Coaching

Morning Leaders,

Coaching is an incredibly important activity for all leaders. It’s not about solving problems or providing advice for individuals in your team. It’s about developing their critical thinking in the here and now, and empowering them to find solutions within themselves.

Providing answers to your team is helpful in the moment and may seem a quicker way of dealing with the situation, but you are not developing self sufficiency or helping the individual unlock their full potential so they thrive when you are not around.

As the old proverb goes:

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Coaching is about asking great questions.

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

A coach should position themselves as a co-pilot, there to coach the individual, not the situation.

Try these disciplines to improve your coaching sessions:

➡️ Use the GROW model to ask great questions

➡️ Listen 80% Speak 20%

➡️ Actively listen to understand and not to respond

➡️ Let the person think, get comfortable with silence

Coaching your people will make you more effective as a leader. You will also nurture a humming environment of critical thinkers that think more creatively, feel understood and are empowered to search for solutions rather than feel satisfied with the way things are.

All the best

David

Resources Of The Week

Blog Post - GROW Model. As discussed above, the GROW Model is an effective and easy methodology for coaching.

YouTube - How to ask great questions - this 8 mins video will give you the best summary of how to improve as a coach. 5 solid disciplines.

TEDx Talk - Great Leadership comes down to only two rules - Peter Anderton’s 2016 Tedx talk in Derby, UK on the two important rules all great leaders need to follow.

Quote of the Week

“You can’t see the picture when you’re in the frame” - Les Brown

Hello, My name is David, I am a Tech Leader, Blogger and Runner from Hove, UK. Every week I write a Newsletter covering Leadership and Personal Development and anything else I came across which will add value to your journey and inspire you to take action.

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