Coaching Toolkit

Coaching Toolkit

The following toolkit has been developed by the Insitute of Personnel and Development.

Response coaching model
Managers will engage in coaching only when they realise that it is not just a “nice idea” but that it can actually benefit them. Half the battle is to help them see what a neat and simple technique it can be.

Exact goal-setting model
Many agree that a solution-focused approach is fundamental to managing in a coaching style, providing a target, aligning objectives and raising energy to enable the task to get done.

Coping with change
Whether it’s getting set for a new role, taking on a new task or coming to terms with the latest organisational shake-up, helping individuals to take change in their stride is a familiar coaching objective for managers.

Knowing when to coach
Managers emerge from coach training programmes equipped with new, as well as previously unrecognised, skills they can use. Their motivation is high; and then they return to work.

Building on success
Any coach worth their salt knows that coaching is essentially a developmental rather than remedial activity; a way to build good performance rather than punish for poor work. Here’s a chance to really put this idea into practice and feel the benefits.

Boosting review conversations
Reviewing progress is an important part of any manager’s role. One of the most well-known structured ways to do it is with the After Action Review.