Overview:  Coaching is an effective tool for managers to deploy in their efforts to assist employees succeed, and especially help employees increase their skills and their potential opportunities for promotions or lateral moves to more interesting positions.  Managers & supervisors need to be familiar with ways to provide effective supportive coaching to their employees.

The first step in any effort to improve employee performance is coaching.  Coaching is part of the day-to-day interaction between a supervisor and an employee who reports to him or her.  Coaching can provide positive feedback regarding employee contributions and alternatively can bring performance issues to an employee’s attention.  The goals of coaching include working with the employee to solve performance problems and to help employees who are already effective contributors improve and become even more effective contributors.

Areas Covered in this Webinar:  

• Identifying the skills your employees need to develop
• Steps to growing & enhancing your coaching skills
• Developing an inventory of employee strengths & development areas
• Identifying strengths managers can use to coach
• Focusing your coaching efforts
• Creating a coaching plan
• Symptoms versus the root cause of developmental issues
• Creating individual development plans (IDPs)
• Creating achievable goals
• Examples of development experiences

Performance coaching is a powerful tool when managers take advantage of its usefulness.  Join Diane Dee, President of Advantage HR Consulting LLC, on February 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. CST for this 90-minute live webinar to learn how to lay the groundwork for developing successful coaching efforts and then utilize that information to assist their employees and their organizations succeed.