Coaching

One of the most important, yet often-overlooked skill a manager needs to have is the ability to coach their team members. Yes, you need to make sure the project on your to-do list gets done with the help of your employees, but you also need…

You already know that as a good leader, you need to invest your time in coaching your employees to succeed. However, do you feel like you bring the energy and the motivation, but the results of the caching session are only subpar? (more…)

A manager is many things – an employee, a colleague, a supervisor, a friend and a coach. A coach’s job is to motivate and empower their team to succeed in whatever it is they set out to do. (more…)

Every manager knows that all employees are not created equally. There are your highest performers, those who are self-motivated, goal-driven and on top of their game, the employees that need a lot more help, and those in between. (more…)

While micromanaging has been proven in study after study to demotivate employees, the opposite of that is not leaving your staff to fend for themselves. Leaders need to find a healthy balance between managing their staff to empower them and looking over their shoulder every…

Training is a constant task for any manager; in addition to educating new employees about the organisation’s procedures, innovation and change also demand that existing employees be trained on a fairly consistent basis. What is frustrating for many employers is that traditional training sessions don’t…

Many organisations have mentorship programmes that help entry and mid-level employees to benefit from the experience of seasoned staff.  (more…)

Many people would probably say that having a mentor would help their careers, but few people actually have one. The value of a mentor cannot be understated, just as a value of a coach for successful sports players. (more…)

While not all managers practice this, part of their professional role is to coach their employees. While a manager does assign tasks and keeps track of due dates, she should also act as a motivator and teacher to the staff, encouraging them to do the…

Managers often wear many different hats at the job. Not only do they have to manage their own workload, but they need to also track the work of their underlings. A great manager takes it upon him or herself to coach employees to be the…

As a trainer and educator I’m in the learning business and in one form or another I’ve been in this business for over thirty years. During that time one thing has always puzzled me and I still have no definitive answer, so I wonder if…

There are some key differences between training and coaching. Training often involves giving people information and telling them how to do things whereas coaching encourages the person to think for themselves by asking them great questions. (more…)