I completely agree with you. Coaching is definitely a partnership & also more of a day to day activity.
Ryan
Coaching is more of an equal partnership. Involving the coachee in the process at a much involved level. Discuss the specific goals, show and guide the coachee, observe the coachee and then give feedback and listening all the time through the process. Coaching is more day to day then managing.
John,
Great approach. This illustrates what many of us have experienced in teaching, the more we teach the better we know the material ourselves.
Ryan
I tried a new approach for helping students who just can not grasp something by having another student not the best or smartest in the class to help me coach the ones having a real problem the end result was that both students improved and gained self confidence.
I find that if start off by saying what there are doing right they do not put a block. then talk about what could be done to make the prosess better it will be recived better.
I beleive you can get more out of an employee by positive coaching than managing an employee.
Great delineation between the two. Coaching is most powerful when it is driven by an honest concern for your reports.
Ryan
Good point that managing is more about guiding.
Ryan
Often it simply is showing them that we do care about their success that makes the difference.
Ryan
Managing is delegating and being responsible for getting jobs done. Coaching is making your reports more effecient and content by furthering their knowledge and skills.
Managing an employee is leadership guidence,
coaching an employee is showing that employee you care about there potential leadership and improvement
This often reels in a student that may not be putting his or her full attention to the subject. I've done this very thing and completly turn a student around and make that light go off.
David,
I agree that the two areas should naturally flow back & forth. I do think its important to distinguish between the two as this helps us develop both skill sets appropriately.
Ryan
In short managing an employee can be as simple as focusing a person were there talents lie to best utilise their skills for the better of the company and employee. Coaching an employee is more of a partnership or team environment. For me at least, most often managing and emplyee and coaching an employee lead back and forth to each other.
Great synopsis & distinguishing between the two Jill.
Ryan
To me coaching is giving suggestions to improve someones performance while motivating them to do their best.
Managing an employee is more of telling them what needs to be done to achieve a goal and be successful.
So true. When we come at coaching from this angle & demonstrate that we truly do care about the other person's success, we have a much greater chance of being successful with them.
Ryan
Tom I have experienced the same results form my students, I stated earlier many times I actually receive the learning form the student. This gives them a boost and helps them build esteme.
Keep up the good work
Marvin
We tend to look for the negative instead of the positive. When coaching someone on improving a negative behavior, I try to start with a positive comment or bring out a good quality first. Then we will discuss the issue and come to a mutual plan to improve. Then we will end on a positive note on another good quality. I try to give examples of my own issues in the past or things I struggle with currently to give the coachee a comfortatble feeling about the discussion. Try to help, not demean.
It makes students feel accomplished when we can use the ideas they come up with, even if it is only a concept, and make it work for them. Usually they might have a good idea, they just don't know how to get from point A to point B.
A good coach can learn from the students as well, and make their ideas work for them.
