Creating a culture of team feedback, pushing employees to their attainable limits, and encouraging them to learn from others are all essential components of an effective coaching process. To ensure that your team is getting the most out of their training, here are 6 steps to review every time you're thinking about how you could improve your training practice. Whether it's an impromptu training moment or a formal training conversation, these are the five steps to effective training:
- Ask insightful questions - Asking open and deep follow-up questions is critical to helping create a safe, accurate and positive environment for training participants to open up, discover themselves and work effectively with the coach.
- Listen actively - Active listening is a key step in any coaching conversation and requires the coach to be comfortable with silence and view the situation from multiple perspectives.
- Appeal to the background - If the coach appeals to the player's background, he could speak the player's language and, therefore, motivate him better.
- Use the GROW model - One of the most famous training models is GROW, first explained by Sir John Whitmore in his book Coaching for Performance.
- Continuously reevaluate - To maximize your training potential, you must ensure that you continuously reevaluate your training skills.
- Discuss feedback - Discuss the feedback you receive with your own coach and create practical measures to make your coaching conversations even more effective.
By taking the time to review them regularly, you can ensure that your team is getting the most out of their training sessions.
