Teaching your Team to Fish 🎣
Last week’s issue: Mastering the art of hiring exceptional talent.
Today’s Newsletter Suggestion:
Coaching is a critical competency as a leader.
It’s essential in developing your team and nurturing their potential. It’s also not just about them, if you want to be more effective yourself and be a better coach then you need to develop a deeper level of self-awareness yourself.
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Quick reminder, what is coaching and why is it important?
The best way to describe coaching I find is with this old proverb:
‘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.’
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This means rather than providing solutions or answers to your team for an immediate problem, ask them questions and focus on leading them towards solutions which they discover themselves.
It may be quicker and easier to give them solutions yourself but you’re not developing their self-awareness or critical thinking which are the tools required to solve problems when you’re not around.
Coaching entails posing insightful questions and questioning entrenched beliefs that might hinder a team member's progress or impede action.
It's crucial to steer clear of "Why" questions and opt instead for open-ended inquiries beginning with "What, Who, When, or How" to sustain curiosity.
The GROW model serves as a beneficial framework for navigating goals or challenges alongside team members.
A key takeaway is to concentrate on coaching the individual rather than fixating solely on the problem.
What does GROW look like in a Coaching Session?
Goal - Identify a specific Goal. Must be SMART so it’s measurable.
What do you want to use our session for today?
What does that look like?
How will you know when you have achieved this?
Reality - Identity what the current reality is, and where are they in relation to the Goal.
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