Coaching for Success
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Coaching for Success
Coaching stands out as one of the most potent tools for enhancing performance, accessible to managers, team leaders, and colleagues. This article defines coaching and presents a structured approach for conducting it effectively.
Understanding Coaching
If you're aiming to boost your team's skills, it's essential to observe and provide feedback. As a manager with a busy schedule, helping employees become proficient and independent quickly is crucial.
Entelechy’s Coaching Model can assist you in achieving this goal. It’s suitable for skill development in employees who are eager to improve. Coaching should not replace corrective actions for performance issues, which should be addressed through a Problem-Solving model.
Key Principles of the Coaching Model
1. Primary Goals: Improve performance and help employees develop self-assessment skills.
2. Structured Sessions: A predictable process makes coachees more at ease and ensures active participation. Share the coaching model with employees beforehand.
3. Planned Development: Coaching is intentional and should be expected, not surprising.
4. Set the Tone: The way you initiate the conversation influences the entire session.
5. Begin with Positives: Start with strengths to motivate and build self-esteem. It encourages a positive mindset conducive to performance enhancement.
6. Conclude with Development Areas: Ensure focus on areas needing improvement.
7. Encourage Self-Assessment: Let coachees evaluate themselves first. This fosters continuous improvement and boosts confidence.
8. Reinforce Accuracy: Support correct self-assessments.
9. Redirect Inaccuracies: Guide inappropriate or incorrect self-assessments gently.
10. Limit Focus Areas: Concentrate on two strengths and two areas for improvement to enhance proficiency and prioritize key issues.
11. Use Targeted Questions: Help coachees self-identify missed areas using specific questions. This identifies if the issue stems from awareness, skill, or willingness.
Applying the Coaching Model
Step 1: Open the Conversation
Start with a broad question to gauge the coachee's self-evaluation. This helps align coaching if perceptions mismatch, like when a coachee thinks a poor call was excellent.
Step 2: Identify Strengths
Ask the coachee to reflect on what went well. This sets a positive tone and reinforces desired behaviors. Encourage the coachee to recognize exceptional performance.
Sub-Step: Redirect or Defer
If negatives arise during positive discussions, defer them for later. If positives are misconstrued, gently highlight observations that suggest otherwise.
Sub-Step: Support and Build
Agree with accurate self-assessments and build on them to validate and reinforce the coachee’s evaluation skills.
Step 3: Discuss Development Areas
Prompt the coachee to identify what they'd change. This mental rehearsal increases the likelihood of improvement without your direct input. Limit focus to two or three key areas to prevent overwhelm.
Redirect their perception if they miss significant areas, prompting reflection on the impacts of their actions.
Step 4: Summarize and Encourage
Conclude by summarizing key points and the planned improvements. Reinforce the positive changes, enhancing retention and motivation.
By following these steps, you can effectively boost the performance of your employees and colleagues. Stay tuned for our next issue, where we'll explore giving feedback within this framework.
(Adapted from Coaching for Performance, part of Entelechy's High Performance Management program. Explore this and other resources at www.unlockit.com.)
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