Leaders and managers continue to be called upon to coach their staff and teams. Our seventh cartoon in the Teams365 series illustrates these five essential coaching skills for leaders. We will be exploring the topic of coaching skills for leaders in the next week or two.
The five skills are:
1. Builds trust and gets to know your team members
2. Asking Questions to stimulate thinking, support action and awareness. Questions to build on what team members already know.
3. Listening - really listening
4. Goal Setting – Supports SMART-E Goal Setting
5. Focuses on Accountability and works with your staff member to check in around their progress regularly
Coaching in general is all about supporting you team in creating awareness supporting and action. Action, and getting things done is critical in today’s business environment. At the same time, action, without insight can lead us astray. Leaders play an important role in helping team members work through, and think through decisions, perceptions and other areas
Activity
Consider these five areas. On a scale of 1-10 where do your strengths lie?
Future blog posts this week will look at each of these areas.
The five skills are:
1. Builds trust and gets to know your team members
2. Asking Questions to stimulate thinking, support action and awareness. Questions to build on what team members already know.
3. Listening - really listening
4. Goal Setting – Supports SMART-E Goal Setting
5. Focuses on Accountability and works with your staff member to check in around their progress regularly
Coaching in general is all about supporting you team in creating awareness supporting and action. Action, and getting things done is critical in today’s business environment. At the same time, action, without insight can lead us astray. Leaders play an important role in helping team members work through, and think through decisions, perceptions and other areas
Activity
Consider these five areas. On a scale of 1-10 where do your strengths lie?
Future blog posts this week will look at each of these areas.
Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Consider joining us for an upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Coaching Group
(416)996-8326
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Consider joining us for an upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Coaching Group
(416)996-8326
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