A step-by-step guide to igniting the coaching culture inside your team or organization.

Whether you work at a start-up, tech giant, or Fortune 500 company, we all encounter the same problems that arise every day in our quest for results: stubborn obstacles that are difficult to break through, lofty goals and objectives we are accountable to achieve, new and challenging tasks that we’ve never done before. In our efforts to meet these challenges and boost our potential with courses, trainings, and self-help materials, we may be overlooking our greatest resource for achieving breakthrough performance - the people around us.

How, exactly, do we tap into this reserve of expertise that already exists in the teams and organizations we work in every day? The team at the coaching and leadership training company Zero to Ten proposes the way: Self-Directed Performance Coaching. A far cry from the fruitless workshops and meaningless training initiatives that often don’t work, this modern methodology takes a bottom-up approach that shifts the responsibility of leading the coach-learner relationship away from the coach and into the hands of the learner. Now, everyone, at every level, can have a coach anytime they need it and for anything, they might be doing.

Anyone from brand-new hires to senior leaders can benefit from Self-Directed Performance Coaching. All you have to do is:

• Identify your "Most Important Thing" - that big presentation you want to nail, client you want to acquire, or promotion you want to attain.
• Find a coach who’s a "Level Up" - someone who has paved the path for you by already achieving your "Most Important Thing".
• Coach your coach - navigate each coaching session with clear-cut strategies designed to capitalize on your time together.
• Be a coach - share your newly gained abilities with others.