Coaching is a critical competency for leaders today. Leaders with practical coaching skills are better able to create a collaborative working environment, strengthen the engagement of their team members, and identify, develop, and retain high-potentials.

This roundtable discussion explored the skills you need to be a better coach, while also exploring how you can equip other leaders within your organization to become “leader-coaches” as well!

We’ll talk about:

• The role coaching plays in being a great leader
• How to adopt the right mindset for holding effective coaching conversations
• Recognizing coaching opportunities in ordinary day-to-day situations

These reinforcement methods can help accelerate the development of leadership thinking and behaviors.

Participant’s questions to encourage an interactive contribution of ideas:

Robyn Clark provided a PDF LeaderCoach job aid to share with some great tools to encourage interactive collaboration back at your workplace, including:

• What role does coaching play in your organization?
• How can your organization use coaching more effectively?
• What are the barriers to creating a coaching culture in your organization?
• Have you used coaching to resolve a current situation within your organization?
• How did it go?