultivate confidence, self-awareness, resilience, and independence, which they can then bring to the company as invaluable intangible assets. 

In this sense, it is a grassroots rather than a trickle-down approach that affirms rather than relegates the human element and its importance in succeeding in the business world, eschewing a simplistic system of rewards and punishments that can easily become corrupted and counterproductive. In fact, with the proper investment, the quality, as well as the quantitative value of the potential outcomes, can go on to be of untold magnitude.

3. Embodies Integrity

In addition to providing motivation by way of methods and strategies, agile coaches can best help keep you motivated by practicing what they preach and serving as not just competent but genuine and authentic role models. By displaying and demonstrating motivations in what they do in addition to what they say and advise to you, they project contagious positive energy that can infect those with whom they work and interact. 

Even if the exact roles and duties are not identical, the underlying motivation and ability to intuit and become attuned to one's own internal dialogue and goals, not just in terms of profitability but also personal productivity, are what makes agile coaching so invaluable.

As businesses constantly seek to maximize their profits and gains, the workers who work for them, distanced by hierarchical barriers and impersonal expectations, become almost invisible. The human element, difficult enough to quantify, gets ignored and relegated to a lesser role.

This is where agile coaching helps not only maximize the financial efficiency of business teams but their long term self-sufficiency and a deeper sense of motivation and connection to what they do for the company and for the other members of the teams on which they work. Without proper motivation, keeping up in the corporate world will only become more and more unsustainable and seemingly pointless for all involved.