Executive coaching helps in making effective managers stronger. It is observed that various coaching strategies and strengths have helped coaches to produce winning athletes in severe intense situations. There are five keys to success that will not only help coaches but also impact team organizations in a positive manner.

1. Five Tips for Coaching Top Performers
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Executive coaching helps effective managers become even stronger. The same can be said
of Olympic coaches and the athletes they coach.
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review looked at various coaching strategies and
strengths that have helped coaches produce winning athletes in intense situations. Thinking
of employees as athletes, five keys to success are identified as:
1. Help your “athletes” understand and learn to use their talents and skills in the work
environment. Allow them to be creative. When creativity is allowed, employees feel
free to use their interest and skills to develop a better product. Take the time to build
in space for creative uses of skills into different projects.
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2. Build a strong, transparent relationship with your mentee, to establish an open line of
communication with them. Honesty is key. Olympic athletes have usually had the
same coach since they were youngsters; even if they adopt other coaches along the
way, their original mentor and trainer is always there to support them on game-day.
3. For athletes, training is the most crucial part. They must be up to date on the latest
rules, techniques and competitor training habits and performances. The workplace is
similar. Push your employees to investigate new technologies, and encourage
attendance at training sessions, industry-relevant conferences and membership
organizations.
4. Athletes receive different types of support including financial, motivational,
nutritional, and more. Help steer your employees in the right direction and make it
easier for them to “win.” Steering may look like helping your employees find grants for
departmental team-building activities or building relationships with cross-
organizational teams. Steering may also look like hiring effective managers who will
appoint appropriate project leaders.
5. I found the 5th point to be the most compelling: managing the environment for your
employees. You know your organization and industry inside and out so give your
employees the perspective needed to help them create innovative solutions they can
carry with them to future leadership positions.
Have you seen this parallel between athletic coaches and workplace leadership? How did it
impact your team and organization?
Let’s share experiences. Leave a comment below, send me an email, or find me on Twitter.
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