COACHING OTHERS TO GROW AS SKILLED COACHES

WHY COACH?

WHAT KIND OF RETURN DOES ONE GET WHEN INVESTING VALUABLE TIME INTO COACHING?

Every organization has its own approach to performance management and coaching, but all models view coaching as interactive. When you coach, you listen actively, ask questions, share views, and negotiate solutions. You give and receive feedback.

Coaching helps individuals grow as professionals and contribute fully to the success of an organization. Done well, it can turn performance management into a collaborative process that benefits everyone.

Coaching focuses on both what needs improvement and what has gone well. The overall goal remains to help people become more effective. You coach individuals to help them overcome personal obstacles, maximize individual strengths, and reach their full potential.

Coaching takes time, but the benefits become far more rewarding than the time it takes to coach.  these benefits include:

§         Increased employee satisfaction

§         More productive work groups for individuals who feel ready for new responsibilities

As a manager, you may set goals quarterly or review performance annually, but you do not coach on a fixed schedule. Coaching remains ongoing and flexible. Sometimes you schedule coaching sessions about particular situations. More often, you coach informally as you interact with individuals in person, by phone, or through e-mail in your day-to-day activities.

Showing an interest in others contributes to positive, working relationships. Coaching builds trust between managers and direct reports.

In today's environment of changing technology and evolving organizations, coaching can have a strategic impact. It provides continuous learning and develops people to meet current and future needs. Coaching reflects an investment that you make in developing your key resource people for the long-term benefit of your organization.

Gulfstone has developed a program that trains coaches to train others to grow as skilled coaches.  In this program, the participants will walk away with the ability to impart critical information that will enable and empower other trainees to impart coaching skills to perpetuate the coaching environment.