🚀 Manager as Coach Part 2: How to Empower Your Employees for Success

This week we’re talking about how to empower your employees and help them lead, versus directing them with what you expect them to do. This is part two of our Manager as Coach training series. If you missed it, check out part one here.

So let’s say for example, someone on your team comes to you with a problem to discuss. Rather than direct them or give them the solution here’s how to help them think critically and own their domain.

Help them consider possible solutions

In this next video, I walk through you how to ask your direct reports guiding questions, give them some breadcrumbs to follow and solicit feedback to gauge whether they have considered some options. This is to help them become the solution-minded. By discussing the problem, they will inevitably tap into their own ideas with you standing by wearing your coaching hat. Inevitably we can breakthrough to new creative ways to resolve an problem, just by talking it out with someone.

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Back to coaching your people think through problems on their own…

In this video, I’m sharing another three ways and missed opportunities that you as a manager or leader have to give direction and share your thought process.

I’m a big fan of hiring people who can learn the job even better than you. When you look back at a really great manager that you had in your life, what was it that you appreciated that made them so effective? Years from now, you may be the one manager that your team members recall when they share who their favorite manager was! That’s how paying it forward it works, right? : )

This is part two of a three part series. Enjoy this video and if it speaks to you, please share with your leaders and managers who may not have ever been trained on how to be a coach in the workplace or check out all our executive coaching programs and coach-the-coach programs here.