Having a coach can accelerate your progress in Creating Your Encore Career. While coaching and being coached is simple, it can take a lifetime to master.
What to Do When Someone Brings Up Issues To You
One aspect of caring is being able to help someone sort out a problem.
Just listen for 10 minutes and ask some questions that might help them to get more clear and find a path forward.
Helping people think through the problem is usually a better move – and that's essentially what coaching is.
The Simple Coaching Process
It's a simple process that saves you time while helping to develop others.
Effective leaders know how to think through issues.
One of the benefits of coaching is allowing people to think through their issues. But one thing missing in organizations is helping and teaching people how to think.
As a leader, coaching is an important skill set to transfer into your organization.
Important Things to Remember When Coaching
Keep on asking open-ended questions.
Coaching involves listening longer, and more deeply without giving direction or advice.
If you focus on the listening and focus long enough on the listening, people can really develop some interesting solutions.
Coaching involves revealing limiting perspectives that shape our thinking and action.
People can resolve their problems or issues or think about new possibilities if given the space and encouragement to think and talk about them.
As a coach, your job is to listen and not give advice – and that takes practice.
Helping people think through the problem is usually a better move – and that's essentially what coaching is about.
