How to Coach the Five Types of Negative Employees in Your Office
Easy to follow five-step coaching process to address the five types of negative employees that are in your office or on your team right now.
Improve How You Give Feedback – Tips From The Great British Bake Off
When you give your employees feedback, do so in a way that teaches particular skills that they can apply to a wide range of activities. When delivering feedback leverage the model used on The Great British Bake Off.
Help! My boss is ineffective. How do I coach my boss?
There are plenty of bad bosses running teams or departments. There are control-freak bosses, too-nice managers, bosses who specialize in theatrics, and of course, seagull managers. Unfortunately, the list goes far beyond those lousy boss traits and what these bad … Read more
Don’t Fail as a Leader – Start Coaching Employees off Your Team
If you aren’t coaching them off your team and to the next phase of their career, you are failing them and as a leader.
How Employee-Focused Coaching Delivers Better Results
Some coaches use coach-focused coaching, while others are employee-focused. Coach focused is dictating what needs to change and how to change it. Employee-focused coaching focuses on what the employee feels they need. It builds a deeper relationship and also helps … Read more
5 Ways to Be a Better Coach and Help Employees Achieve Their Goals
You can’t be a good manager if you aren’t a good coach. If you aren’t a good coach, you will fail at helping employees achieve their goals. Coaching is one of the most important jobs a manager has. Employees depend … Read more
Easy Tips for Managers to Inspire Employees
Many managers use endless praise as a means to inspire employees. Being liked to gain acceptance by everyone is another reason managers praise more than provide difficult feedback. When striving for a world-class company culture, this recipe won’t get you … Read more
The Best Coaching Question to Start a Coaching Session and Great Follow-Up Ones
I’ve had the pleasure of having great coaches in my career. The great ones have consistently done one thing in common. Their coaching sessions were driven by asking questions not giving answers. Coaches who ask questions rather than give answers … Read more
Why and How to Bring Empathy into Performance Reviews
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person’s thoughts, feelings, and condition from their point of view, rather than from your own. The best way to do this is to imagine yourself in their place in order to understand what … Read more
The Proper Way to Address Employee Concerns
Employee concerns have to be handled swiftly, and the lines of communication open. But employee concerns should be handled differently based on the type of employee voicing the concern. The three types are those who say nothing, those who say … Read more
4 Stupid Ways To Kill Employee Experience and How to Avoid Them
The employee experience refers to the totality of an employee’s experience working in an organization and the subsequent interactions that come as a result of that. Delivering an exceptional employee experience has many benefits. An exceptional employee experience is the … Read more
The Importance of Body Language – Coaching for Improvement Part Two
The amount of weight non-verbal clues have in our daily interactions is staggering. In Your Psychology Voice – Coaching for Improvement Part One, the focus was on your voice. The way you use your voice during coaching greatly impacts the … Read more