Title: 7 Tips for Coaching Employees to Improve Performance
Headings: 7 Tips for Coaching Employees to Improve Performance
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7 Tips for Coaching Employees to Improve Performance
Good coaching can be easy to spot, but hard to emulate.
How to Coach Employees at Different Levels
Level 1: Novice
Level 2: Doer
Level 3: Performer
Level 4: Master
Level 5: Expert
7 Coaching Tips for Managers and Leaders
1. Ask guiding questions
2. Recognize what’s going well
3. Listen and empower
4. Understand their perspective
5. Talk about next steps
6. Coach in the moment
7. Commit to continuous learning
This free handbook will help you learn practical ways to improve your emotional intelligence and have more productive coaching conversations!
Krista Brubaker

Content: It’s important for them to know you care enough to listen to what they have to say, so encourage them to share their opinions. Some employees will have no problem speaking their mind, while others will need a LOT of encouragement before they share an opinion with you openly. Once they do open up, be sure to respect those opinions by discussing them, rather than dismissing them. 4. Understand their perspective
When you’re coaching employees to improve performance and engagement, approaching things from their perspective, rather than your own, will help enormously with seeing the changes and results you want. Everyone has different motivations, preferences, and personalities, so if you ask questions to help you understand where their “why” comes from and what their preferred “how” looks like, then you can tailor your coaching conversations to align the way they work best with the improvements you’re both aiming for. For example, maybe you recently moved from an office plan that had lots of individual offices to a much more open plan, and one of the reps on your sales team has shown a drastic decrease in successful calls. If you start asking questions and find out that this is someone who is excellent in one-on-one conversations, but rarely speaks up in a group setting, then you can see how they’d feel like everyone is listening in on their call, making them less confident than when they had their own space. With that perspective in mind, you can work with them more effectively on how to get their numbers back up. 5.