To start with, they'll need a thorough grounding in basic coaching skills such as listening, questioning, evoking, clarifying,Products Fabric Manufacturers requesting, trust and rapport building, challenging, acknowledging, collaborating and action planning. As these are learned, practised and refined, they can be built on more. Being trained in coaching skills is the first step and the real learning comes from experiencing coaching for yourself personally and coaching others. Therefore, it's important that you don't just get trained in the basic coaching skills and leave it there. There needs to be a supportive structure and environment for you to continue with your coaching. How often have you learned something new, only to find when you're back in the workplace that you've only retained a little of it? Or that you're facing obstacles you don't know how to overcome? Managers need their own fully experienced coach to continue working with them after their initial training. This is where they'll dramatically improve their ability to coach and have confidence in themselves as coaches.Training your managers in coaching skills doesn't have to be done all at once and overnight. You can choose to start in a small way perhaps with only a couple of managers and as you experience the results, build on this. As you start thinking about training for your managers, I suggest you first find out what your managers really need to be effective; what they already know about coaching; what more they need to know and which of them already has a keen interest in learning to coach. Asking these questions of your managers will give you a clearer picture of what's needed. This may involve some time and commitment now, but it will ensure they get the training they most need. Knowing your company as you do, what's the most important action you can take today that will move your managers closer to being coaches?
