Coaching Your Staff to Success By Cathy Abraham

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Coaching Your Staff to Success
By Cathy Abraham
Free powerpoints at http//www.worldofteaching.com
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but
the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
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5 Coaching Strategies

• Forge a Partnership
• Inspire Commitment
• Grow Skills
• Promote Persistence
• Shape the Environment

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1. Forge a Partnership

• Build Trust and Understanding
• so people want to work with you.

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Forging a Partnership

• Most Important when
• The person does not know much about you
• You dont know what motivates them or what they
  really care about
• The person is skeptical or cynical about your
  leadership
• The person risks losing something they value
  because of change

• To Strengthen your partnership
• Listen carefully to understand the persons
  interests, opinions, and concerns
• Clarify your expectations of each other
• Provide candid, yet tactful feedback
• Show the person how you have their best interests
  in mind and that those coincide with the
  centers best interest

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2. Inspire Commitment

• Build insight and motivation
  so people focus their energy on
  goals that matter.

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Inspiring Commitment

• Most important when
• People seem content with current level of skill
  and expertise
• People lose focus or get stuck in just getting
  through the day

• To inspire commitment
• Make sure people get specific, relevant
  information about performance
• Help people clarify their goals and values

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3. Grow Skills

• Build new competencies
  to ensure people know how to do
  what is required.

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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

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4. Promote Persistence

• Build stamina and discipline
  to make sure learning lasts
  on the job.

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Promoting Persistence

• To promote persistence
• Review peoples goals and ask about progress
• Set realistic expectations for progress
• Provide ongoing feedback that recognizes and
  rewards progress and efforts

• 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

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5. Shape the Environment

• Build organizational support
  to reward learning
  and remove barriers.

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Shaping the Environment

• Most important when people
• Complain that management does not support them
• Do not share learning or resources with others
• Express frustration about how difficult it is to
  learn
• Complain about lack of incentives to learn

• To shape the environment
• Publicly recognize and reward those who learn
• Demonstrate your personal involvement in their
  growth
• Establish processes or activities that promote
  learning from each other
• Provide rewards and incentives for learning and
  teamwork

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Leadership is not so much theexercise
of power itself as theempowerment of
others. Successful leaders lead by
pullingrather than pushing by inspiring
rather than ordering by creating achievable
expectations though challenging and rewarding
progress toward them. by Warren Bennis and
Burt Nanus