Creating A Culture for Performance Coaching: Group Exercises For Your Team

Creating A Culture for Performance Coaching: Group Exercises For Your Team
Many organizations today are moving towards a culture that promotes effective Coaching Skills. Creating a culture within your organization requires more than just asking managers and employees to communicate with each other in a particular given way.

CMOE with over 27 years of experience and research in performance coaching has identified four application areas for you to consider when creating a culture inside your organization: The first application area in creating a culture involves learning and skill building. This specific area might include some of the following:

Teach Coaching Skills To All Employees/Refresher Courses
Consider the coaching knowledge and skill levels of your employees. Leaders should be trained in CMOE’s Coaching Skills Model, but CMOE clients have found additional value in extending the same training to many of their employees. When both parties understand the process, approach, and language of coaching, they can more effectively interact and synergize within the organization. Coaching should be a 360º process: Leaders to employees, employee to employee, and upward coaching.

"Lunch-n-Learn"
As a leader you might choose to sponsor a lunch-time discussion to share a coaching, principle, or other learning, and then elicit comments and discussion from the group. This is something that should be kept simple. Focus on one or two skills or topics at a time, and allow for free and open input and communication.

Telecoaching
One on one telephone or executive coaching for your leaders is something to offer those who really want to develop their skills to the next level. The process might include evaluation of strengths and weaknesses, personal action planning, ongoing support, and one-on-one training with one of our certified master coaches. With telecoaching or executive coaching, your leaders will get personal attention and will quickly grow their skills and capability.

Teach Back Opportunities
As a manager of a group of leaders you might ask your people to present, refresh, or summarize a key skill. This is something that can be done at the weekly meeting or on a monthly basis. Managers can also share real case examples and receive suggestions and input from other managers.

Reading and Newsletters
Newsletters are full of tips and advice on how leaders can improve their coaching skills and how these skills can be used to fully develop the potential of a team. This valuable resource reviews fundamental principles of effective coaching and leadership. It shares actionable ideas that can be implemented in daily situations and can be a monthly reminder to continue developing these critical skills.

The Coach: Creating Partnerships for a Competitive Edge is the first research based book written on the topic of Coaching Skills. It takes and in-depth looks at how to reinvigorate employees and gives a road map to develop coaching abilities.

Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Leading Edge of Synergistic Coaching takes and in-depth look at the world renowned Eight Step Coaching Model by CMOE. It helps individuals reap the benefits that come from productive coaching and relationships.

The above are just a few ideas to help develop a performance coaching culture. If you would like to learn about more developmental coaching, newsletters, or how to create a coaching culture, please contact a Regional Manager from CMOE. Toll free (888)-262-2499 or visit our website at www.cmoe.com