Personal Development:

Coaching

Improving Individual Performance

Reducing the Gap Between the Potential and the Performance of a Person

"Spectacular achievements

come from unspectacular preparation."

– Roger Staunbach

Reducing Interference

Interference creates a huge gap between the potential and performance. It is usually based in fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD)³. Interference crops up in many forms, but nothing gets in the way of peak performance more than doubt.¹

You can reduce interference by focusing your attention. When your attention is focused, you enter a mental state – the state of relaxed concentration – in which you can learn and perform at your best.²

Coaching – the New Managerial Task

Effective managers need to coach. Coaching aims to enhance the performance and learning ability of your employees. Coaching at work involves providing feedback, effective questioning and consciously matching your managerial style to the player's readiness to undertake a particular task⁵. The coaching approach, a generosity, born of maturity, opens the door to a new way of interfacing with your organization, and makes people want to follow your lead, accomplish your mutual goals. "The more you give in terms of coaching, mentoring, empathizing - the more you will achieve in terms of measurable business goals."⁴

Managers will find some coaching skills easy to integrate because they're either experienced in using them or they innately have this skill.  However, there will be skills that they find difficult to put into practice and they need their own coach to best support them with this.⁶... More