Coaching Your Staff to Success

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Coaching Your Staff to Success

By Cathy Abraham

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Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

~ William Butler Yeats


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5 Coaching Strategies:

Forge a Partnership

Inspire Commitment

Grow Skills

Promote Persistence

Shape the Environment


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1. Forge a Partnership

Build Trust and Understanding

so people want to work with you.


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Forging a Partnership

Most Important when:

The person does not knowmuch about you

You dont know what motivatesthem or what they really careabout

The person is skeptical orcynical about your leadership

The person risks losingsomething they value becauseof change

To Strengthen your partnership:

Listen carefully to understandthe persons interests,opinions, and concerns

Clarify your expectations ofeach other

Provide candid, yet tactfulfeedback

Show the person how you havetheir best interests in mindand that those coincide withthe centers best interest


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2. Inspire Commitment

Build insight and motivation

so people focus their energy

on goals that matter.


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Inspiring Commitment

Most important when:

People seem content with

current level of skill and

expertise

People lose focus or get

stuck in just getting through

the day

To inspire commitment:

Make sure people get

specific, relevant information

about performance

Help people clarify their

goals and values


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3. Grow Skills

Build new competencies

to ensure people know howto do what is required.


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4. Promote Persistence

Build stamina and disciplineto make sure learning

lasts on the job.


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Promoting Persistence:

Most important when people:

Stay stuck in old habits

Make initial changes but slipback into old behaviors

Are reluctant to take risks or

try something new

To promote persistence:

Review peoples goals and ask

about progress

Set realistic expectations for

progress

Provide ongoing feedback that

recognizes and rewards

progress and efforts


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5. Shape the Environment

Build organizational support

to reward learningand remove barriers.


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Shaping the Environment:

Most important when people:

Complain that managementdoes not support them

Do not share learning orresources with others

Express frustration about howdifficult it is to learn

Complain about lack ofincentives to learn

To shape the environment:

Publicly recognize andreward those who learn

Demonstrate your personalinvolvement in their growth

Establish processes oractivities that promote

learning from each otherProvide rewards andincentives for learning andteamwork


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Leadership is not so much theexercise of power itself as the

empowerment of others.

Successful leaders lead by pulling

rather than pushing;

by inspiring

rather than ordering;

by creating achievable

expectationsthough challenging

and rewarding progress

toward them.

by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus

Coaching Your Staff to Success

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