Business owners are faced with many demands and with competing tasks that need to be performed and finished. Right. Now! We know. We also know that if you have a staff who is competent and engaged in your endeavors you need to work with them to provide coaching and encouragement and assurance that you’re all working toward the same goal. Your success is their success and vice versa.
To effectively coach your employees you will need to formulate questions and provide opportunities for your employees to engage. Empowering your staff– whether on site or virtual means providing them the tools to not only perform their tasks but to feel free to meet with you if they need resources or assistance.
Here are some ideas you may want to implement for your workplace coaching sessions: 
- Approach the delegation of tasks as an opportunity to offer customized opportunities for staff to show you what additional skills they may have.
- Don’t assume that your staff knows — or doesn’t know — something. Approach your meetings with an open mind and without assumptions.
- Make yourself available to your staff for regular meetings and phone calls and let them know when you have open office hours for anything that comes up between regularly scheduled meetings.
- If there have been major changes in the workplace or workforce, plan for debriefing sessions. These are also ideal once a major project has been completed. Talk about what worked, what didn’t and what everyone learned.
- Make certain your staff knows they have your blessing to do peer coaching. It has to be a two way street between the coacher and the coachee. This is a great way for your staff to grow and learn from one another.
How well-defined is your employee coaching? Do you think your employees need more, or less, from you than they are receiving?