6 Rules To Follow To Coach Your Team For Maximum Development

Coaching for development is as easy as watering a plant a couple of times a week.

All great players have a great coach. They rarely become great on their own.

Follow these six rules to coach your team for development:

1. Select, don’t coach if they haven’t bought in.

You shouldn’t want someone to grow and develop more than they do.

Don’t invest extra energy time into people who don’t want to grow. It takes 2–3x the energy to coach someone for development than results.

2. Ask, don’t demand.

Don’t give your team all the answers or tell them what to do.

Ask questions, so they think for themselves. For example, “If you knew the answer to your question, what are some possible options for this situation?”

3. Listen, so you understand.

Practice reflexive listening.

Take what the other person said and reflect it to them in your own language, cleaning it up as you repeat it. Another way to confirm you’re listening is to ask questions and repeat what you heard.