#309: Why You Should Learn the Skills of Coaching, No Matter What Your Role

Introduction

In today's "People Skills" newsletter, we're featuring 10 videos on one of the key skills in the management of people: coaching.

Coaching is a widely-misunderstood concept as it is associated more with sports than business. We admire successful sports' coaches for their skill but rarely do the same for business coaches. As a result, we under-rate one of the most important soft skills around that, if recognised, valued, and applied well, could make a huge difference to you and your professional success.

So, if you are in a team, whether as team member or leader, and are tasked with helping others, you need to find time today to look at these videos on coaching and learn how it can benefit you, your team, and your organisation.

01. "A Coaching Session from Hell!" from Michael Brown

Coaching is an activity that not enough people engage in at work. Managers don't see coaching as being part of their job, and too many people think that you have to be an expert to do it. They also think it is akin to rocket science and you have to be part psychiatrist, part counsellor, to do it well. In this short clip, Spencer Holmes demonstrates how NOT to coach someone. ...

02. "The Grow Model Framework" from MindTools

GROW is a simple but effective framework that helps your coachee understand their challenges properly, and identify what their next actions should be, in order to reach a solution...

03. "The Grow Model" from MindTools

In this video, we explore a simple but effective four-step coaching framework called the GROW Model, which can help you to structure your coaching and mentoring sessions with your team members.

These four steps are represented by the GROW acronym, which stands for:

? Goal.

? Current Reality.

? Options (or Obstacles).

? Will (or Way Forward)....

04. "Coaching in the Workplace" from CoachingMojo

Coaching is a conversation, - many conversations, - that move a person forward. Coaching conversations involve active, engaged listening...

05. "The GROW Coaching Model Explained" from MTD Training

Many managers, when coaching their staff, don't know where to start. Others do, but, when coaching their staff, it has no structure and therefore becomes a waste of both people's time. The GROW model aims to provide the needed structure...

06. "Coaching People to Change Behaviour" from Ed Muzio

Getting someone to do something different is tricky. People like to do things the way they've always done them and get defensive when you give them advice. If you want to get people to do something differently, here are six rules to follow that will help you...

07. "Using Dilts' 5 Levels of Learning to Develop Your Team" from Ed Muzio

Robert Dilts is an expert in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and his levels of learning model applies to many aspects of workplace development, including skill building, behaviour change, and the awareness of the impact of deeply held beliefs...

08. "How to Have a Coaching Conversation" from Conor Neill

There are 4 basic coaching questions:

1) what's up?

2) what's so?

3) what's possible?

4) let's go.

09. "Coaching the Uncoachable" from Bluepoint Leadership Development

Sadly, when speaking on the topic of the leader as coach, the first question I usually hear is not, "What is the most potent thing I can do to improve my effectiveness as a coach?", but, rather, "What can I do with the people on my team who are uncoachable?"...

10. "The Top 10 Coaching Mistakes" from Bluepoint Leadership Development

We all make mistakes. Even the very best coaches make mistakes. However, what distinguishes great leadership coaches is that they readily recognise their mistakes and make corrections...

What Next?

If you have worked through each video in this newsletter, you will now have a great set of materials to help you become a better coach.

And, with this as your starting point, you can now move ahead by using the learning resources on Manage Train Learn to develop your knowledge and skills.

With over 22,000 learning resources on our 6 websites, with 2 sites offering free downloads, you can now take charge of your own learning.

Simply commit yourself each day to learning something new from MTL and then, - when you fully understand it, - reflect upon it, practise it, apply it, and review it, and in no time at all, you will have mastered the skill with confidence.

Thanks for reading this edition of the "People Skills" newsletter and good luck with your ongoing learning.

Oh, and one last thing.

In the spirit of making the world a freer, happier and more enlightened place...

...please pass this newsletter on.

Thankyou!

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