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Characteristics of an
Effective Coach  

Coaching is a key tool for developing your people to their full potential. 

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A great coach helps their team discover and develop solutions.

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Coaching is about performance and an effective coach needs to develop a variety of skills. 

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Before we look at the skills a coach needs, let’s take a look at some of the traits, or characteristics, of an effective coach.

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Effective coaching depends on a number of elements, not the least of which is effective communication, so as well as having a positive attitude towards your team members you need to not be easily annoyed or get angry.

To make a difference and help your people to realise their full potential – and after all that’s the primary purpose of coaching – a great coach needs to be:

  • Empathetic

  • Credible

  • A good listener

  • A good observer

  • Trusting and trustworthy

amongst other things.

Managers who coach are advocates of their people, give praise when its due and deal with poor performance in a straightforward way. 

They treat each team member as an individual.

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Coaching in business is not unlike coaching in other walks of life.  Sports, personal, life, business and other coaches all have the same set of characteristics.

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How do you stack up in terms of what makes a successful coach?

Use the worksheet and list what you believe are the top ten coaching qualities – what you think are the most important characteristics of an effective coach.  And then give yourself a score out of 10 for each of them.  Consider printing out copies of the worksheet and asking your team members to do the same. 

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