10 easy-to-use Coaching Skills tips for managers, available to download. Give them a go!

1. Coaching Skills
By Martin Haworth at Coach Train Learn
Extracted from the 110 brilliant tips to be found at:-
‘Super Simple Success Tips – Coaching Skills’
1. Ask Good Questions – questions that find out information, are just
as good for your employee as they are for you, so be curious and
ask.
2. Listen Very Attentively – paying full attention when others speak,
helps them process their thinking and shows you value their input
too.
3. Build Confidence – by expecting success and supporting when
things don’t quite go to plan you will encourage them to try on
more in the future.
4. Stop Fixing Things – let go of showing that you can - and help them
better find that they can – helping them learn more from their own
doing.
5. Encourage Risk-Taking – demonstrate personally that it’s OK to
make mistakes whilst stretching and learning from the challenges
they choose to take on.
6. Make Time – to show that you value them, they are important to
you and are keen to help them drive their own progress, your time
is invaluable.
7. Be There For Them – when they need help, support and coaching,
without taking the accountability for progress from them, you
encourage them even more.
8. Use Silence – to help them find their own solutions and not fill the
spaces with yours, an easy temptation. They learn from the silences
you provide in your conversations.
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2. 9. Praise Success – build confidence by showing that they are doing
well – and that you have been interested enough to have noticed,
building success on success.
10. Give Constructive Feedback – to help them learn even more as they
progress. Things won’t always be perfect and the learning is
strongest when it isn’t! The way you give feedback will dictate the
growth they achieve.
‘Super Simple Success Tips’ are a series of easy-to-use and implement
management and leadership development tools, for those serious
about developing their skills quickly and effectively. Inexpensively
priced and immediately downloadable, they are available here.
Other Titles in the Series
Management Development 101 Customer Service
Dealing with Difficult People Team Building
Delegation Skills Coaching Skills
Effective Feedback Managing Effective Meetings
Managing Performance Developing Your Employees
Employee Motivation Strategic Thinking and Planning
Succession Planning
Other Downloadable Products
How to Land Your Dream Job Succession Planning Toolkit
How to Win at Assessment Centers Super Successful Manager Program
© Martin Haworth 2010 - This material can be freely circulated as long as it is unchanged