The assessment explores how your personality style relates to coaching and interpersonal relationships. Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses. Understanding your personality and coaching styles in the workplace allows you to better understand why you behave the way you do, learn how to adapt your behavior to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and, ultimately, become a more effective coach.
The Coaching Process
Coaching brings about positive effects, as previously discussed, such as developing rapport, building clear communication pathways, building trust, and more. These are great effects of coaching that will positively affect your workplace and the team members in it. However, the focus of coaching conversation should always be based on (1) helping the employee recognize the need to improve their performance and (2) developing the employee’s commitment to improving performance.
When coaching, there should be a process that you follow and adapt for your employees:
- Begin by evaluating the skills, personality traits, and learning preferences of your employees.
- Define and share your vision for success.
- Create a compelling mission that resonates and inspires team members.
- Set timely and achievable goals.
- Meet with the team member regularly to help them with their goals and offer support and guidance.
The result of a coaching meeting should be a message sent and received about behavior. Both employees and managers need to be aware of and committed to specific actions that will align behavior with organizational goals and values. By upholding these values and guiding work toward these objectives (by coaching their employees), managers are building a better future for their organization.
Healthy employee-manager relationships can be an invaluable part of your organization’s culture. Build these healthy relationships with great coaching – let What’s My Coaching Style be your guide! You can learn more about the value of using this product in your training the webinar, What Does Your Coaching Style Say About You? presented by Alberta Lloyd.
