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Performance Coaching<\/h1>\n

Strike the phrase “constructive criticism” from your vocabulary. Replace it with one of a great leader’s most important skills: “Performance Coaching.”<\/p>\n

“Performance Coaching” is the industry term for the strategic communication, feedback, direction, and support provided to others. Leaders who uses performance coaching when they interact their teams use most conversations to consciously communicate with employees<\/a>, deliberately using the conversation to guide future performance and development.<\/p>\n

The difference between “performance coaching” and “constructive criticism” is that performance coaching is a regular process that molds and encourages the type of behavior and performance you want your team to perform, while constructive criticism is typically an occasional correction to a problem.<\/p>\n

But even more importantly, performance coaching is a conscious effort to help employees grow into more successful and effective contributors. By adding performance coaching to your regular interactions with your employees, you’re creating a stronger, more valuable and more effective team.<\/p>\n

Immediate Benefits of Performance Coaching<\/h3>\n

Although performance coaching doesn’t always come naturally to leaders, it is a skill that can have lasting impact not only on the culture of a company, but also on KPIs related to efficiency, product or service quality, customer loyalty, employee engagement and retention, and more.<\/p>\n

Effectively performance coaching delivers four benefits that can create significant change within the company:<\/p>\n

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  1. Employees become better at problem solving and overcoming obstacles<\/strong> in ways that best benefit your company.2. Professional relationships become more positive and trusting<\/strong>, since your employees will never wonder where they stand and will feel comfortable and confident in their roles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    4. And, of course, performance improves<\/strong>.
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    What performance coaching looks like in action<\/h2>\n

    Learning how to coach for performance effectively provides massive benefits to your team members and company, but can be a difficult new skill to learn. Below are 3 ways leaders performance coach to drive team success, and 6 takeaway tips that you can begin implementing today to increase your performance coaching skills.<\/p>\n

    1 – Empower your team members to make decisions, but provide them the tools and resources necessary to succeed.<\/h3>\n

    Performance coaching shifts responsibility from the manager to the direct report. In one of our recent articles, Coaching vs. Directing<\/a>, we discuss how a successful leader doesn’t provide all of the answers and direction, but instead empowers his or her team members to use their creativity and skills to problem solve, learn, and overcome obstacles.<\/p>\n

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