Coaching to Employee's FAME

Maybe we have it wrong. Maybe we shouldn't train managers on how to coach their employees. Now for all of you that have read hundreds of my blogs, you must be thinking what's wrong with this guy? Has he gone crazy? But something has really struck me over the last two years that I think we all need to understand. No matter how good we become as coaches or how motivating or how good we understand our employees, ultimately coaching is about providing employees a choice. It's about positioning employees to make a choice to better their lives or their workplace performance.

There are four fundamental things that can affect an employee's ability not to improve their workplace performance, but to ultimately be coached by their direct supervisor or manager. We call it FAME, Feedback, Attitude, Motivation, and Engagement. Let's be honest. How often when we provide feedback, especially constructive feedback, does the employee focus on how we said it and not what was said? In addition, no matter what we do there are extenuating circumstances such as home life, financial difficulties, fellow employee relationships that can affect an employee's attitude, which is really their ability to overcome change and challenge. No manager should ever be 100 % responsible for motivating an employee when the employee has a responsibility for themself. Last, we hear the term engagement all the time and I love Kevin Kruse's definition when he talks about engagement using discretionary effort to go above and beyond the call of duty for the betterment of the organization and team. If we defined engagement to this level, ultimately isn't that an employee's decision?

The reason I wrote this is to really give us perspective. There are two sides to the equation when it comes to coaching and developing employee talent. It's the delivery and the reception. What if we started to train employees on how to receive coaching? How to seek feedback proactively? How to adopt strategies that developed their attitude positively and ultimately created self-motivation? Bringing the manager and employee into the coaching circle cooperatively is a valuable step!

Sign Up one or two or ??? of your employees for our FAME program- its $99 but we are offering a 75 % discount until March 1, 2017. The cool thing is the course has the employee complete a "FAME Commitment" form they turn into their manager. It prompts them to make four strong commitments in writing for improvement within the four areas of FAME: Feedback, Attitude, Motivation, and Engagement.

Register Here: https://progress-coaching-academy.thinkific.com/courses/employee-f-a-m-e-1 (the discount code until 3-1-2017 is: fame75 )