6: The Importance of Making Time to Coach

I begin the episode by speaking about my first job out of school and revisiting our coaching definition from episode #2.

If you want to know what is important to people, look at their calendar and in their checkbook.

Why don’t we make time to coach?

• People don’t know the correct way.
• Perception that things take too much time.

I cited some of Larry Bossidy’s comments and lessons from the book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done.

Coaching takes time. Are you investing time into coaching? Here are four ways to get started:

• Contract with the other party on development priorities
• Plan out the schedule of when to meet and what to do – book it
• Follow-through on your coaching commitments
• Be flexible and yet consistent

You make life easier during review time as well if the above four things are done consistently. Make a commitment this week to do one of these things above.

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