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How to Improve Your Coaching Techniques

October 17, 2024
Coaching Skills

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By Tayna Longino

October 17, 2024
Coaching Skills

How to Improve Your Coaching Techniques

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Effective coaching sessions are necessary in order to succeed. It can benefit both the leader who is doing the coaching and the employee who is being coached. But, there are specific ways to coach in order to create the best possible results.

Coaching skills can be used in many areas of a person’s job. They can help with interpersonal teams, clients, customers, and between managers. Coaching in and of itself is a specific method/technique that can be used to guide an individual to new learnings in a dedicated time frame.

Coaching has specific goals:

Motivating and inspiring individuals to do more and work harder
Supporting clients in breaking down large goals into manageable steps
Holding people accountable to their commitments in order to produce results

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The Coaching Process

There is a specific process that a manager should follow in coaching. They should first start by assessing the skills, personality traits, and learning styles of their employees. Then they should define their vision and what the successful outcomes are. They should create an inspiring mission statement that will make an impact on team members. They should also establish annual goals with objectives to meet regularly.

During a coaching session, the manager should set the stage and determine why the coaching is necessary, then specifically define the opportunity or issue, then analyze the options and possible outcomes, and finally develop an action plan.

A manager needs to build trust with their employee at the beginning of the coaching process. They should ask open-ended questions to determine the best way to approach the issues and the ways in which the team members should be trained. Different employees may require different approaches. The manager should gather as much knowledge as possible about the situation in order to decide how to proceed.

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After completing the training, managers will be able to identify the four steps of a coaching session and how they are applied in various contexts, recognize the correct application of inquiry and advocacy in a coaching session, and apply basic coaching techniques for performance improvement, career development, and specific skills.

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Author

Tayna Longino

Tayna Longino is the President and Founder of HR Partners, an interview strategy firm. In this role, she has been helping clients develop competitive interview strategies for more than 25 years. As the Human Resources Director and the Director of Employee Relations, she has developed and trained on a variety of topics like diversity and inclusion, leadership styles, conflict resolution, organizational effectiveness, and workforce training and development. Her HR career spans several industries and specialties, including finance, IT, banking, specialty materials, pharmaceuticals, retail, and health care. She has been a global business partner to Bank One, Rohm and Haas, GlaxoSmithKline, Toyota Financial, and others.

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