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Need More Time At Work? Spend More Time Coaching Your Team
You don’t coach your people because you don’t have time. Perhaps you don’t have time, because you don’t coach your people.
I have rarely met a manager that wasn’t swamped daily with meetings, emails, and fires to put out. If this is you, keeping your head above water is your primary objective day-to-day. Forget about being proactive, you can barely react to the unexpected, which occurs daily. This often requires early mornings, working through lunch, late evenings, and perhaps weekends just to tread water. Sound familiar?
You might expect me to suggest some time management training or to walk you through how to triage emails, say “no” more often, or provide some other “habit” that effective people do to get through the day. No, I’m not going to do that. What I suggest you do, that most managers do not do, but should, is spend more time coaching your team. I know…you don’t have time to coach, and it’s for that reason you need to.
In this blog, I will tell you:
- Why your team needs coaching
- Why YOU need to become their coach
- How to transition to a coaching culture
