and the department perks are all about.
Coach:
Exactly!
Ben:
I just don’t see how to add more into four minutes.
Coach:
No problem, let’s talk about some ways right now.
Hypothetical scenarios can be fun and enlightening,
depending on the situation. A word of caution, however:
Such scenarios can also sound childish or insulting to
highly professional mentalities. You must make that call.
In any case, scenario development is nearly always best in
a group setting where individuals can interact and not feel
as if they are being graded by their responses or put on the
“hot seat.”- Reports on progress
A popular method to verify understanding of your
directions is written or verbal project progress reports.
These can be as simple and informal as daily or weekly
coffee meetings where you casually discuss job flow. Or
they can be as regimented as submitting forms at specific
project points or job phases. Monday notes is one way to
follow the actions of your people. Each Monday morning,
employees can e-mail or give you a short, concise list of
accomplishments from the previous week. A report might
use the kind of outline on the following page:
Coaching, Mentoring and Managing3
Scenarios tend to
work best in a
group setting.