Leaders Should Ask for Feedback
There is always a moment, or two, when leaders question their impact. When this happens, they may consider asking a peer, or team member for feedback, however, more often than not, they don’t for a variety of reasons. Most of those reasons are usually based in fear. Perhaps a fear of looking bad, or inadequate,…
Manager as Coach: The Ladder of Inference
Introduction Have you ever found yourself wondering at how someone else interpreted something you said or did, and added a meaning to it that you had never intended, or even considered? Or perhaps you have found yourself enraged by someone’s comment or action, and concluded that they must be acting against you for some reason?…
Manager as Coach: Questioning Skills
Overview Gathering information is a basic human activity; we use information to learn, to help us solve problems, to aid our decision making processes and to understand each other more clearly, especially as managers with teams. Questioning is the key to gaining more information and without it interpersonal communications will never work. We find questions…
Manager as Coach: Learning & Coaching Methodologies
Overview Coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on the now, the future and on taking actions, inline with a goal, or vision, rather than focusing on the past. For a manager, it is very much intent on keeping your team focused on the vision and taking the actions inline with…
Manager as Coach: Coaching Skills – Part II
Coaching Skills Part II We continue in this article, to take a dive into coaching skills that we feel all managers should cultivate. Great coaches and managers tend to have a number of key skills, or tools they utilize, which are Coaches generally have high emotional intelligence: they’re good at understanding and relating to people,…
Manager as Coach: Coaching Skills – Part I
Overview What are the essential skills that a manager needs to coach their team? This blog will explore some key skills that you as a manager, can learn and utilize with your team. We feel it is important for all leaders to understand the basics of coaching. If you remember, our introductory page: Manager as…
Investing in Coaching – How it Pays Off for Leaders
Introduction Great Talent can make, or break a team, business unit, or an organization. Knowing this, we take time to interview, select, and hire the talent we need. We should also invest in retaining, engaging, and coaching the talent we employ. Did you know that study after study shows organizations that invest in leadership coaching…
Managers and Influence
For most companies, the idea of growing is exciting. There’s also nothing more dangerous to the founding tenets. That may sound odd, so let me explain. The faster or larger a company grows, the more there is to coordinate, manage and control. This is a stage of growth when inexperienced managers think they have the…