Manila, 8 July 2020 — How to coach your staff in 5, 10, or 20 minutes.

Last week we looked at the rising demand for coaching in companies and organizations around the world, and we discovered the Three Coaching Traps. 

Meeting the Demand for Coaching

To meet the demand for coaching solutions, we’re on a journey to support leaders in using a coaching style in their conversations with staff, even if they are not professional coaches.

Some background helps. When you’re interested in growing leaders around you to boost performance, getting a feel for the coaching phenomenon is worth your time. To help you get started, here is an overview of Why Coaching Works.

Have you come across the Asian wisdom that the teacher comes when the student is ready? Well, that also applies to getting coached. It helps if your staff is ready, and we call that being coachable. You can read more about that in Are You Coachable.

3 Short Coaching Styles

Let’s now take a look at how you can use a coaching style when you’re time-poor. Can you believe that short discussions of just 5, 10, or 20 minutes with your staff can make a big difference to your team’s engagement, performance, and innovation?

That’s exactly what we want to see happening in workplaces all over the globe. Besides offering our professional services to coach leaders and their businesses on five continents through transitions, we have also set up the #Grow3Leaders community to help time-poor leaders coach their teams. This month, we unpack TAP Coaching and its three styles.

TAP Coaching is designed for time-poor leaders in the workplace. It can be you as the busy manager we discussed last week, or as an executive or project team leader. That’s where your skills and your staff’s level of coachability are the key to success.

In #Grow3Leaders, using a coaching style in your workplace is one of the 12 effective leadership behaviors that we learn and practice. If you want to tap this power, come and join us and you will discover the 3 short coaching styles and the 3 levels of coachability.

A Community of Leaders

#Grow3Leaders is an international and cross-generational community of leaders. You are ready to join and take on the Grow3Leaders challenge when you invite three colleagues to come with you and become influencers of positive change in your workplace together.

We learn and practice effective leadership behaviors together and ‘out loud’ to create positive change, including in these difficult times of dealing with Covid-19 and the new normals that are emerging. Joining us is free of charge—not free of commitment. If you have questions, reach out to me on LinkedIn to get a quick answer or to set up a call.