Coaching, Mentoring and Managing: A Coach Guidebook

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  • Openly and honestly letting associates know what
    they are doing in relation to their own performance
    and the team.

  • Discussing performance in terms of their potential.



  1. Recognize and reward performance based on
    individual improvements.
    You enable this by:



  • Expressing appreciation for the work and the
    team member.

  • Calling attention, privately and publicly,
    to improvements.

  • Celebrating accomplishments.



  1. Establish a work environment that respects and
    facilitates individual responsibility and self-growth.
    You enable this by:



  • Establishing relationships with team members that
    honor them as capable and talented individuals.

  • Underscoring their strengths and achievements.

  • Sharing insights, success stories and resources.
    Notice how each ingredient emphasizes one approach more
    than another within the StaffCoach™ Model. Coaching sets
    expectations, mentoring furthers understanding, counseling sets or
    resets direction. All three roles involve, give feedback, reward and
    encourage self-development. High-performing teams are
    interactive and interdependent; these basic ingredients of
    StaffCoaching™ minimize the frictions and challenges.


Tools for Your Team ..........................................................................................


StaffCoaching™ gives your associates innumerable tools.
Consider: Your purpose is to improve performance in order to get
results for your organization. You get those results through
coaching, mentoring and counseling your people to achieve
greater performance. By adapting your approaches of supporting
and encouraging, energizing and instructing, guiding and

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