Coach your team to success: Tips for Team Building Through Coaching

Coach Your Team to Success:

Strategies for Building Your Team and Making Every Player Strong

The Usual Ways

1. Survival: What teamwork? You're on your own!

2. Family: Teamwork is doing it the way that grandfather wanted it done!

3. Power: Teamwork is easy - just do what I say!

4. Establishment: Teamwork is doing it by the book!

5. Success: Teamwork follows the Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules!

6. Consensus: Teamwork is being nice to each other!

7. Systemic: You were team leader yesterday, today you make the coffee!

8. Global: If it doesn't save a whale - it's not worth doing!

Coaching is Different!

What is Coaching?

Who Has a Coach?

What Does a Coach Do?

Examples of Coaches

The Football Coach

The Golf Coach

The Life Coach

The Business Coach

The Manager Coach

The Employee Coach

The Coach’s Role

“A River Without Banks Is a Large Puddle”(source unknown)

Establish the Destination

Define Success

Set Boundaries

Motivate the Player/Team

Reward Effort

Discipline as Needed

The real difference in coaching is about

believing in someone and then taking action to help that person be his or her very best.

Vision + Communication = Leadership

Aim for the Bull's-eye

Make Sure Everyone Sees the Target

Make Sure Everyone Knows How to Hit the Target

Vision is Not an Idea, It is a Destination

Leading People Means Putting them In Motion

Movement Allows Adjustment

Willingness

Ability

All StarMotivated – Needs Training, support,

resources, practice, etc.

Capable – Needs motivation,

encouragement, incentive, etc.

Lost Cause

The People Development Process

Training = Providing the Knowledge and Skills Base to Allow for Success

Mentoring = Skills and Behavior Improvement Through Observation and Encouragement

Coaching = Leadership, Accountability, and Motivation to succeed

The Coaching Session

Coaching is both science and Art

Science = Understand the Past

Art = Coach For a Successful Future

Measure the Past

What Do You Measure?

How Do You Measure?

What About Bad News?

Impact the Future

Next Time

What Do You Need?

How Can I Help?

What is the Next Measure?

Rules for Coaching

Coaching is Regular and Consistent

Keep Time

Team Member Performance is the Focus

Initiatives Must Be Recorded and Tracked (Coaching Journal)

Every Initiative is There By Mutual Agreement

Roles and Responsibilities

Manager’s Role

Create the Agenda

Secure the Calendar

Lead the Discussion

Provide motivation, encouragement, perspective, advice, etc.

Team Member’s Role

Track and Monitor Success Toward Goals/Objectives

Prepare Measures and Reports Prior to the Session

Maintain the Coaching Journal

Coaching The Team

Communicate Goals, Objectives, Standards and Expectations.

What the Coach Believes Is Generally Self-Fulfilling

People Respond to What you Measure

Consistency is the first sign of integrity. (Victory if possible, Integrity at All Costs)

Attitude is Everything

Bad News Welcome Here (There is no such thing as a minor mistake)

Next Time is More Important Than Last Time

Expect, no Demand Excellence Practice is Required (But Don’t Practice Mistakes)

Regular Best is An Every Day Goal

Follow Up to Achieve

Be Ready for the Audible

Popularity is Temporary, Respect is Timeless