Coach of Our Talent

One of our roles as a leader is that of being a coach who develops a strong team of contributors – talented individuals whose skill and experience and enthusiasm allow them to make a contribution to your team, your group or your community. In this seminar, we explore the essential qualities that those individuals look for most in a coach, and we coach you on how you can help them to grow.

It is our belief that one of the primary reasons we help people grow is so that they may assume greater individual ownership and responsibility for making decisions, taking action and following through. As such, we begin this seminar by examining your decision-making philosophy, and we offer you a framework to help you clarify or fortify it. The end result is two-fold: an appreciation of the situational nature of decision-making that will help you share and distribute ownership for making decisions with the members of your team, and an approach to help you anticipate how to grow their skills so that they may assume greater individual ownership and responsibility for making decisions, taking action, following through and making a contribution to the team, the group or the community.

We next focus our attention on you, the coach. We ask you to examine your own predisposition to be a coach. How well do you know each individual whom you lead and coach? What do you honestly believe about them and their potential? To what degree do you acknowledge their contributions? What is your intention in coaching them? Do you treat them with dignity and respect, consistently? The answers to these questions begin to reveal the caliber of your character as a coach, and the quality of the relationships you have with those individuals.

Next, we introduce you to and ask you to apply a practical framework for coaching individuals – for growing them and for supporting them. The coaching framework is series of questions to help you strengthen relationships and deepen the coaching conversation with the members of your team or group. It is applicable across a broad range of coaching situations: career planning, situational coaching and corrective feedback.

Finally, in this seminar, we explore the renewable source of energy that you can draw on to fuel the enthusiasm of the members of our team or group: the expression of your appreciation and gratitude for their contributions to the team and to the community.

At all points during this seminar, we ask you to consider the individuals on whom you count as team members and individual contributors as you examine these elements of the relationship between coach and team member. You will walk away with more finely honed skills as a coach and a champion for them.

Outcomes of Coach of Our Talent

You, as a participant, will:

Examine a framework that will help you to both clarify your decision-making philosophy, and share and distribute ownership with the members of your team in a way that will strongly engage their enthusiasm to take action and make a contribution
Explore the essential qualities that individuals look for most in a coach
Learn a practical framework for coaching individuals that will help you to strengthen relationships and deepen the coaching conversation across a broad range of coaching situations: career planning, situational coaching and corrective feedback
Practice applying the framework to a current coaching situation
Reacquaint yourself with the power of genuine expressions of gratitude and appreciation