Effective coaching is a crucial ingredient to satisfied employees. It leads to improved performance, knowledge transfer, skill improvement and employee retention, writes Steve Taplin. His writing shares some results and specific elements to include in a coaching strategy. While his examples are specific to a remote employee business, the initial step of coaching, ‘invite employees into the conversation’ applies to most employment scenarios.
Source: Entrepreneur, September 12, 2021. Link.
The best leaders enable their staff to complete the job and learn from their mistakes instead of taking the job out of their hands. Rather, the leader will offer guidance and support through the difficulty, but they won’t take over the task.” – Steve Taplin
INSIGHTS: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1885