Scott Donald, SBD Growth Strategies’ Post

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Hi everyone, Scott of SBD Growth, hope you're doing well. Impromptu video from a webinar with just on and yes, you can see I have a new book there. Mrs Donald found it on sale for me. So I have some more reading to do. So today's video is about the question about what's more important or what's more valuable. Where do you get more ROI on training or on coaching? And of course, since it's my video, I have an opinion on it. So this webinar I was just on talked about how organizations spend billions of dollars on training, which I think is important, right? Whether it's sales training or leadership training, you know, investing your employees is really critical. And there's an old saying that "what if you don't invest in training and they stay"? So again, that's not the issue. But I'm also seeing lots of organizations and lots of focus on coaching and coaching alone. So my humble opinion on this is that it's not an either or, it's both. Training is super important. But so is coaching and I think really that it's where they come together is where the where the magic happens. And I'll go back to the sports analogies that I like to use where if you think about a hockey team, because I'm here in Canada, but of course it works for any individual or team sport. There is lots of training on skills. So whether that's, you know, skating and puckhandling or whether it's running routes and blocking and tackling or any of those things. The highest performing individuals and teams work on their skills. But there's also lots of coaching in there. It's, it's an inherited baked into the process, right? So, you know, the coach or the coaches are in there actively working with the, with the players, the athletes and supporting them and mentoring them and coaching them throughout the training process. So if we look at sports and, and we admire these athletes and these teams for their ability to perform at the highest level. What lessons can we take from that? And again, the the hypothesis of this video is that the training is important. And so is the coaching. And it's when you use those two together that you get the the the most the most powerful results and the best ROI on your investment. So was it leadership or coaching? I would argue that it's leadership AND coaching. Thanks everybody and have a great day.