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Key Management Development Secrets - Coaching Is Learning Through Challenge

Guest post by: Martin Haworth

Article Overview: There are times in any managers career when the pressure sets in and it becomes easier to fire answers out. We all have been there and appreciate that there can be days just like that. To minimize this, there's an investment to be made...

Key Management Development Secrets - Coaching Is Learning Through Challenge

We all want to be effective in our work and with a team to lead, we need all the help we can get. It's the role of a manager to face into these opportunities with a head held high as well as the energy to make progress Much of management is simply about building relationships, asking questions and listening, as well as helping others to help themselves, through the way we are with them.

And often as managers, it seems easier when faced with problems, challenges and questions, to provide the answers quickly and effectively.

If we've been doing the role for any length of time, it's likely that we have a ready menu of solutions that we have tried for ourselves and then tested out thoroughly.

Yet being simply a fixer will not last for long, especially in a business that is either growing or pretty large already. Even the best managers cannot withstand a high level of pressure consistently.

Despite seeming to be constantly busy, with very little spare time on their hands, really effective managers come up with a solution that does involve an investment of their time and then again, that's what they see it as, value-creating for the future.

Where your people seem to constantly bring you problems to solve, they do this because they know that you will do that for them - because that's their experience already.

And it's you that needs to stop them using you instead of finding and utilizing their own capabilities.

Here's where you really can help.

By spending some time with your people, using coaching skills to question and listen to them as they seek to find the solutions that they already have within them, you will evolve much more effective employees who will learn that they don't always have to knock on your door to resolve issues. They can do it for themselves.

Can you evolve into that? Quite a question isn't it?

The only person who can answer is you. Indeed, only you have to ask the questions of yourself as you catch yourself sighing over another pile of work that, quite reasonably, someone else could do - if you took a little time to invest in them.

Yet with an understanding of your own latent skills - and a little practice - you can develop your own experience and expertise to grow better employees - as well as free yourself up from doing it all.

And that is a return on investment that really is worthy of your attention.

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