Coaching
Workplace Coach: Employee Motivation & Flow
Flow is what happens when we have a high degree of challenge (with a clear goal) while we also have a high capability of skills, experience and talent to succeed with that goal. Here are my coaching tips for how to motivate your employees.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: How Facilitators Can Help Teams
One of the greatest challenges facing most leaders today is how to maximize the creativity, quality, productivity and performance of their team. The good news -- help is available. There are professional team coaches and meeting facilitators that can bring in skills and tools to help people work together more creatively and productively.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: How a Coach Can Help Foster Dialogue
We pay a high price in business when tough subjects are avoided. Fearful employees walking around on eggshells are typically disengaged, unmotivated, and dissatisfied. As a team coach and facilitator, I try to help foster “dialogue” to transform this unhealthy dynamic.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: The Coaching Leadership Style
So what is coaching? Coaching is a collaborative partnership centered on achieving goals. The primary objective of coaching is to develop the person being coached. In a nutshell, it is a way of leading that supports, champions, guides and challenges an individual to maximize their potential and performance.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Resistance to Change
Change is a part of our every day lives. The pace of change is rapidly accelerating in workplaces. Companies simply must keep up with the constant marketplace demands of change if they are to survive, much less thrive in this economy.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Setting & Keeping Boundaries
Boundaries are the focus of many of my client coaching conversations. I think of boundaries as limits (or fences)—being able to know where I end (or where my work ends) and the other begins. Being able to set limits, having autonomy, decision making control and determining acceptable and non-acceptable behavior from others involves setting boundaries.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Workplace Stress
These are tough times for workers and leaders. No one is immune. So how can leaders keep up morale in these high stress times? I don’t have a magic bullet but I can offer some suggestions for leaders.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Great leaders learn how to coach
While most managers have the skills required to “get work done,” many lack the skills required to effectively coach others. But increasingly, managers are being asked to use coaching as a preferred management style and, as a result, are being required to develop entirely new skill sets. Learning coaching skills is a process — it [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Mastering feedback relies on the delivery
Closing the gap between goals and performance is a continual challenge for leaders. Mastering coaching skills can help close that gap. One of the most important skills to master is giving effective, and potentially difficult, feedback to others. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t born with natural talents in delivering challenging feedback, so some level of [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: There is a skill in delivering critical feedback
Delivering and receiving difficult feedback is a challenge we have all experienced. It can make even the most seasoned professionals uncomfortable and anxious. While it’s not easy pointing out problem areas with someone you work with, it can be even more troubling to hear you’re the one with the problem. Delivered well, feedback can result [...]
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