- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Coaching, Mentoring and Managing
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