How to Use Coaching to Sustainably Grow Your Company
In the scale-up stage, it is all about the people.
Nikos Moraitakis and Spyros Magiatis launched Workable in 2012. They were frustrated with the effort it took to recruit suitable candidates, and they decided to fix it. Six years and 50 million candidates later, Workable was already the leading hiring platform in the world. They had offices across three continents and hundreds of employees.
In November 2018, they raised an additional $50 million to make the company even better. A couple of months later, I received a call from the CEO Nikos Moraitakis. He wanted to discuss coaching.
“I care about my leaders,” he told me. “I want to support them in any way I can.”
Moraitakis wanted his team to remain happy and fulfilled with their work as the company grew. He wanted them to expand their skills so that they could all get the company to the next level together. When one of his VPs asked for coaching support, he listened.
The challenge
Moraitakis believed in his team’s potential, and he wanted coaching to amplify it. The company’s success led to exponential growth. Many Workable leaders moved from individual contributors to managers to VPs…
