Leader as Coach
Every employee deserves a competent manager who can bring value to their problem-solving and decision-making.
What is it?
Consulting and coaching with your leaders to develop coaching practices.
Why does it matter?
Providing coaching and feedback is a necessary activity in every manager’s day. A manager’s role is to add value to the decision-making and judgment of the people they manage. We all agree that coaching is essential, but why coaching matters may remain unclear.
What are the areas of focus?
While every leadership development process changes to meet your leaders where they are, the following focus areas are meant to share what will be accomplished and developed.
- Managerial-Leadership Communication: Listening for Values
- Coaching: bringing value as a manager
- Coaching for peak performance
- Building capacity for effectiveness
- Coaching underperformance
- Managerial authority: time span and accountability
- Bringing out the best in people
- Peer and team coaching: solving problems as a team
How will you make progress?
- Support people in mastering the complexities of their full role
- Assist in learning new skilled knowledge, such as policies and procedures, LOPs, SOPs, technology, the operation of machines, planning processes
- Explore how current actions and behaviors amplify or dampen corporate values and philosophy
- Assist in developing wisdom, including building on experience in handling challenging situations and sharing stories of failures and successes
- Smooth out behavior or negative temperament that may be damaging to the personal effectiveness of the work