Coaching for Results

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Coaching for Results
Pat Donini Employee Relations Director, Deputy
Director of Human Resources
Payroll Dan Taggart Employee Relations
Specialist
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Agenda

• Introduce the concept of coaching
• What does coaching mean to you as a leader?
• When to coach and when to seek outside assistance
• How to be receptive to being coached

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Questions

• What does coaching mean to you?
• Why was coaching used?
• What skills did the coach use?
• What made coaching effective in that situation?

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What is Coaching?
Probing
Evoking
Listening
Teaching
Challenging
Mentoring
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What Questions Do You Ask?

• What will happen if
• What are your other options?
• What support to you need to accomplish that?
• Where do you go from here?
• If the same thing happened again, what would you
  do?

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How Coachable Are You?

• Are you focused on the future or stuck in the
  past?
• Do you listen to the rationale for change or
  defend the status quo?
• Do your discussions revolve around intent to
  change and how to make it happen, or do you
  continue to debate the need to do so

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How Coachable Are You?

• Can you take an objective look at yourself and
  your actions?
• Can you let go of core beliefs and stories?
• Can you see the positive reasons and higher
  payoffs for change versus the cost of maintaining
  the status quo?

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How Coachable Are You?

• Do you partner with others to move forward?
• Are your intentions to change converted into an
  action plan, or do they remain a secondary
  priority?

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Hold em or Fold em?

• When should a leader coach?
• When should a leader seek outside assistance?

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Masons Workplace Coaches

• Workplace Coaching is a service in which a
  trained peer from within the Mason community
  helps faculty and staff address a workplace issue
  they are facing

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Masons Workplace Coaches

• Coaches are available to help you to
• Clearly identify the issue
• Clarify perceptions
• Identify desirable outcomes and options
• Develop and plan for a chosen plan of action

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Questions?

• Employee Relations
• Pat Donini- x3-4185 or pdonini_at_gmu.edu
• Dan Taggart x3-1275 or dtaggart_at_gmu.edu