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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