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New Managers - How Coaching Can Help

Guest post by: Harris Silverman

Article Overview: New managers face a variety of adjustments as they transition into their new role. Coaching can help them make that transition.

New Managers - How Coaching Can Help

Often when people first become managers, their first few months consist in part of a series of somewhat unpleasant surprises. Dreams of prestige, power, and influence slowly metamorphose into a very different reality.

The biggest shock facing new managers is often the fact that management requires a completely different skill set, and a whole different way of working, from those they were using before.

As individual contributors, employees generally work at their desks using skills in which they have developed some expertise, on deliverables for which they are responsible only for their own contribution.

As managers, they will spend most of their time interacting with other managers and client groups, as well as with subordinates, on projects in which they are mostly responsible for the work of others.

Furthermore, as managers, they have to engage in such functions as assessing and coaching their subordinates, observing how they work, and communicating with them about their work. They also have to exhibit a range of leadership skills, such as motivating others and defining a vision.

These are very different skills from those that allowed them to excel at the work itself when they were individual contributors. They are essentially people and interpersonal skills, as opposed to job skills. Since many individuals come into management unconsciously assuming that they’ll be mostly using the same skills that got them the promotion in the first place (namely their individual job skills), but at a higher level and on a wider scale, they often experience a psychological shock, and go through an extended period of adjustment and adaptation.

Management training courses of the kind that most large corporations offer new employees are very useful starting points in preparing new managers, but many managers can benefit greatly from more. On-going one-on-one coaching from an experienced coach is often a good idea.

A coach can help new managers by:

· clarifying the nature of their new function,

· teaching specific skills, such as giving feedback and evaluating performance,

· monitoring performance and identifying areas where the manager could improve,

· providing frequent feedback and insight, and

· addressing issues and concerns the manager may have.

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