Coaching Skills for Managers: Tools to get the Most from your Team!

Productive teams depend on committed, engaged employees, and engaged employees are 20 to 40 percent more productive than those who aren't. This coaching skills for managers webinar gives you techniques to engage and motivate your people.

Coaching for high performance, once dismissed as a soft skill, is now seen as an effective way to improve decision-making, project management and performance while lowering turnover.

You'll explore what engages and disengages employees, the six key skills of effective coaching and a five-step model for running a coaching session. The session also clarifies how coaching differs from mentoring, teaching and directing, and shares more than 44 questions that drive action and accountability.

• Tap into employee commitment
• Identify what engages and disengages employees
• Use the six key skills of effective coaching
• Run a coaching session with a five-step model
• Distinguish coaching from mentoring, teaching and directing
• Ask questions that drive action and accountability

• Tapping into employee commitment
• What engages and disengages employees
• The six key skills for effective coaching
• A practical five-step model for a coaching session
• The differences between coaching, mentoring, teaching and directing
• More than 44 questions to drive action and accountability

Many managers were promoted for their technical skill, not their ability to coach. Great coaches combine technical understanding, observation, communication and relationship-building, link them to what people need to improve, and hold people accountable.

This session suits team leaders, managers, supervisors, directors and coaches who want to lift individual and team performance, including their own.

• Team leaders
• Managers
• Supervisors
• Directors
• Coaches

Bob Verchota, SPHR, is the President and owner of RPVerchota & Associates, a human resources and management practices consulting firm. He has over 30 years of human resources and operational leadership experience. His most recent corporate assignments include serving as VP Support Services, VP of Ancillary Services and Human Resources, and VP Human Resources. Focus areas include organization change and employee development, talent acquisition, risk management, compensation and benefits, labor and employee relations, performance improvement, and other operational issues. 

Academic pursuits include an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, graduate degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA), and doctoral work in Organization Development EdD (abd). He has taught at the technical, baccalaureate, and masters levels in several colleges and universities.