Grow Your Team By Coaching Employees – Build 5 Amazing Skills For Great Team Performance

04/04/24 • 13 min

Grow your team by coaching employees. There are so many benefits to investing your time to help your team members improve what they do and build new skills. Coaching your team is a great way to help build those trickier skills like people management and decision making.
I share employee coaching techniques for 5 high value skills to your employees that will make your job as a manager a lot easier.
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Coaching team members is not about telling employees what to do. Coach employees to get them thinking, to build their confidence, to come up with their own solutions. Coaching employees is a combination of listening, asking questions, challenging, and encouraging. How to coach team members starts with the goal of making them the experts.
Coaching team members good problem skills is amazingly useful to managers, as it takes some of the burden off their shoulders and helps the team work faster and get more done. Coaching team members to think through problems, consider options and create solutions with confidence.
Coaching employees for success must include helping them get comfortable with making increasingly difficult decisions. When coaching employees in the workplace start coaching them through the easy often made decisions and progress them towards difficult decisions where there is no easy choice.
When coaching your team members to improve team performance, gaining good project management skills is super valuable. Improvements and change are usually delivered through projects. Knowing how to organise, plan and manage projects, significantly increases individual effectiveness plus increase what a team can achieve.
I know that coaching team members to improve teamwork and their people management skills is a very effective approach. Telling them what to do is a very good starting point. To build skills you need to practice. Through coaching, the individual is much more likely to learn
Make time for employee coaching and mentoring. Doing so increases the motivation, skills and performance of your team as well as gaining a huge amount of respect and appreciation from them. Coaching your team to higher performance, I have found to be extremely effective in multiple teams in a wide range of companies. Make the time to coach your team.
If you have any questions on “Grow Your Team By Coaching Employees – Build 5 Amazing Skills For Great Team Performance”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.
Jess Coles

Enhance.training

Managing teams well is hard work, even when you know exactly what to do. When you have been left to figure things out by yourself, getting good at your job is ten times harder and slower.

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6 Ways To Get More Recognition At Work - Clearly Stand Out At Work

Get more recognition at work by learning how to communicate the benefits your work gives to your boss and colleagues. When you make the value you create clear and memorable, you really stand out at work and get a lot more recognition.
I share 6 ways to get more recognition at work and clearly stand out from the crowd.
How to stand out at work starts with doing the important things really well. You will have more work than you can do (unless you are very lucky). When you put more effort and time into the important tasks, activities and projects and less time into urgent but less important ones, you have a much better chance of standing out at work and getting a lot more recognition.
It is horrible not getting recognition at work, particularly if you are working hard. Hard work is not enough. Rather work hard on the really important areas and communicate your achievements to your bosses.
Second, for how to get recognition at work, it is really important to measure the impact of your work for the team and your boss. If you don’t know how much of an impact you are having, why should anyone else. Use financial numbers to quantify your impact to get more recognition in the workplace.
The third way to get more recognition at work is to link your results to team, function and business goals. Everyone should be focused on achieving these goals (and they are likely to be the more valuable work). Demonstrate how well you are supporting your boss and the team by clearly linking your results and output to moving the team closer to achieving goals.
Fourth, to stand out at work, you must market your work to your busy boss. This is super important. Don’t expect your busy and under pressure manager to be tracking exactly what you do and appreciate the value you are contributing to them and the team. Spell this out for your manager. Make it easy for them to understand your contribution.
Fifth, to get recognition at work, build relationships across the organisation and help others out. Making the time to do this massively helps your ability to do a great job, plus you know more people and are significantly more appreciated and respected. Reciprocity is a powerful group law. We share tips on how to practically build more relationships at work with those you don’t know.
Sixth, for how to stand out at workplace, communicate how you are a team player. Every business wants and needs lots of team players to be successful. Team players help others be more successful as well as being more successful themselves. You get a lot more recognition at work from clearly being at team player. No recognition at work happens to those that only look out for themselves.
If you have any questions on “6 ways to get more recognition at work - clearly stand out at work”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles

Enhance.training

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4 Brilliant Ways To Be Open Minded At Work – A Critical Career Success Factor

Being open minded at work, in my view is a critical career success factor, for any professional or managerial role. Being open minded means you learn faster, are more empathetic, build better relationships faster ... in short, open minded people usually do better jobs and are easier to work with.
I share 4 ways to be open minded at work and maintain an open mindset.
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How to be more open minded starts with your mindset and attitude. Our brains love patterns which creates a tendency to be closed minded. Feeling that you are right is the enemy of learning because you don’t look any further. The solution or approach you use doesn’t improve.
I share three different techniques to break this pattern – all critical ways to be open minded and keep becoming more open minded. Be more open minded to speed up how quickly and how well you learn.
Great managers work hard to maintain their open mindedness. They know that their teams have a lot to offer so being open minded allows them to maximise how they use the strengths of their team, which in turn leads to significantly better team performance. Use the exercises I share to develop a great attitude and see the best in your team members.
How to be open minded includes learning how to stop, consider, evaluate, and then make up your mind, even when you have an immediate solution. Being open minded is a necessary first step to enable you to constantly get better at what you do. If you are not open to what others offer or to better ways of doing things, how will you improve?
Be open minded by creating the habit of asking and listening. No-one knows everything. Nearly all of us rely on those around us to help us to do our jobs. We receive information, work and ideas from them as much as give these to others. We are a society of specialists working together so the group does better than having lots of generalists. Relationships, communication and relying on others are all critical.
Learn more, do a better job and get on with more people by asking a lot of questions and listening to what you are being told. This is a brilliant way of demonstrating your open mindset to your team and colleagues every day!
If you have any questions on “4 Ways To Be Open Minded At Work – A Critical Career Success Factor”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.
Jess Coles

Enhance.training