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Coaching or Counseling? Choosing the Right Performance Coaching Method for Performance Improvement

When performance coaching, managers, leaders, and coaches today are faced with many different types of people to manage with varying opportunities for development. In order to see consistent performance improvement or employee development, a manger must be able to determine if the situation calls for coaching or counseling to improve upon the behaviors. The situation you are faced with depends on two factors: the employee's motivation and the type of behavior. For more on determining the employee's motivation see the article on the Hi / Lo Matrix.

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Coaching Skills are an essential part of Good Leadership Skills. At Coach 4 Growth, we strive to provide the essential tools for managers to use in Team Coaching. In a global economy, a company's people can be their greatest asset and taking the time to focus on employee mentoring and employee development will reap great benefits.

grow_leadership_skills_-_coach4growth.com Throughout Coach4Growth.com you will find helpful resources targeted to team coaching for people managers, leaders, sales managers and coaches. This content is not targeted to a specific industry but focuses on building good leadership skills and strong coaching skills that are transferable into any environment or organization. The fact that you are here, looking to expand your coaching skills and improve your team through performance coaching, employee mentoring, and employee development, is the first step to achieving a beneficial work environment that sees constant performance improvement and healthy employee morale.

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Coaching Skills

Coaching to Quality
Quality coaching discussions can be some of the most difficult to have. Let's explore how to approach these performance coaching sessions to acheive the behavior change you need.

Motivational Chain of Events
When your teams and employees are asked to deliver, they do not always have the motivation to accomplish the goal. Team coaching is simplified when the chain of events that they go through is understood and used to motivate them to perform.

Team Coaching

Investing Wisely in Coaching
Managing your coaching time and applying your coaching skills like you would your investments provides a more strategic approach to acheive a measured return on your investment.

Performance Coaching

Quality Performance Opportunity Coaching Strategy
Performance coaching is essential and having a strategy to approach team development is key. Using QPO, you can focus on coaching the right employees to acheive the greatest team performance improvement.

Coaching One on One
People need individual coaching. Do your employees get regular and consistent time with you, focused on their development? Let's look at how to leverage one on one performance coaching for individual gains.

Good Leadership Skills

Characteristics of a Leader
We all know what a leader looks like as we've seen it in other people, but do we all know why they're such great leaders? They all share certain characteristics that determine good leadership skills.

Emotional Intelligence
Do you know what your EQ is? Emotional Intelligence is a factor that sets good leaders apart from great leaders. Let's explore what this concept means and how to apply it with the people and teams you manage.

Managing Staff Performance by Coaching: The Coach Model for People Managers

Managing staff performance by coaching has gained in popularity in recent years, but how many people managers really understand what a coach looks like? Generally a Coach is defined as a person who gives instruction and imparts knowledge. Sounds a little like a trainer doesn’t it? Well, there are many similar qualities. Adult Learning Theory teaches us people learn in three distinct ways; Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic. Have you ever participated in training that took the time to use all three ways to learn?

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