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Jan 8, 2021
Dan Rose, Content Creator at SkillPath
Today’s great business leaders don’t try to force the old management rules onto today’s diverse workforce. They don’t try to fit square pegs into round holes. Instead, they actively seek out coaching and mentoring opportunities with employees to lead their teams to success. It’s through mentoring that your most valued employees can realize their full potential and achieve great things for your company.
Today’s younger generation of workers, the Millennials, tend to give their loyalty to people (i.e., the leaders) instead of corporations, so taking on a mentorship role helps bring in and retain the fastest growing group of talent. Coaching people to be their best also dramatically increases employee retention. If for nothing else than simply because employees of every generation want to feel appreciated by their employers and are less likely to leave than those who feel undervalued.
Coaching, in simple terms, means to train, tutor, or give instruction. It is an excellent skill that can be used to enhance growth and performance and promote individual responsibility and accountability. Performance coaching is an ongoing process that helps build and maintain effective employee-supervisor relationships.
Mentoring and coaching are critical leadership and management competencies for many organizations today. Also, employees are asking more and more for coaching. True coaching improves employee and organizational resiliency and effectiveness in change.
Effective coaches not only accurately identify performance problems; they are proficient at developing solutions. While different people may have different coaching styles, certain behaviors have proven more conducive to creating a coaching atmosphere that will make a positive difference.
Preparation is vital to success when coaching employees. One of the biggest mistakes a manager can make is “just winging it.”
It’s a simple formula: A well-educated staff is a good staff. And the key to a well-educated staff is good training and coaching from management. Often, good supervisors overlook this vital part of their job and leave their staff to their own devices, struggling to learn through trial and error. Not only is this a huge time-waster, but it also doesn’t allow you to transfer the knowledge you’ve gained through experience.
Dan Rose
Content Creator at SkillPath
Dan Rose is a content creator at SkillPath who uses his experience from a 30-year writing career to focus on timely events that impact today’s business world.
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