Introduction

In sports, coaches encourage and enhance the talents and skills of individual athletes to contribute to a winning team effort. At the same time, the coach’s skills and talents are elevated to take on new, exciting challenges. It’s no different in business.

Becoming a good coach has both personal and professional rewards. A good coach can empower others to be more productive, achieve individual goals, and contribute to the company's vision. At the same time, an employee with good coaching skills is also on a journey of self-development; thus, they are usually more productive and effective, better able to work with peers toward common goals, and thus more promotable.

The Coaching Profile you are about to complete is designed to determine your current coaching strengths in four areas: Communication, Focus on Others, Approach to Work, and Risk Tolerance. Once you examine your personal tendencies in each of these four categories, you will have a baseline to work from as you develop additional coaching skills. This is not a test. There are no wrong answers. The more accurately your answers reflect your tendencies, the more useful the profile will be in helping you identify your “growing edge” as a coach.

The final part of this instrument will direct you through the development of a corresponding personal action plan for each category identified above, as well as an overall action plan.

As you develop coaching skills that encourage, reinforce, and constructively instruct others, you’ll be rewarded with more productive alliances and enhance your ability to impact change.

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