COACHING SKILLS –

     Good coaches establish trust and a rapport with the people being instructed. They should encourage with praise , build confidence with graduated experiences and give honest and constructive feedbacks.

A handful of tips to improve your business coaching skills

* Set goals

     Make sure your people know what is expected of them and explain the possible rewards for their achievements.

* Build confidence

     Graduated step by step experiences will build people’s confidence.

       Ask powerful questions.

       Get people to reflect, analysis and explore their own thoughts and ideas.

       Challenge groups to recommend solutions to problems, then seek the best solution.

       Listen hard to their answers.

* Give constructive criticism

     Any criticism should be helpful and constructive and given in a non- threatening manner.

* Reward achievements

     Rewards from learning should be more earnings.

* Use new skills as soon as possible

       New skills must be put into practise soon after they are learned or people become frustrated.

       Encourage with praise, build confidence with graduated experiences.  Give honest and constructive feedbacks.

–Geoffrey Moss(mossassociates.co.nz)

“Increase profits are the rewards of sound business coaching.”

SOURCE: “Training Secrets. Helping adults learn” 190p., Moss Associates. Ltd, New Zealand and Cengage Learning Asia, Singapore. Also available as an e-book from Amazon.com. Learn 49 ways to train and how to assess and improve your own training skills.

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