Coaching Your Staff to Success By Cathy Abraham

Coaching Your Staff to Success By Cathy Abraham Free powerpoints at http: //www. worldofteaching. com

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ” ~ William Butler Yeats

5 Coaching Strategies: Forge a Partnership Inspire Commitment Grow Skills Promote Persistence Shape the Environment

1. Forge a Partnership Build Trust and Understanding so people want to work with you.

Forging a Partnership To Strengthen your Most Important when: partnership: The person does not Listen carefully to know much about you understand the person’s You don’t know what interests, opinions, and motivates them or what concerns they really care about The person is skeptical or Clarify your expectations of each other cynical about your Provide candid, yet tactful leadership feedback The person risks losing Show the person how you something they value have their best interests because of change in mind… and that those coincide with the center’s best interest

2. Inspire Commitment Build insight and motivation so people focus their energy on goals that matter.

Inspiring Commitment Most important when: To inspire commitment: People seem content Make sure people get with current level of skill specific, relevant and expertise information about performance People lose focus or get stuck in just getting Help people clarify their through the day goals and values

3. Grow Skills Build new competencies to ensure people know how to do what is required.

Growing Skills Most important when people: Have never had the chance to acquire a needed skill Need to upgrade their skills Are motivated but performance is still below expectations To Grow skills: Let them observe the skill being used effectively Connect people with training and resources Create opportunities that stretch people to learn something new

4. Promote Persistence Build stamina and discipline to make sure learning lasts on the job.

Promoting Persistence: Most important when people: Stay stuck in old habits Make initial changes but slip back into old behaviors Are reluctant to take risks or try something new To promote persistence: Review people’s goals and ask about progress Set realistic expectations for progress Provide ongoing feedback that recognizes and rewards progress and efforts

5. Shape the Environment Build organizational support to reward learning and remove barriers.

Shaping the Environment: Most important when To shape the people: environment: Complain that Publicly recognize and management does not reward those who learn support them Demonstrate your Do not share learning or personal involvement in resources with others their growth Express frustration about Establish processes or how difficult it is to learn activities that promote learning from each other Complain about lack of incentives to learn Provide rewards and incentives for learning and teamwork

“Leadership is not so much the exercise of power itself as the empowerment of others. Successful leaders lead by pulling rather than pushing; by inspiring rather than ordering; by creating achievable – expectations though challenging – and rewarding progress toward them. ” by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus