Research has shown that an external coach coming in to work with leaders provides an average 500% return on investment. A well trained internal coach will produce that every month.

I am frequently contacted by companies, who say “We put our managers through a 2 day introduction to coaching last year, and we don’t see any of them actually doing it. What is wrong?”

There are usually two things happening here.

First, coaching skills can come across to being in the first exposure, as a little woolly. Managers find themselves unsure of where exactly to start.

That is one of the main reasons why we pay so much attention to the role specific conversations we talked about in the previous sessions.

They have to be shown the frameworks for each of those conversations and practice the skills real-time in that context.

As a useful guideline for those of you who have been reading about coaching skills or have been through some preliminary training, consider this.

The old fashioned directive approach to managing people was to tell and tell and tell ; and usually wonder why nothing happened.

With your new coaching skills you tell (or train or teach) once, then coach them through the implementation of the new knowledge on the job.

So consider the effective start point of coaching as Guided implementation of learning.

Train once, Coach many.

This way you will have a practical start point for the conversations and application of the skill, and you will start to get considerable retrospective return on investment for all the training you have given your people in the past.

That will put a smile on your CFO’s face.

Imagine what performance in your organization would be like if everyone was actually doing all the things they have ever been taught.

The Profitable Leadership® app supports a coaching and feedback culture. 

Manager to staff interaction is easy and flexible.

Distance and time zones no longer get in the way of you being an effective manager.

Designed by a Master Executive Coach and IT useability expert, the app uses the familiar interface of in-app messaging structured within coaching specific frameworks.

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