Coaching Your Team

The Harvard business review (2014) states that you can’t be a great manager if you aren’t a good coach. In other words, you can only be a good manager if you are a good coach.

There are several benefits of coaching a team;

  • Strengthens bond between you and your team members
  • Your support encourages them to continuously develop their skills
  • Training boosts performance levels and helps employees to reach their peak
  • Feels satisfying

Coaching is a tool used for catalysing employees’ growth and empowering your team to take ownership over their learning. Coaching is a strategy that allows you to be supportive to your team and get actively involved with your employees. The results of these actions could be employee growth, employee engagement and employee retention.

As we all know, a team is formed by individuals, each having their individual strengths and weaknesses. A manager has to focus coaching individuals by using a different approach, in order to reach maximum performance as a team.

Some managers don’t believe coaching is something that is expected from them in their role/position so they fail to dedicate time to coaching and training their employees. However, leadership and management involves helping team members experience progress in meaningful work.

In sum, coaching your team enables you as a manager to enhance your teams’ capability and performance. The productivity of your coaching will determine the levels of engagement and trust exists between manager and employees.

Valcour. (2016). You Can’t Be a Great Manager if You’re Not a Good Coach. Harvard Business Review, 2014. Web. 12 August 2016.