Probably everyone at one time or another has wanted to help someone else improve at what they were doing. Parents watching their children grow, supervisors and managers on the job, friends supporting each other etc.

Coaching involves expanding people's capacity to make a difference with individuals, the company and their world.  It involves impacting their vision and values and will help them make changes to their behaviours.  It is about them achieving what they want to achieve, and you being there to encourage and support them to reach their goal.

Coaching is a journey, and I encourage you to practice and practice, to review what you are doing so that you refresh your skills and employ new methods. As you coach more people on your journey, you - as a coach - will continue to grow.  Make sure you keep your knowledge up to date.

Why coach people?

Coaching will help to:

·    improve performance

·    identify goals to work towards

·    help them achieve their goals

·    retain top staff

·    develop leaders for the company

·    develop a person for the talent pipeline

·    ensure success for new employees

Coaching can also improve teamwork, relationships between peers, lead to more job satisfaction and may also reduce conflict in the workplace.

What is coaching?

A quick Google search suggests 1,800,000,000 results in 0.56 seconds to that question.  Quite an array of answers - and not all of them helpful!  One of the better ones from a respected source is this:

“This intervention helps managers and executives to clarify their goals, deals with potential stumbling blocks, and improve their performance. It often involves a one-on-one relationship between the coach and the client and focuses on personal learning that gets transferred into results and more effective leadership skills.”

(Cummings & Worley, 2005, p. 47)

As with most things in life there are several 'varieties' of coaching: personal, life, career, business, team, executive, sports, youth, retirement.

Want help with adding coaching skills to your management role?  Contact me carol@onedaytraining.co.nz