Performance Management

Coaching Skills for Managers: Assignments

There comes a time for “fieldwork,” where simply talking won’t trigger any more growth. One activity that many coaches use as fieldwork is writing assignments. These writings are not meant to be shared, but to build awareness and clarity. After goals have been set and options explored, your coachee will be ready to try out ...

Coaching Skills for Managers: The Skill/Will Matrix

All good coaches must assess where their coachees are in their development. You can’t just assume everyone wants to do what their job requires, or that people actually know how to do what’s expected. Learn how to coach people with different combinations of both skill and will. This builds out your coaching toolkit and targets ...

Coaching Skills for Managers: Using Assessments

Assessments are often used in the coaching process to reveal insights that lead to self-awareness. Assessments can help validate and shine a light on a person’s psychological makeup and behavioral tendencies. Used well, assessment data can help support goal achievement. This course will cover how to select and use an assessment with those you coach. ...

Coaching Skills for Managers: The Experiential Learning Cycle

Coaching isn’t about telling or even teaching, but it is about learning through action, involvement, and experimentation. Experiential learning is helpful to coaches who want to understand how people learn, experiment, and try out new behaviors. This course will demonstrate how coaches can better support their coachee’s experience to initiate real behavior change. Course Quick ...

Preparing to Become a Coach

Management is about getting things done through others, and coaching is similar. It’s not about you, it’s about guiding others in reaching their potential at work. But how do you know if you’re ready? You can probably guess what’s required for coaching – listening, questioning, and goal setting are a good start. This course will ...

Cultivate the Coaching Process

With coaching, you can’t expect results overnight, nor can you hold back the energy of goal-directed action. Pay attention to the phases and pace of the process so you can tend to what is happening in the moment. In this course, we take you through the main steps of starting the coaching process and the ...