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Coaching Employees: A Framework For Success
Boost Performance And Productivity While Reducing Employee Turnover
This proven success plan guides you step by step through every aspect of coaching employees.
In 90-minutes or less after reading this Blueprint you'll be able to identify who needs coaching (and why), develop coaching plans for your employees (in a way that isn't a time suck), gain commitment to improve (not just compliance), deliver penetrating coaching in the most effective way – and finally, how to measure success.
In this Blueprint, you’ll discover:
- How to get your employees who think they don’t need coaching to “want” it – and not just go through the motions because they “have to.”
- How to decide when and what type of coaching is needed – and how to fit it into your always busy schedule.
- How to deliver coaching in a way that isn’t preachy, criticizing or that makes employees feel like they’re being disciplined.
- How to sustain improvements from your coaching so the employee doesn’t drift back into bad habits or poor performance.
- How to measure the effectiveness of your coaching – from the employee’s perspective and your own.
5-Part Universal Coaching Framework
- Why coaching is NOT the right solution for all employees or every problem – and the thinking exercise you can go through to decide what approach to take (including the 5 core reasons for coaching)
- Customizing your coaching to the 4 types of employee coaching situations
- How to get the timing right – and when to use event-based coaching vs. calendar-based coaching
- The only style of coaching that works with today's employees
- 2 great starter questions to kick off any coaching session (these help open the employee up to receive the coaching)
- How to create "want to" when someone is reluctant to accept coaching or believes they don't need it (and the underlying reasons employees feel this way)
- The fine line between coaching, criticism and discipline – and how you can balance encouragement, praise, teaching and performance improvement messaging with precision
- Prolong improvements outside the coaching moment or session with the right type of follow up (that doesn't micromanage)
- 3 frameworks to measure coaching success: the turnover measure, the 5 statements test and the four levels of success
Critical Coaching Requirements For Success – Skills, Techniques & Insights
- The #1 coaching skill for managers – and how to develop it, sharpen it and put it to use for maximum results (warning: most managers get this wrong by doing the opposite of what this skill represents)
- 5 prerequisites you must have for any coaching initiative to be successful
- What exactly is coaching – and how is it different from management, leadership, mentorship and training
- The 5 excuses we make for not coaching our employees often enough – and how you can get passed them to improve performance
- It's not them, it's you – why coaching often fails because of the manager, not the employee (and how you can buck this trend)
- How to tell if someone is open to coaching and committed to change – of if they are just complying to appease the boss
- Answers to common questions, such as: one-on-one vs. group coaching, formal vs. informal coaching, mandatory vs. voluntary participation – and when to give up on coaching an employee
10 Coaching Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make
- This mistake is the root cause that explains why employees don't get better after coaching
- Being deceived by respectful obedience
- Missing the mark with your performance-based coaching
- Too many statements and lectures – not enough questions
- Why you shouldn't be talking as much as you think during coaching sessions
- Why you shouldn't be the coach for your employees all the time
- This mistake is the biggest blind spot managers have when coaching fails
- Thinking once in a while is enough
- Delivering one-size-fits-all coaching
- This mistake sets you and the employee up for disappointment after coaching
