Effective Coaching Skills

Coaching is a relatively new concept within organizations, but it’s been around for a long time. The best athletes in golf or tennis or track have coaches to help them improve and strive to be the best. Football teams, basketball teams, and hockey teams have coaches. There are coaches for voice or drama, and coaches who help people with job or life change. Why shouldn’t there be coaches to help people succeed in business?

It doesn’t matter in what field the coach operates; their key role is to help someone improve what they are doing. They do this by giving the person they are coaching regular feedback about their performance. They also help them develop a plan to improve their performance or build their skills. To be a good coach, you don’t have to be an expert in the field. You just need to want to help someone achieve. Many of the best athletic coaches were only average performers; in fact, the best athletes often don’t make it as coaches.

Companies and other organizations use coaching to do the same thing: help people to learn to develop themselves. The process usually involves identifying areas for improvement and then developing skills or competencies on the job or through informal or formal training sessions or college courses. Good coaching is therefore not about developing other people, but about helping them focus on their own development goals, and then helping them to achieve them.