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    The role of coach as a manager
    Ana McGary
    Managers often ask me how coaching skills can help them as a manager, after all isn’t it more about providing direction and correcting behavior. Providing direction or correcting behavior is very different from coaching an employee. Regardless of how experienced a manager is, he or she risks becoming trapped in the same old pattern of responding to issues and behaviors after the fact, especially when employees are experienced, long-term, and effective workers.

    The job of a manager as a coach is to help others avoid becoming stuck or too comfortable in the routine aspects of their work and falling into unproductive behaviors. The manager as a coach can help employees discover how to embrace growth and learning on the job. To become a coach is to motivate and develop your employees.

    But first you have to look at yourself. Begin to ask yourself questions such as:

    - What are my strengths and weaknesses. Ask your employees for anonymous feedback, but not if you’re not willing to address the weaknesses. More on this topic later.

    - How can you improve upon your strengths and challenge your weaknesses

    - In what ways have you yourself become too complacent

    - How do you stereotype your employees? When you do, are you limiting their ability to be better.

    Recognizing how you need to grow and develop as a manager opens the door to learning how to take on the role of coach in your organization.



     
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