Whether you’re a manager trying to develop your people or trying to develop yourself and build a career, you need to know that one of the key ways you can have a positive impact on the business is by operating more as a Coach.

A study conducted by Bersin & Associates showed that organizations with senior leaders who coach effectively and frequently improve their business results by 21 percent as compared to those who never coach.

Here are a few coaching tips:

• Don’t tell, Ask: Don’t tell the employee what to do, instead ask powerful questions. This will help employees to come up with their own solutions.
• Focus on your employees instead of their tasks — Coaching is all about employee development.
• Coaching is something that can/should happen as needed and in-the-moment, which is the best way for learning to occur. It’s a great way to reinforce what may have been learned in the classroom by capitalizing on those on-the-job learning experiences.

Your employees will be developed and challenged in way that truly builds new skills and enables them to learn from experiences.

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