The most important quality for managers is being a good coach.
What does this mean?
Early in my career as a coach, when I told people what I do, they immediately made a connection to sports coaching and asked me what sport I coach.
There is an important link between sports coaching and executive coaching. In both worlds, the coach focuses on you and how to maximise your potential to achieve the best result. This goes beyond skill building and into overall caring for your wellbeing and development.
As a leader, you get to be a manager and a coach. Here’s what great coaches do…
Great coaches lie awake at night thinking about how to make you better. They relish creating an environment where you get more out of yourself so that you can experience more – more joy, more success, more impact.
How do we do that?
Sometimes by pushing you to do more.
Sometimes by challenging you to think differently.
And sometimes by encouraging you to slow down, do less.
It all depends on who you are, what you’re going through and where you want to go.
And when you’re ready to take the journey, I’m here to be your thinking, doing and accountability partner to create what you want.
Now, think of yourself as a leader, a manager and a coach.
How can you start managing your people like a coach?
Think of them as athletes.
Athletes need coaches that care about them – their success and their well-being.
You need to really know your people beyond who they are at work.
You need to take an interest in how they can develop themselves and their career.
And remember, athlete’s spend 90% of their time practising and 10% of their time performing whereas employees do it the other way round. They need to perform 90% of the time and land up practising maybe 10% of the time. How can you create the balance that enables your people to have enough practise time that allows them to really perform at their best?
When you’re leading people, your top priority is the well-being and success of your people.
That’s what it means to be a good coach. And a leader-manager needs to be a good coach.
Are you a good coach?
What is one habit you want to develop to make you a good coach (or an even better one)?
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