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The pandemic has raised new managerial needs for companies unfamiliar with managing their employees remotely. Perfect Mind Coach Academy Leader Kamil Murat Özlen said, “Due to the distributed business model, which is the new normal of the business world, companies that gain the competencies of being a team and leading will gain a competitive advantage. Moreover, research indicates that 63% of companies that develop their employees' leadership competencies will earn more.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - The remote working order created by the pandemic brought management challenges for companies with traditional corporate structures. As companies include leadership and coaching investment in their new investment plans, the search for managers with leadership qualities has increased. According to LinkedIn's data, companies' search for leadership in executive hiring has increased by more than 50 percent since 2019. Making an assessment on the subject, Perfect Mind Coach Academy Leader, MCC Koç and Mentor Kamil Murat Özlen said, “The remote working process brought the concepts of teamwork and leadership to the forefront for companies. As a reflection of this, the share of leadership and coaching training has increased in the programs of institutions providing personal development and consultancy services. As Perfect Mind Coach Academy, we increased the leadership and team coaching time share of our internationally approved trainings to 35 percent by 2020. Companies that involve their managers and teams in the team game by adapting coaching and leadership training to their business processes will be able to leave permanent traces in the future.”

63% of companies that provide leadership training to their employees earn more

Companies that adopt the strategy of being a team in the world show a growth-oriented development as well as productivity. According to statistics published by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), 63% of companies that develop their employees' leadership competencies achieve higher revenue growth compared to their competitors. Nearly 40% of Fortune 500 companies implement standard leadership training for their senior executives. Companies that have started to work in a wide variety of locations and with a hybrid working model due to the pandemic also need leaders to shed light on teams in order to catch up with the requirements of the digital age.

Future leaders will be part of the team game

Pointing out that visionary companies in the world and in Turkey largely give place to coaching and leadership training in their investments in human resources, Özlen made the following assessment on the subject: “Now, companies have realized that they need to make their employees more equipped emotionally, administratively and technologically. Those who did not take steps to change in time experienced an important awareness in this period. While stress and crisis management created great pressure on employees in this process, the importance of being a leader and being a team was clearly understood. Companies now know very well that the leaders of the future will be part of the team game for sustainable success. For this reason, they made more room in their investments for leadership and team coaching trainings for both management and teams.”

Leaders landed on the field

Stating that the distributed working model that emerged with the pandemic will be made productive by concepts such as teamwork, emotional leadership, coaching and mentoring, where the leader is also on the field, Özlen said, “A manager with leadership skills plays a major role in the team's transformation into a team and its emotional endurance. While researches show that maximum 20% of team members contribute to the goal in a company, this rate is much higher for those who succeed in being a team. At this point, a manager who receives leadership training can create a sense of belonging by providing motivation among team members, complementing strengths and weaknesses with each other, and using emotional intelligence and empathy. With this formula, while leadership becomes permanent, teams turn into winning teams together and can increase productivity in the company.”