Coaching
Can a manager be a coach? Yes but coaching demands the highest qualities of the manager understanding, honesty and objectivity as well as a willingness to adopt a new approach to his/her staff.
Become a great coach
What is coaching?
Coaching is not the same as mentoring. Mentoring involves a developmental relationship between a more experienced "mentor" and a less experienced partner, and typically involves sharing of advice. Mentoring is not a form of business coaching. A good business coach does not need to be an expert in all areas of the business he or she is coaching in. A coach does not give advice they ask open questions and listen.
A coach must be able to follow these principles:
- What motivates people must be understood
- Everyone is capable of achieving more
- A person's past is no indication of their future
- People's beliefs about what is possible for themselves are their only limits
- A coach must always provide full support
- A coach does not provide the answers
- Coaching does not include criticising people
- All coaching is completely confidential
- Listening is more important than talking
- Some people's needs cannot be met by coaching alone, a coach must be able to recognise this.
How can coaching help?
Within your business the following situations can benefit from personal coaching:
- A manager with potential who has been promoted and is having difficulty performing in the new role.
- An individual is being groomed for senior management and needs to gain skills or experience before they are able to make the move.
- An individual has relationship issues that are creating problems at an organizational level.
- An organisation has decided to align management behaviour to a set of core values e.g. integrity, collaboration or innovation. Some managers will need coaching in these areas.
- A new training program has been started and after managers have attended they need help to master and imbed the new tools.
What can you expect?
Our coaching program offers the manager the opportunity to experience coaching both as a coach and while being coached. And it provides a tool box and post coaching support.
A manager acting as a coach carries responsibilities not only as a business person in terms of the delivery of your services and goals but as someone involved in other peoples lives. It requires commitment and a genuine desire to see people do well for themselves and the company.
What are the benefits of receiving coaching?
Coaching helps build the managers awareness both of the business and themselves. This means being conscious, not being ignorant, having knowledge through observation and interpretation of what they see hear or feel. This means that managers are able to gather and clearly see the relevant facts and information. While helping them to see what their responsibility/contribution to the whole process is or could be. A manager with awareness knows what is happening around them and their self awareness allows them to understand and experience how it is influencing them. They are in control no longer dependant on being told lead or directed and are capable of adding true value to the work place. Training International can provide you with the coaches capable of helping you to fulfil your true potential and enable you and your company to climb free.
The next step
Companies have to make space and time to allow their people to develop and their people have to understand their company’s needs. The only way this can be done is in a partnership, backed up by good communication, trust, high levels of energy, and timely delivery against their promises. At Training International we always aim to deliver our services to you in the same way. Contact us and we can start to help you shape your future today.