Friday, August 08, 2008

Action Sales Management Coaching

  • Have your people set specific goals and connect with them regularly to maintain accountability.
  • Evaluate where people are at from a personal, and/or competency basis to assist you in developing them to their full potential.
  • Always leave people with action steps, goals and deliverables.
  • Use a template or formal tool for inputting, tracking progress, and generating feedback on the coaching progress.
  • Have a process of profiling and targeting those people who are ready to be coached now, invest coaching time with these people.
  • Provide quick focus sessions to problem solve and trouble shoot between regular coaching sessions.
  • Listen to truly understand others unique point of view.
  • Are you an effective listener?
  • ¨ Facilitate the process of problem solving with your people in coaching sessions instead of just giving them the answer.
  • ¨ Gain rapport and credibility with a wide variety of people that you coach.
  • Keep the conversation focused and on track.
  • Ask probing questions that get people communicating and sharing truth, challenges and fears that may be inhibiting them from succeeding.
  • Use and fully understand the applications of assessment tools and processes as a coach.
  • Ensure People finish a coaching session with re-energized, focused and committed consistently
Colly Graham
www.salesxcellence.co.uk/