While instructing "Leadership, Team-Building & Coaching Skills" public seminars for Pryor Learning Solutions this month in Pennsylvania, I heard a lot of attendee frustration on how to work with "problem" team members effectively. In this class, we discuss assessing team members' skills and attitude to determine how to coach individuals to capitalize on their strengths and develop their weaknesses within the team.
We re-framed the conversation to how leaders can coach teams to benefit from diversity in team members' perspectives and work through conflict, thereby producing better results as a team than could be obtained individually.
The four methods of leadership coaching that we discussed are:
- Relating to team members who have high skills, but poor attitude, to develop positive attitude to contribute to the team productivity.
- Training high-attitude and low-skilled team members to develop their skills, possibly paired to learn from high-skill team members that the leader is relational coaching.
- Counseling team members with low skills and attitude to determine how to address their training, personal and organizational issues making them a "problem" player.
- Mentoring team members with high skills and attitude to keep them motivated and empower them to develop into future leaders.
Effective team member coaching is the key to building a synergistic and highly-productive team. Leaders who understand what motivates each team member can effectively match individual goals with team and organizational goals. Contact us for training and consultation to develop your coaching skills and maximize your team's productivity.
As of this month, Rogers Consulting LLC and I transitioned from just national training to training internationally. I lead "Leadership, Team-Building & Coaching" and "How To Manage Conflict & Confrontation" for Pryor Learning Solutions on-site at Lac La Ronge Indian Band in Saskatchewan, Canada. There was snow on the ground in Canada and I happily came back to our warm Spring weather!
This is not the first time that I have trained on-site for a Pryor client, last month I taught a Project Management Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA. On-site training is even more valuable than attending a public seminar in that it enables more of your co-workers to learn and work together toward organization-wide professional development. You can request who you want to train for you and customize the topic to your organization's current situations. As a trainer, I always try to apply the training material to students' own lives for effective learning and application of course content.
I am happy to assist clients in planning training topics and formats. Feel free to contact me to discuss your training needs.
I just completed a month of training the public seminar "Leadership & Management Skills for Women" for Pryor Learning Solutions in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. In this class, we discuss:
- Myths & Stereotypes that still work against our society to keep women from achieving leadership roles
- Self-Limiting Behavior to reaching our best leadership potential
- Understanding Your Leadership Style to balance your strengths and weaknesses
- Understanding Others' Leadership Styles to work more effectively with others
- Developing Emotional and Executive Intelligence to lead ourselves and others
- Reframing Conflict as Opportunity to be seen as a leader
- Positive and effective Leadership Communication.
When I was first asked to teach this class, I thought "Why train just women when leadership and management skills development is vital for all leaders' success?" I learned this month that women have unique qualities and self-limiting behaviors that require specific coaching to realize how others hold us back and how we hold ourselves back unknowingly. Eleanor Roosevelt once said "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." In this class we work on not giving that consent inadvertently and being pro-active in our leadership development and learning.
Today is the last day of Women's History Month. Please share this post on your social media accounts to help us all work toward building each other up and developing our leaders for society's greater good, especially for the women in your life!